Across all dimensions of its practice, ATLIS consistently demonstrates its commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive association.Diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at ATLIS have grown over the past several years. Conference sessions have broadened, and our virtual conferences in 2020 and 2021 each had its own strand of DEI & Tech sessions. In addition, ATLIS devoted the 2018 edition of the journal Access Points to the topic. In its 2021 Compensation Report, ATLIS began to track issues of gender and ethnicity with regard to school leadership structures and salary. ATLIS Reads has incorporated discussions of BLINDSPOT: The Hidden Biases of Good People and Race After Technology as part of its initial two years of programming. Even as conversations around DEI escalated during several seasons of racial reckoning in this country, the ATLIS Board had already focused its attention on DEI in relation to technology leadership in independent schools. In 2019, the ATLIS Board adopted a strategic plan that specifically led to the development of a DEI Advisory Committee that would work with the Board on equity issues. The DEI Advisory Committee's charter states: "The mission of the DEI Advisory Committee is to support ATLIS as it strives to be an organization where all individuals and independent school communities join together to support one another and work together to deliver the best educational environment possible for today’s learners." The ATLIS DEI Advisory Committee will assist and guide in:
ATLIS DEI ResourcesDEI: Understanding the Conversations
Must-See Video Highlights:
This session circles around the essential question: What do tech teams and their leaders need to understand about…DEI conversations in classrooms, DEI conversations at a systems or administrative level, DEI conversations from a cultural/historical perspective?
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Additional DEI ResourcesDEI & Technology, ATLIS Clearinghouse ATLIS 2021: Undaunted, DEI Programming from the ATLIS Virtual Conference Archive - DEI Summit: Conversations in Context “DEI Roundtable” published in the Fall 2021 edition of Access Points
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