Racial and Educational Justice Committee

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

Northshore School District’s Racial and Educational Justice Committee serves as an advisory to the Department and advocates for our community at large. The committee’s aim is to provide these stakeholders with support, guidance, and information to fuel equitable practices in the District overall. 

• Members should be committed to serving:

  • A two-year term 

  • A minimum of 2 hours per month 

  • At a consistent rate (ie: attending at least 6 formal committee meetings per year)

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 conduct an informal investigation on 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 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.