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Asheville City Schools board holds ‘courageous conversations’ on race, links learning to policy review
Summary
Board members completed a facilitated session on isolating race in decision-making, reviewed educator-advisory feedback on policy 3,000 and agreed to draft updated mission/vision language; members debated whether the phrase “we commit to equity” is meaningful or needs clearer action.
The Asheville City Schools Board of Education opened its Dec. 1 meeting with an equity statement and a facilitated ‘‘courageous conversations’’ exercise focused on isolating race, then directed staff to draft updates to district policy 3,000 and the mission statement.
Facilitator Maggie, who led the exercise and provided handouts, asked board members to use the meeting’s ‘‘compass’’ tool and to focus their remarks on personal, local and immediate experiences when evaluating three advertisements chosen to surface racialized portrayals. ‘‘Condition number 2 keeps race at the center of your conversation,’’ Maggie said, urging the board to consider how centering race…
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