FACULTY DEVELOPMENT

Each year, Baldwin faculty and staff attend numerous local, regional and national DEI conferences, including the renowned National Association of Independent Schools’ People of Color Conference. In 2020-21, Baldwin expanded its professional development programs by partnering with various experts and programs that specialize in negotiating racial conflict and racial literacy in schools. Baldwin has provided regular workshops for all faculty and staff, programming for the Board of Trustees and a full year of mandatory training on DEI topics including bias, micro and macro aggressions, white fragility and research on the experiences of BIPOC students in independent schools.

Baldwin faculty also launched a Building Anti-Racist White Educators (BARWE) group, where community members meet monthly to discuss how to build anti-racist systems in our school context to fully nurture the social, emotional and academic well-being of all our students and support the professional wellbeing of colleagues.