How to be an Anti-Racist School For the past year, we have been working to bolster and make our school-wide efforts on anti-racism more explicit. While Rock Point School has long been a place of inclusivity, with an inherent focus on acceptance and diversity, we realized that there is room to become more directly engaged in confronting racism as it occurs in our school, community, and country. During the 2020-2021 school year, staff and students participated in the anti-racism program called “Look Deeper: Race,” which consisted of six weeks of staff training, a documentary, and a facilitated discussion with students. This film and curriculum focused on the lives of five teenagers, each of whom was examining their own race and the role it plays for them. The curriculum allowed for staffand school-wide conversations and served as a launching pad for ongoing discussion and programming throughout the school year. Another major focus of the 20202021 school year was on the school’s history and the racism displayed by one of our key Continued >
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