Diversity, Equity, Inclusive and Belonging (DEIB)

 

ISB strives to be a safe, inclusive, and equitable environment to ensure belonging for all
students. The board directs the Head of School to maintain and implement policies, procedures, and practices that create opportunities to meet the learning needs of our diverse students, as well as remove barriers to opportunity in support of belonging.

The Head of School will establish accountability metrics annually and provide a minimum annual update on the implementation of this policy. The school environment should encourage and engage students, faculty, staff, and community members to seek, honor, and respect diverse voices, practice inquiry and empathy, and act with purpose and integrity.

For the purpose of this policy, the Board adopts the following definitions for DEIB:

● Diversity - The full range of human differences within overarching similarities.

● Equity - Practices that ensure everyone has access to the resources that will help them thrive.

● Inclusion - Individual and institutional behaviors that show people they are accepted, respected, and valued.

● Belonging - The emotional and experiential outcome of inclusion and equity.