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Leading for Equity
The Snoqualmie Valley School District’s mission is to prepare all Snoqualmie Valley students for college, career, and citizenship. To accomplish this, schools provide rigorous academic curriculum, career education options, a broad range of extracurricular experiences, extensive technology resources, and student support services, in a positive and safe environment. SVSD engages its community in ensuring every student achieves an excellent education, focused on preparing students for college, career, and citizenship. We value individual human differences and we commit to establish and maintain a culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion, and works to become anti-racist. The values of diversity, equity, and inclusion are inextricably linked to our mission, and we embrace these values as being critical to development, learning, and success. To fully realize our mission, it is imperative we recognize the institutional barriers, including racist policies, practices, and procedures that contribute to the pervasive, disparate educational outcomes of our school system.
Brief History of the Work
Collecting Thinking from SVSD Stakeholders
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“"The DEI Stakeholder Group provides administrators, students, and staff with the resources and knowledge needed to not only understand the value of bringing racial diversity, equity, and inclusion in our communities, but how it will be most valuable to our school communities." ”
- Ahlam Khaleefa, MSHS BSU President
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“The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiative that was launched last year by our Superintendent Dr. Manahan is a top priority for the Snoqualmie Valley School district Board of Directors. Two Directors, Ram Dutt Vedullapalli and I, are members of the team that are moving forward with this initiative. Additionally, all five of the Directors are looking forward to the actions that will make DEI an integral part of all that we do in our school district. With the upcoming retirement of Dr. Manahan, we would like to restate that our commitment to DEI moving forward will not falter. One of the recruitment criteria for Dr. Manahan’s successor will be the understanding of DEI issues and the passion and drive to see those issues tackled in our school district. Just this week, we communicated to our recruitment consultants that this criterion was non-negotiable.”
- Geoff Doy, Vice President SVSDBoard of Directors
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