DEI Plan: Mid-Year Update

As part of our commitment to “Mean Well, Speak Well, and Do Better,” the DEI Committee of the Board of Trustees presented a strategic plan at our Annual Meeting in June 2021. The plan outlined strategic goals in three areas: People, Program, and Policy - and together these goals provide a guiding framework for GUS DEI work over the next five years.

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Love is Letting Go

Growing up is hard. Skinned knees, monsters under the bed, clothes stained beyond recognition, childhood can be scary, messy, and sometimes painful. As parents, we cringe when they ride a two-wheeler for the first time. Full of pride and scared to death that they’ll hurt themselves. We buy goldfish, weekly if need be, to protect their young hearts from the pain of loss. We want them to grow up, but we also want to protect them. As someone who has worked with many families with children from pre-k through high school, I can attest that these feelings never go away.

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We Shall Overcome: Grade 3

In music class, third graders explored the long history of the song, We Shall Overcome. It is believed the song may have originated as far back as the days of slavery in the 1800’s, became an anthem for the civil rights movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s, and continues to inspire and unite those whole believe in the ongoing struggle fro freedome, justice and equality for all people in our nation - and across the world.

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Positive Leaders: Grade 4

In fourth grade, students have been learning about what makes a person a positive leader. They discussed leadership traits and simple ways that students can be positive leaders in school. They read biographies, watched videos and discussed the lives and attributes of leaders such as Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Gandhi, Roberto Clemente, Wilma Mankiller, and Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, Christine Darden (the mathematicians from Hidden Figures).

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Who is Gloria Richardson? Grade 8

This March, 8th grade students will travel to the Eastern Shore of Maryland for Service Week. In addition to brainstorming with the World Leadership School on how to protect the area’s important environmental resources, we will visit Cambridge, Maryland - home of the most important civil rights activist you have never heard of: Gloria Richardson.

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