All educators need to deeply understand white supremacy, white privilege, and deep harm “whiteness” brings to students and team members.

As a result, the district will “require conversations about racism and white supremacy culture and train school leaders and ILTs to lead these conversations.” The pledge also shows support for the “Black Lives Matter” movement. The pledge explains that the district will change the curricula taught to students to implement this ideology: “Continue to engage in equity based revisions to our core curricula.” The pledge then states:

For all lives to matter, we must commit to Black Lives Matter, because in our educational system we have consistently left our Black Students and Black Team Members behind. Our actions and the impact of our actions have not been explicit in including Black Lives in All lives.

The pledge continues: “We challenge each of us to intentionally work to dismantle the current system which allows certain students to excel and others to perish.“

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