McDonogh School is a tapestry of diversity in all of its forms—race and ethnicity, 宗教, 性别认同, 性取向, 以及社会经济地位, 举几个例子. This diversity enriches our perspectives and makes us stronger, but it is just the starting point.
我们的校董会, 政府, 教师, and staff are committed to continuing to diversify our community while simultaneously sustaining and enhancing an 包容 environment where each member of the McDonogh family is heard and valued. We accomplish this by supporting a sense of belonging through a culture of dignity and respect.
We are dedicated to being a school where students are affirmed for who they are—where they learn the importance of having empathy for those who are different and seek ways to better understand themselves and the world around them. 我们通过LifeReady来做这件事, 我们的学术理念, which enacts the kind of critical thinking and collaboration students 将 need to work and thrive across lines of difference throughout their lives.
作为终身学习的支持者, we embrace the idea that true commitment to 股本 and inclusion is a continuous journey of action, 反射, 和再犯. It requires humility, perseverance, and truth-telling. McDonogh is ever ready for this journey.
McDonogh is dedicated to being a truly diverse and 包容 community.
The Board of Trustees is committed to the work of making sure McDonogh School is a diverse, 公平的, 包容性的机构. To that end, in July 2020, an 股本 Committee of the Board was established as a standing group. 这个委员会, 由迪·德拉蒙德主持, ensures open dialogue at the board level and helps to foster, 鼓励, and emphasize the importance of diversity, 股本, 和包容.
2020年夏天, the Administration created the 机构公平专责小组 to further explore and examine the School’s understanding of culture, 政策, 并从DEI的角度进行实践. The Task Force created three subcommittees to accomplish these objectives.
The Academic Excellence and Student Experience Subcommittee focuses on assessing the needs of the community and planning professional development and student engagement opportunities.
The 麦克唐纳声音小组委员会 is a group of McDonogh alumni historians and scholars working in partnership with internal staff to help craft programming aimed at addressing the school’s history and unique relationship to its founder, 约翰McDonogh. The group is also collecting oral histories from alumni throughout the decades, which 将 be included and shared as part of the school’s 150th anniversary in 2023.
The 院校公平小组委员会 is charged with assessing the operations and policies of McDonogh from an 股本 和包容 perspective and identifying areas of opportunity or improvement.
McDonogh supports affinity spaces and adheres to NAIS’s Best Practices on the rationale and purpose of affinity spaces. Several student, parent, 教师/staff and alumni affinity spaces have already been established.
McDonogh 教师 and staff attend regular in-school professional development around diversity, 股本, 和包容. In addition to on-going school-based professional development, 教师 and staff are also 鼓励d to participate in national and local conferences.
中学 and 上学校 students have the opportunity to attend local and national diversity leadership conferences to learn about themselves and the world around them as it pertains to diversity, 股本, 和包容.