New Roads Hosts DEI Workshops for Parents
As an institution built on antiracist assumptions, New Roads is deeply committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. This has led to the creation of a series of parent workshops that seek to bring parents into the conversation around social justice and systemic racism. Mario Johonson, Director of Equity, Access and Inclusion, points out that the goal of these workshops is to “give parents the tools that they need to engage their kids in difficult topics around race, equity and access.” The first workshop took place on January 12, with Mario and Hala Khouri, M.A., SEP, as lead facilitators. They provided useful definitions, concepts and frameworks in order to establish “a shared vocabulary amongst us as a community” that will “support the work that we will be doing moving forward,” Mario notes. While the workshop featured difficult topics for discussion, the space always “felt very warm, receptive and open,” Mario concludes.
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New Roads School is a college preparatory K-12 private independent school in Santa Monica, CA, serving over 515 elementary school, middle school and high school children from the greater Los Angeles area. New Roads School provides an inspired educational program from which an authentically diverse student population, mirroring the rich diversity of Los Angeles, develops a personal dedication to learning, a respect for independent thinking, and an expanding curiosity about the world and its people.
NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATORY POLICY AS TO STUDENTS New Roads School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.