Submitted by: Joanne Magee

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Peggy, Damon, Aedín, Carrie, Susan, Nick, Joan and Deborah and myself- Joanne attended.

Our department had an authentic, passionate conversation where we addressed challenges, feelings and attitudes around the DEI work in our subject areas. 

We agreed to create a document to answer the questions and to see which ones felt more connected to our line of work. We concluded that our focus includes: 

• What material we can/ should teach? 
• What material we can rehearse and perform? 
• How best can we serve the population of our students from grade to grade and year to year with inclusivity and equity?
• We addressed how over many years, awareness has evolved and that we have been and will continue to  focus on examining what we teach and how we teach it to better serve our students and our community.
• We addressed how we need to move away from “White Centrism” and we will continue to examine the content of our curriculum and make changes.