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Action Plan

Goal 1: Increasing DEI Awareness

Understanding and action for all constituent groups through leadership, governance, communications, enrolment management and human resources practices by recruiting two new board members from the BIPOC community and providing regular training and updates to the Board of Governors

Goal 2: Developing An Organizational Culture

Encourage advocacy, anti-racism and anti-discrimination and values the lived experiences of community members by establishing a DEI Working Group and Year 2 priorities; engaging our community in conversation about DEI at listening circles, student groups and clubs, Advisor sessions, and community circles; and launching NameCoach (name and pronoun recording software) for employees and students.

Goal 3: Building Employee Capacity And Leadership

Continued learning opportunities to foster classroom and school operational practices that are rooted in anti-racism and anti-discrimination education with a speaker series addressing anti-racism, anti-discrimination, social action, privilege, and allyship;

Goal 4: Building Student Capacity For Advocacy

Dialogue and anti-racism leadership across the school by providing new student leadership DEI training and support; establishing the Diversity Council; implementing an anonymous discrimination reporting tool; and supporting student-led co-curricular opportunities, networks and youth conferences.

Goal 5: Developing Metrics, Collecting Data And Reporting Findings

Enlist third-party firm Anima Leadership to conduct a DEI audit of Branksome Hall, featuring surveys and focus groups with key stakeholder groups. Our Principal and Head of DEI continue to report progress to the Board, Senior Leadership Team, Management Team and student-led Diversity Council.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We wish to acknowledge this land on which Branksome operates. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous peoples from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work and go to school on this land.

Setting the new standard for girls' education everywhere takes collective action. From all of us.
 
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