Roadmap for Advancing Branksome Hall’s DEI Action Plan

OCT 2023

Draft Action Plans Complete

FEB 2024

Share Multi-Year Action Plan with: Employees Students

Parents/Guardians Alums

Affinity Groups Clubs

APRIL - MAY 2023

Sharing the DEI Audit Findings with Our Community

Anima and Branksome Hall leadership will present and facilitate conversations around initial action planning. There will be several opportunities for staff, parents/guardians, students and alums to participate in these conversations. For example, departmentspecific conversations will focus on Student Experience, Employee Experience, Admissions, Communications and Branding. We also will host specific opportunities to engage the DEI Working Group, Affinity Groups, Diversity Council, Parents’ Association.

OCT - NOV 2023

Solicit Feedback on Draft Action Plans

OCT - NOV 2023

Initiate Values Survey

We are committed to sharing more details as they become available through the DEI newsletter, our Portal and website.

DEC 2023

Presentation of Multi-Year Action Plan to the Board of Governors

NOV 2024

School Climate Survey

With this comprehensive audit and the multi-year action planning that will flow from it, Branksome Hall has taken real and meaningful steps forward on our DEI journey. We now have an opportunity to demonstrate our commitment to further improving and growing our DEI outcomes by utilizing the audit as a launching pad for current and future action, rather than a summary of past experiences.

As we continue our work to identify and integrate DEI-specific skills within our curriculum, increase representation in hiring, support student and employee leadership in combatting anti-Black racism, engage in diverse community and educational partnerships, and make systemic changes, these actions will serve to benefit everyone in our community, building a strong sense of belonging and equipping our students and employees with the skills and awareness to recognize their role as advocates and allies as they move forward in their personal and professional lives.

We thank the students, parents, employees and alums who have shared their experiences. Your participation and insights have enriched the recommendations that have been proposed, many which are already being acted upon and are underway, and through which we will continue to make Branksome Hall a leading, globally minded school and a more inclusive, diverse and equitable place for all.