• Affirmative Action to Ensure Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

    The Margate City School District Board of Education shall adopt and implement written educational equity policies that:

    • Recognize and value the diversity of persons and groups within society and promote the acceptance of persons of diverse backgrounds regardless of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender, religion, disability, or socioeconomic status; and
    • Promote equal educational opportunity and foster through policies, programs, and practices of the district board of education a learning environment that is free from all forms of prejudice, discrimination, and harassment based upon race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender, religion, disability, or socioeconomic status.
    What does diversity, equity and inclusion look like in the classroom? 

    Many educators already implement educational practices that foster inclusive environments. The following evidence-based practices can be leveraged to meet the requirements of the Diversity and Inclusion law: 

    General Resources

    • Center for Educational Equity
      This library of resources from Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium offers educational equity research, resources, webinars and best practices to assist educators in understanding a wide range of topics related to educational equity.
    • Project READY: Reimagining Equity & Access for Diverse Youth
      This website hosts a series of free, online professional development modules for school and public youth services librarians, library administrators and others interested in improving their knowledge about race and racism, racial equity and culturally sustaining pedagogy.
    • The National Association for Multicultural Education
      This organization created a set of resources for teachers and teacher professional developers who want to know why multicultural education makes sense in the classroom, what it means and what teachers can do.
    • Educator Tools for Talking About Race
      The Smithsonian Institute provides K-12 educators of all disciplines a collection of featured teaching tools, scholarly resources and interactive materials that center around their initative Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past.
    • Transformative SEL as a Lever for Equity & Social Justice
      The Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) answers the question "How Does SEL Support Educational Equity and Excellence?" and provides resources intended to transform inequitable settings and systems and promote justice-oriented civic engagement.
    • UDL Rising to Equity
      This update to the Universal Design for Learning Guidelines focuses specifically on addressing systemic barriers that result in inequitable learning opportunities and outcomes. 

     

    New Jersey Administrative Code

    Comprehensive Equity Plan

    Board Policies 

    Nondiscrimination/Affirmative Action 

    Equal Educational Opportunity