District staff outline equity audit actions, rollout of student/staff survey and restorative-practice pilot
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Summary
District presenters told the committee the equity audit will continue to drive strategic priorities, including a district-level wellness grant-supported survey (Search Institute) disaggregated by school site, restorative-practices training for a district cohort, and targeted professional development tied to audit recommendations.
District staff presented a status update on the equity audit and outlined short-term actions intended to translate the audit’s recommendations into practice.
The presenter (identified in the meeting as Mister Seaton) said the audit and the district’s strategic plan are tightly linked and that recent steps and planned actions include embedding the audit’s recommendations into ongoing professional development, implementing a developmental-relationships student and staff survey through the Search Institute, and sending a district cohort (representatives from each school) to a two-day restorative-practices training in March. The presenter described the survey as providing school‑level disaggregation that the district will analyze with external support so individual schools can use the results in their improvement planning.
District staff emphasized that the survey and the Search Institute work are intended to be formative and actionable (conducted early enough in the school year to inform interventions rather than only at year-end). The committee asked for follow-up updates after the small cohort has attended training and after the first round of survey results are available.
