Social Justice

Students will respond to diversity by building empathy, respect, understanding and connection.

Students will develop positive social identities based on their membership in multiple groups in society.

Students will develop language and historical and cultural knowledge that affirm and accurately describe their membership in multiple identity groups.

Students will recognize that people’s multiple identities interact and create unique and complex individuals.

Students will express pride, confidence and healthy self-esteem without denying the value and dignity of other people.

Students will recognize traits of the dominant culture, their home culture and other cultures and understand how they negotiate their own identity in multiple spaces.

Students will express comfort with people who are both similar to and different from them and engage respectfully with all people.

Students will develop language and knowledge to accurately and respectfully describe how people (including themselves) are both similar to and different from each other and others in their identity groups.