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District highlights equity and inclusion rollout: bias reporting, staff PD and community affinity outreach
Summary
Equity and inclusion leaders described an expanding professional‑development program, a first full year of bias‑incident reporting, services for students experiencing homelessness, and new or reinvigorated parent affinity groups including a halal food pilot at ISB.
Shelly Reggiani, leader of the district’s equity and inclusion work, told the Beaverton School Board at its Jan. 28 retreat that the office is expanding professional development, community outreach and services to better center student belonging across classrooms and buildings.
Why it matters: Staff framed the work as a means of addressing predictable disparities in outcomes by race, language, disability and other student characteristics — an effort leaders said is essential for improving both academic achievement and student wellbeing.
Reggiani described the district’s “Engaging Equity” professional‑development series: six modules that in total provide roughly two to three hours per module and that are intended to build shared vocabulary, an understanding of bias, culturally relevant instructional practices and strategies to support belonging and student wellbeing. Staff said year‑two rollout will reach instructional staff, TOSAs and administrators and that the district plans further scaling to include classified staff, transportation, food services and public‑safety partners.
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