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Walpole director outlines student voice, equity-team expansions
Summary
The district—s director of student, staff and community engagement described classroom lessons on harmful language, new and active school equity teams, and plans to deepen family and community partnerships.
Naomi Austin, the Walpole Public Schools director of student, staff and community engagement, told the school committee she is shifting her work to emphasize student voice, classroom collaboration, staff professional growth and family and community connections.
Austin said she has been co-leading lessons on harmful language in upper elementary classrooms across the district to pair definitions and consequences of harmful language with student leadership concepts such as being an upstander. "One thing a student wrote: their voice matters and they can make a…
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