Equity
What Drives Our Work?
CCPS Equity Mission
The Office of Equity is dedicated to elevating access and opportunity for all.
CCPS Equity Vision
Calvert County Public Schools will nurture a diverse and inclusive community where WE:
- Value and accept difference;
- Grow through meaningful diversity experiences;
- Teach and work in a culturally responsive fashion;
- Examine and challenge our biases, assumptions, world views, and institutional structures; and
- Seek to understand and abolish inequities.
What Guides Our Work?
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How Do We Understand Bias, Create Inclusive Environments, and Disrupt Racism?
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Equity Resources
Children’s Books: A Resource for Talking About Race with Young Children
The primary purpose of Raising Race Conscious Children is to support parents and teachers who are trying to talk about race and diversity with young children. The goal of these conversations is to prepare young people to work toward racial justice.
Speak Up at School
How do you respond when someone—a student, a colleague, even a parent—uses biased language or stereotypes in our system? This guide helps adults to develop the skills to speak up and helps students learn to speak up as well.
Learning for Justice
Learning for Justice provides free resources to educators—teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners to supplement the curriculum, to inform their practices, and to create civil and inclusive school communities where children are respected, valued and welcome participants.
Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain
This is a blog where we can get answers to our collective and individual questions about how we can help students become confident and competent learners.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Danger of a Single Story
Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice—and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.
No Place for Hate
No Place for Hate provides tools to address anti-bias and antisemitism in education.