Start the Conversation

by Prepare Your Community

You need this if you want to: Build shared understanding of DEI as well as issues of race, class, power and privilege among key stakeholders.

Key activities conducted by the DEI specialist may include:

Conduct workshops or other forms of trainings to help leadership, staff and board members build shared understanding of systemic inequities and enable reflection on how the organization’s work is affected by and perpetuates systems and structures of oppression.
Create leadership and team resolve to work towards addressing systemic inequities through your work.

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Retain and Advance Diverse Staff

by Diversify Your Organization General

You need this if you want to: Support diverse teachers and leaders to advance in their careers.

Key activities conducted by the DEI specialist may include:

Identify retention, advancement and compensation gaps between staff of different race/ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds.
Engage with relevant stakeholders, such as the leadership team, staff and board, to set clear time-bound retention and advancement goals.
Design and implement equitable professional development opportunities and other structures (e.g., standardized onboarding process, affinity groups, etc.) to support retention and advancement.
Revise and standardize staff evaluation processes (e.g., systems to enable managers and employees to track feedback and progress). Train managers on how to give performance reviews and feedback to mitigate bias.
Define clear and transparent principles for compensation and advancement decisions.
Develop a succession plan to achieve/maintain diverse leadership and provide growth opportunities to support development.
Develop processes and systems to track and review retention and advancement data and trends, recalibrating policies and practices as needed.

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by Infuse DEI in Your Culture

You need this if you want to: Infuse diversity, equity and inclusion across all aspects of organizational culture.

Key activities conducted by the DEI specialist may include:

Build staff capacity as leaders for equity and deepen their resolve to engage in issues related to race, class, power and privilege.
Examine the organizational expectations, values, norms and routines that influence how stakeholders interact with one another.
Engage with relevant stakeholders, such as the leadership team, staff, board, parents, students and community members, to develop expectations, values, norms and routines that are centered around DEI.
Communicate new expectations and articulate how these will be implemented and enforced.

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You need this if you want to: Support diverse teachers and leaders to advance in their careers.

Key activities conducted by the DEI specialist may include:

Identify retention, advancement and compensation gaps between staff of different race/ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds.
Engage with relevant stakeholders, such as the leadership team, staff and board, to set clear time-bound retention and advancement goals.
Design and implement equitable professional development opportunities and other structures (e.g., standardized onboarding process, affinity groups, etc.) to support retention and advancement.
Revise and standardize staff evaluation processes (e.g., systems to enable managers and employees to track feedback and progress). Train managers on how to give performance reviews and feedback to mitigate bias.
Define clear and transparent principles for compensation and advancement decisions.
Develop a succession plan to achieve/maintain diverse leadership and provide growth opportunities to support development.
Develop processes and systems to track and review retention and advancement data and trends, recalibrating policies and practices as needed.

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by General Prepare Your Community

You need this if you want to: Prepare board, leadership and staff so they are equipped to become DEI leaders.

Key activities conducted by the DEI specialist may include:

Provide training and coaching support to leaders and board members to deepen their understanding and commitment to DEI, equip them to lead diverse, inclusive and equitable teams, and build comfort in talking about systemic inequities and their impact.
Build leadership capacity to manage, support and coach their teams through the change process.
Build staff capacity and resolve to engage in issues related to race, class, power and privilege. Facilitate conversations on power and privilege that openly address current organizational dynamics and speak to the change required to achieve equity at the organizational and systemic levels.

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