Submitted by: Susannah Flicker
Agenda:
- Discussion/Share: What’s different about your role in your division this year? Is it a positive or a negative?
MS: able to function as learning specialists again, learning lab open, push-in and pull-out support
HS: “back to normal”
LS: struggling with restrictions to pull-out support, many students with low skills who need more support, but schedules/expectations aren’t allowing for learning specialists to work with them
2. Overarching goal of department work: go over the institutional DEI goals and talk about how to adapt this to our department and practice
3. Questions/ideas
4. MS shared notes from recent faculty meeting re Supporting teachers-doing a reset to start from a place of compassion, looking at students’ challenges as a need being expressed, acknowledging that everyone’s been impacted by the pandemic- teachers need support in differentiating, supporting executive functioning, etc.
5. For next meeting: gathering best practices that we feel promote equity and inclusion
6. Going forward: inviting Kalil to a meeting, meeting with students from the HS learning differences affinity group