The 2020-21 District Equity Leadership Team

For the past three months, the District Equity Leadership Team has been meeting to provide a system where equity is the foundation of our district.  Another goal of this team is to help build capacity in all educators to become more culturally aware by embracing and acknowledging diversity to our growing population of diverse learners.  The team also strives to create more partnerships with families and community stakeholders to help meet the academic and social-emotional needs of all students.

Thus far, the team has created a definition of equity and what that looks like in our district.  The team has also created a social justice statement which is found on the Equity home page along with the definition of equity.  They are currently finalizing the mission and vision statement which will also be added to the district website.  

The District Equity Leadership Team is comprised of one representative from each school, a board member, two community partners and three SDW district administrators.  Below is a list of the members.  Be on the look out for more updates and announcements coming from this group.  

2020-21 District Equity Leadership Team

School	Team Member	Current Position
Banting	Jessica Harris	Kindergarten Teacher
Heyer	Melissa Tempel	Dual Language Teacher
North HS	Greta Voit	Physics Teacher
LPMS	Shelly Dohlby	Social Worker
Summit View	Darnell Wiltz	Phys. Ed. Teacher
Prairie	Erin Connell	Grade Teacher
Horning	Rebecca Jarolimek	Grade Teacher
Lowell	Michelle Creasey	Grade Teacher
Meadowbrook	Elaine Mazza	Special Education Teacher
Hadfield	Jen Theisen	Speech and Lang. Teacher
Lindholm	Demetri Beekman Jody Landish Dr. James Sebert	Director Assistant Superintendent Superintendent
Hillcrest	Samantha Holt	Teacher
Hawthorne	Omar Masís	Dean of Students
Whittier	Lauren Krolikowski	Special Education Teacher
West HS	Amy Menzel	English Teacher
South HS	Mitch Propson	Science Teacher
Butler	Katherine Plotkin	Teacher
East	Tiara Rogers	Principal
eAchieve	Kristin Knutson	Teacher
Bethesda	Crystal Fiet	DL Teacher
Rose Glen	Sarah Shumaker	Teacher
Saratoga	Becky Anderson	Teacher
Randall	Theodora Thompson	Art Teacher
SDW	Amanda Roddy	Board Member
Community Partner	Wendy Williams	SDW Alumni
Community Partner	Guillermo Contreras	SDW Alumni
Butler Middle School	Jaime Dobner**	Social Worker

EMLSS Update

Just a communication update on what our Equitable Multi-Level Systems of Support work teams are up to this week.

Theory of Action: Without deliberate improvement in instructional practice resulting in student impact, universal student performance in literacy will remain stagnant.

Scope of Work: 1) District coaching structure developed or revised as needed and used.

2) Coaching service delivery plan developed or revised as needed.

The Coaching Team brainstormed a list of internal and external stakeholders to communicate with throughout the process and began to research coaching practice profiles in order to develop a vision for coaching and to operationalize coaching.

The Training Team reviewed their scope of work and spent a significant amount of time identifying both internal and external stakeholders who the team will communicate with throughout the process. Next, the team will be brainstorming available and needed resources in order to effectively do the work.