Meeting Our DEI Goals Through Our Actions

Goal 1:

Increase DEI awareness, understanding and action through leadership, governance, communications, enrolment management and human resources practices.

• Build DEI as a core strategic pillar in Branksome Hall’s Strategy Refresh 2023

• Review and revise Board Governance policies and bylaws through a DEI lens.

• Distribute communications style guides as well as event guides.

• Enhance employee communications of hiring, harassment and job evaluation practices and policies.

• Expand our full-year onboarding strategy for new employees.

• Compensation audit and salary review for all staff positions.

• Create an admissions onboarding summary for new families.

• Annual review and expansion of our financial assistance program.

• Promote BIPOC scholarships to new families.

• Explore alum mentoring and network program.

• Solicit ongoing feedback from alum.

Goal 2: Develop an organizational culture that encourages advocacy, anti-racism and anti-discrimination

• Share school practices in DEI and course expectations at K-12 curriculum nights.

• Continued support for R.I.S.E, our Black Student Union, student affinity groups and DEI programming across JK-12.

• Host welcome events for new students and identify care support programming.

• Engage in DEI-focused learning and conferences with employees, students and parents.

Goal 3: Build employee capacity and leadership through learning opportunities

• Host gender expression and identity training for all faculty and staff.

• Design ongoing training, online modules and in-person professional learning opportunities for employees’ professional development program on anti-Black racism education, and Indigenous education.

Goal 4: Build student capacity for advocacy, dialogue and anti-racism leadership

• Support Boarding social events that are open to the community.

• Host DEI-focused student leadership conference for incoming school leaders.

• Support speakers that focus on anti-racism and anti-discrimination, social action and allyship.

Goal 5: Develop metrics, collect data and report findings that inform DEI priorities

• Review audit findings within Branksome, develop multi-year priorities and share audit survey findings on DEI website.

• Collect documentation for initial review of courses (course outlines, IB Scope and Sequence Documents) as part of the school’s Approaches to Teaching & Learning.