Submitted by: Aedín Larkin

Present: Nick, Susan, Damon, Carrie, Aedín, Joan, Deborah, Kalil, Kristina (remote), Katherine (remote)

We took some time to acknowledge the changes and their impact on our department. 

We discussed how the meeting time for our department is not ideal as we can rarely all meet together after school due to rehearsals. Moving forward and thinking about next year we would like the administrative team to look at our schedules to see if there is a solution to this.

Individually we have been examining our curriculum for bias. Due to the lack of frequency in our meetings (the last time we met as a department was in October), it has not been possible to have a collaborative group discussion about the steps we are taking to de-bias our curriculum or the tools and resources that we use. We would like to think about how to have these discussions as a team in a more creative way.

For our next meeting, we will try to find a time that works so that the majority of us can attend. We will share what we have been working on individually and discuss the tools we have been using this year.  

We spoke about the summer working group and we will begin to think about and gather information to share with this group.