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Valley Stream District 30 was highlighted in the EDTrust Diversity Playbook (2018), for our encouraging boards to signal and embrace the importance of teacher and school diversity:

 

Addressing “Institutional Roadblocks” At Valley Stream 30

“Valley Stream School District 30 in Long Island works to ensure that diversity is not just a buzzword in a board policy, but a real reflection of its personnel.

When Superintendent Nick Stirling was appointed in 2012, the school board was already concerned about the lack of diversity among staff in the district. Fostering more diversity was part of the district’s strategic plan, but Stirling didn’t feel the district was doing enough to meet that objective.

Since then, Stirling has worked with the board to make sure issues of representation and inclusiveness are front and center. Since the board sets the tone for the rest of the district, Stirling said it’s critical that diversity issues are included consistently across a district’s strategic plan, mission statement, and vision statement.

“We revised our vision statement a year ago because we professed diversity but it wasn’t explicit in our vision statement, so we made sure to make it explicit because the vision statement lasts longer than the people in the positions,” he said.

The district also included diversity issues throughout its District Beliefs, including “Diversity should be embraced, appreciated and respected in curriculum, staffing, and educational philosophy.”

Stirling and the board also work to ensure that a focus on diversity remains a priority across district operations. Together, they have targeted what Stirling calls “institutional roadblocks,” such as hiring committees.

“If your interview committee is not diverse in itself, any diverse candidate who comes to sit in front of you, will question you,” he said. “You say you want diversity, but your interview committee is not even diverse so what message are you sending to the candidate?”

Stirling thinks these lessons are relevant for boards in all school districts. “It’s very important for a Board of Education to see the importance of diversity as a means to uplifting, upgrading, expanding opportunity for all children, regardless of demographics of a district,” Stirling said.”

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