Goals: To build a community cohort of youth leaders and learners To establish community agreements To build a group identity To learn about Black History To develop critical awareness and to apply this to real life situations… Read more »
Stop the Hate Campaign
District Stop the Hate Art Competition Winner, Lily Dantscher HMS The BSD The Office of Equity has launched a Stop the Hate campaign in the fall of 2021. Goals: To prepare a consistent district wide message… Read more »
We choose love and hope – Black Lives Matter Flag Raising at all BSD sites
Summer Racial Justice Academy
Summer Racial Justice Academy 2 Application Summer 2022 June 27-July 19 M-Th 10:30 am-3:30 pm@ Hunt Middle SchoolOpen to all students going into 6th-12th grade for the 2022-23 academic year.Application deadline is May 15th. “Racial Justice is… Read more »
BIPOC Affinity Spaces
BSD Office of Equity creates healing spaces for BIPOC students and staff “So, is this a safe space for us?” At BSD, we strongly believe in building supportive networks for ALL students. With the current racial reckoning… Read more »
Race and Equity Tour
As part of Superintendent Flanagan’s 100-day plan, a goal was set to “Visit key historic sites on the Vermont African American History Trail with family, Burlington School District Leadership Cabinet, city and state leaders.” Stop 1: Rokeby… Read more »
Elementary Counselors tackle Bullying and Harassment with an Equity Lens
How does anti-bullying and harassment work intersect with equity? School Counselors Liane Couture (Champlain) and Melissa Hathaway (EES) teamed up with Autumn Bangoura, Equity Instructional Leader to co-teach a six week unit blending the concepts of equity… Read more »
Hunt Middle School and Champlain College Students partner up to explore Beauty as Diversity
About this project: HMS 6th Graders and Champlain College students teamed up to explore the following essential questions: What is beauty? How is beauty socially constructed? How can we construct it differently? Enduring Understandings: Diversity is beautiful. … Read more »
March!
“We didn’t want to shy away. We didn’t want to hide anything or sweep something under the rug or in some dark corner. It’s real. We used the N-word. We had some discussion about it, but it… Read more »
