DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION, AND BELONGING

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) are essential components of La Scuola’s community. Each concept is woven into the fabric of the school.

THIS YEAR’S GOALS AND REALIZATIONS OF THE GOALS:

DIVERSITY

Strengthen cultural competency capacity for teachers, students, families, and Board to continue to learn and embrace La Scuola’s growing global community.

Equity

Provide equitable opportunities for all students and families to participate in La Scuola learnings, events, and activities.

INCLUSION

Continue to develop a school with classrooms, programs, and activities that will encourage students and families to learn and participate together.

Belonging

Build a culture of being accepted, valued, and included within the La Scuola community. We identified diverse opportunities to bring La Scuola families together at each campus to connect and learn more about one another.

We Identified three Community Ambassadors to amplify the voices and needs of our growing campus community.

We expanded our Sliding Scale Tuition (SST) program to support Summer Programming.

Created specific DEIB events to meet the needs of the three La Scuola campuses.

We ensured that every La Scuola campus provides childcare services to support our families’ opportunities for participation.

We are conducting a campuswide survey to learn the needs of neurodivergent learners.

There were coffee chats, restorative yoga, artivism, and workshops, such as navigating essential conversations.

La Scuola has continued our partnership with the SMART (Schools, Mentoring and Resource Team Inc) program. SMART families are in the lowest income quartile in San Francisco and more than 97% of SMART students will be the first in their family to graduate from college. Our partnership with this incredible organization includes giving these families access to the opportunities that a La Scuola education provides. We were thrilled to accept four SMART students this year!