Citizens for a Diverse Milton

Meeting monthly with MPS Superintendent to address issues such as:
- Improving diversity of MPS faculty and staff
- Proficiency gaps and district-wide strategies to address them
- Professional development of teaching and counseling staff
- Parent engagement strategies

Co-sponsor semi-annual Districtwide Meetings of Diversity Committees on topics such as:
- The impact on young students of implicit bias in teachers
- Academic performance and student engagement in extracurricular activities
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
- Recognizing and Respecting Students’ Gender Identities
- Local diversity committees’ successes, challenges and upcoming plans

Directly impact MPS hiring processes
- Maintain a specific focus on increasing District’s hiring of teachers and administrators of color
- Participate in hiring processes for principals, assistant principals and top administrators
- Advocate for exit interviews for teachers of color

Engage School Committee about issues affecting equitable academic achievement by all students
- Helped write and pass MPS Diversity Policy, one of the first in the state
- Monitor MPS Diversity Policy implementation including analysis of the annual MPS Diversity Report
- Meet individually with School Committee members and dialogue with full School Committee
- Monitor and advise the School Committee’s Cultural Competency Committee
- Supported MPS school budget in Prop. 2 1/2 override letter to the editor

Support MPS programs that support high achievement for all students
- Awarded $13,208 in diversity grants to teachers, librarians and other MPS staff to engage and benefit students in projects that help put CDM’s vision into practice
- Funded “Welcoming New Families Program” for new parents with limited English proficiency
- Pushed for Tucker School Pilot Music Program with MPS Music Department and Tucker staff
- Worked with Tucker staff, parents, MPS to increase Tucker students’ involvement in sports
- Encourage MPS to achieve diversity in school sports, music, drama and all activities

Assist in the development of school-based diversity committees in all 6 Milton public schools
- Developed and disseminated guidelines for school-based diversity committees
- Secured MPS agreement for school-based diversity committees’ role in hiring teachers & staff
- Support and participate in school-based diversity committees

Participate in civic activities that promote diversity, interracial understanding and equity
- Promoted Milton’s diversity during Milton’s 350th Anniversary Celebrations
- Supported “My Neighborhood: 350 Years Later” photo project celebrating diverse families
- Spearheaded local hub of “Milton Reflecting,” multi-cultural project among five Milton towns
- Promoted student-organized “50 Years Later: Why the Struggle for Civil Rights is Still Relevant”