in lesson planning and our curriculum design. This year, in pre-K through 12, all educators and people that work with our community, like our SRO (School Resource Officer), will be joining in on anti-racist learning and I think that the exciting thing about that is that we have teachers leading that work in a facilitation model. We’re growing this greenhouse of in-house people who feel comfortable holding these conversations and supporting our colleagues.” The culture at SBSD clearly reveres self-examination and continual personal and professional growth.“In order to build and nurture life-long learners, we have to model that in ourselves,” Desrochers explains. “That’s our approach to professional learning -- to honor our own growth so that students can feel more comfortable on that scale, too. We have set a district goal in social/emotional learning and raising students’ sense of belonging.And that encompasses that idea that we are constantly evolving and we can be better people every day. We are striving to show that and to model life-long learning -- not just in the typical way of math and science and ELA (English 276 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 05, ISSUE 12
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