On The Importance of Diversity
It is the Millbrook Diploma Programme’s belief that diversity strengthens our IB community. When our community is represented by people from a variety of backgrounds and experiences, it allows our students, and our faculty, to benefit from a number of perspectives, leading to more open-minded and empathetic students, while also contributing to their personal and social growth and development. Encouraging and promoting cultural awareness of the perspectives and experiences of others creates an environment where new and different mindsets are celebrated and understood, and where information is shared and collaboratively processed to create more complete and more valuable knowledge frameworks.
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Millbrook's Equity and Access CommitteeThe EAC is a space where students who come from historically marginalized and underrepresented communities can share with one another, support one another and work with one another to strengthen their academic opportunities. At the same time the EAC gives these students an opportunity for meaningful discussions about cultural awareness, tolerance, respect, and other social issues surrounding diversity within our Diploma Programme. The EAC gives students within the Diploma Programme a space to express their unique experiences and challenges, and to work together to educate those who do not share those experiences or understand their impact on these students’ lives.
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Caleb Stephens' Statement on Race, Diversity and the
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MHS Diploma Programme Statement on Matters of Race and Equity
Millbrook's IB Diploma Programme recognizes the academic inequities in the United States that have resulted from our country's history of racism, and the resulting economic and political inequities that continue to impact marginalized communities in the US today. The results of these inequities are consistently reflected across the United States in the disparity in numbers of students from different racial and ethnic communities who participate in the more academically demanding pathways offered in our public, private and charter schools, and in particular IB Diploma Programmes. This reality has been clearly reflected in the data of the Millbrook Diploma Programme, collected over its 10-year history.
From the start of this programme in 2011, the Diploma Programme faculty has established policies and practices to promote equitable opportunities for all of our students. We have put forth an effort that we believe has served the Diploma Programme and its students well, but it has not been enough. We know there is more, and will always be more we can and must do to provide an environment where our African American, Hispanic, Asian students and all other consistently marginalized students can feel safe and comfortable in this demanding academic environment. If students do feel discomfort as members of the IB DIploma Programme at Millbrook, we hope it is because of the academic risk they chose to take, and not because of the color of their skin. Only then will we have created a programme where access is really open to all.
Please read our full Statement on Matters of Race and Equity.
From the start of this programme in 2011, the Diploma Programme faculty has established policies and practices to promote equitable opportunities for all of our students. We have put forth an effort that we believe has served the Diploma Programme and its students well, but it has not been enough. We know there is more, and will always be more we can and must do to provide an environment where our African American, Hispanic, Asian students and all other consistently marginalized students can feel safe and comfortable in this demanding academic environment. If students do feel discomfort as members of the IB DIploma Programme at Millbrook, we hope it is because of the academic risk they chose to take, and not because of the color of their skin. Only then will we have created a programme where access is really open to all.
Please read our full Statement on Matters of Race and Equity.