{"id":1196,"date":"2021-02-09T03:43:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T03:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highlandscouncilpta.org\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2021-02-09T03:45:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T03:45:03","slug":"highlands-council-dei-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highlandscouncilpta.org\/?p=1196","title":{"rendered":"Highlands Council DEI Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Highlands Council is looking for parents, students and community leaders to be a part of the DEI committee.&nbsp; Cynthia Dickson, DEI Chairperson for Delevan Drive Elementary PTA has developed several initiatives to be addressed by the committee:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A <strong>HC DEI Guide<\/strong> that can be shared across member schools\/PTAs<\/li><li><strong>Cultural Interdisciplinary Calendar and Program<\/strong> that supplements class curriculum until holistic DEI curricula is achieved through legislation; local PTAs and districts may adapt to their local community needs<\/li><li>Work to Implement a District-wide and eventually Statewide <strong>funded distribution<\/strong> to classrooms of&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;1. FAIR&nbsp;Act Collection of Book Titles and<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;2. FAIR Act Instructional Resources\/Texts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Publish a Glossary\/Definition of Terms as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/highlandscouncilpta.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=ea7aa10ac96d6beb1f1a270da&amp;id=b41d74616e&amp;e=1b4e37deca\">DEI appropriate words\/phrases<\/a> to bring awareness to i<a href=\"https:\/\/highlandscouncilpta.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=ea7aa10ac96d6beb1f1a270da&amp;id=7dc738151e&amp;e=1b4e37deca\">nstitutionalized racism within the English language<\/a> and begin to move towards linguistic inclusivity.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are interested, please contact Anvi Kevany at akevany@highlandscouncilpta.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlands Council is looking for parents, students and community leaders to be a part of the DEI committee.&nbsp; Cynthia Dickson, DEI Chairperson for Delevan Drive Elementary PTA has developed several initiatives to be addressed by the committee: A HC DEI Guide that can be shared across member schools\/PTAs Cultural Interdisciplinary Calendar and Program that supplements&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/highlandscouncilpta.org\/?p=1196\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Highlands Council DEI Committee<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highlandscouncilpta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highlandscouncilpta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highlandscouncilpta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highlandscouncilpta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highlandscouncilpta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highlandscouncilpta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highlandscouncilpta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highlandscouncilpta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highlandscouncilpta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highlandscouncilpta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}