Diversity
"Our Purpose: To Support the Inclusivity and Engagement in Union’s Culture by 100 percent of the Union Community"
Union Public Schools
To contact the DEI Council, email dei@unionps.org.
Objectives
- DEI Council serves as an advising/recommending group to senior leadership
- Supports Union’s core values to foster healthy relationships in a learning environment in which:
- All community members are highly valued.
- All community members are respected.
- Promote and advocate for opportunities for underrepresented members to support a diverse community at all levels
- Conducts analysis of the state of belonging of Union community
- Quantitative
- Conducts data analysis
- Qualitative
- Listens to experiences and expressed needs of Union community
- Quantitative
- Create Awareness of inclusive and engagement efforts
- Celebrate successes and happenings of belonging
- Address perceptions of community
- Identifies barriers to inclusivity and engagement
- Makes recommendations of action/initiatives to applicable leaders
- Monitor and report progress of inclusivity and engagement initiative recommendations
- Maintain and advocate for student, parent, and staff voice
- Assist in aligning district initiatives with inclusivity and engagement
- Remain organic and dynamic based on needs of community