Racial and Educational Justice Committee

The District is committed to creating safe, caring, affirming, mutually respectful environments where all students, staff, and families are honored and valued for their backgrounds, identities, abilities, and strengths.

Members should be committed to:

• Serving a two-year term (you may re-apply after your term ends)
• Serving at a consistent rate (ie: attend at least 7 of the committee meetings)
• Meeting with your team between committee meetings as needed

We recognize continued learning and growth will happen during your time on this committee. We also believe it is imperative to be respectful of and about the minoritized communities that we serve. To that end, any member who is discriminatory, exclusionary and/or harmful to the minoritized voices within the committee or Northshore’s larger district-community will be subject to the following protocol:

1. The Racial and Educational Justice Department will informally investigate any harm that a committee member may have caused. 

2. The member will have the opportunity to repair any harm that was done. 

3. If the harmful behaviors continue, there will be grounds for removal from the committee.

In our first committee meeting of the school year, the Racial and Educational Justice and Whole Child MTSS Department will outline a range of projects and bodies of work that can be accomplished to continue to advance justice across our district community. This list will then be narrowed down based on member interest and teams will be formed through this process. 

To get an idea, the work that was done last year supported and extended disability justice and neurodiversity, gender identity, student belonging and safety, student voice and agency, pedagogy and instructional practice, and hiring and retention. 

The  Racial and Educational Justice Committee meetings will be held on the third or fourth Wednesday of every month from 5:00 - 6:30 p.m., beginning on Wednesday, October 28, 2026. The first and last committee meetings of the school year will take place in person. The rest of the meetings will take place via Zoom. Please note: all committee meetings are closed to the public.