Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Carrie's Corner
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Carrie's Corner
Ms. Leadingham is Monte Vista's Equity Liaison, leading our DEI work among students and staff.
SRVUSD HS PTSA DEI COMMITTEE
SLAM!
MVHS is proud to participate with Dr. Lori Watson in SLAM! (Student Leaders’ Antiracist Movement!)
SLAM! is designed to not just engage students in conversations about race, but to empower and mobilize them as catalysts for change through an anti-racist leadership youth movement. SLAM! participants deepen their personal racial understanding and elevate their racial consciousness as they develop the skills and tools to disrupt systemic racism within their schools, communities, and the larger society.
For more information, please visit Dr. Lori Watson's website.
SRVUSD VISION FOR EQUITY
The San Ramon Valley Unified School District is committed to nurturing and educating the whole student. Our equity leaders strive to interrupt any inequitable practices in school culture and curriculum and eliminate barriers to personal and academic success. Further, we establish each place of learning as an institution that validates and celebrates each student as an individual and as a part of a larger human family.
DISTRICT EQUITY WORK
Visit SRVUSD's Equity webpage.
Have questions? Contact Hong Nguyen, SRVUSD Director of Educational Equity.
BREAKING DOWN THE WALLS
MVHS proud to offer Breaking Down the Walls to students annually. This program helps students break down the social walls that sometime separate them from their peers, and build new connections across social groups.
For more information, check out their website
NO PLACE FOR HATE
SRVUSD & MVHS are committed to keeping our school free of hate, discrimination, harassment and bullying.
Click here to see SRVUSD's Nondiscrimination / Harassment / Anti-Bullying District Board Policy 5145.3
CALIFORNIA STATE LAW & POLICY
NATIONAL STANDARDS & CALLS FOR ACTION
- Social Justice Standards: The Teaching Tolerance Anti-Bias Framework
- National Education Association Ed Justice Site
- The National Education Association: Racial Justice is Education Justice
- Race and Schools: The Need for Action By Gary Orfield, Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles, University of California–Los Angeles
- Edutopia: Increasing Equity for All Students
- National Board Professional Teaching Standards:
- Standards Study: Equity
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS
Restrooms
You have the right to use the restroom of your gender identity without harassment or exclusion. Please speak to an administrator or campus safety monitor if you have any difficulties or concerns.
Locker Rooms
You have the right to use a locker room according to your gender identity. If you feel you need alternative accommodations to change in a room that is affirming to who you are, please speak to your PE teacher. If you experience harassment or exclusion in the locker rooms, please speak to your PE teacher or an administrator.
Names used on campus
You have the right to be referred to in class and on campus with the name that affirms your gender. You have the right to a Gender Support Plan to help support you in navigating this transition if necessary. Please speak to a counselor to establish a Gender Support Plan.
Pronouns
You have the right to be referred to by the pronouns that affirm your gender. You have the right to a gender support plan to help support you in navigating this transition if necessary. Please speak to a counselor to establish a Gender Support Plan.
