Submitted by: james french

The Visual Arts Department met in the Middle School Science Lab – art rooms were unavailable – and all were present.

We began be touching base as we always do, checking in on what work/projects are being done in each others classes. We talked some materials and practices/technique.  Woven into that discussion was an examination of how our students are responding to being back full time this year and what it looks like.

Following that we dove into the DEI work. After sharing a version of the “What does equity and inclusion mean for our subject area? What are your goals? How will you approach it?” document provided by Kalil and Mark. We did a fifteen minute free write to consider what work we are doing and how we want to move forward and share our results. After the free write we each shared things we are doing in our classes that are responding to the questions posed. We came to the conclusion that since our classwork and approaches are so different that we could each take individual approaches. We intend to share our practices and results in a digital collection that will allow us to share and borrow from each other.