“I’m not sure what happened,” said community member Mike Gibbs during the public comment period at the meeting. “You’ve had the protocols, you’ve had the training but somehow this individual … wandered around in at least one school. Apparently the principal stopped them and escorted them out. Good. But how did they get there in the first place and where was the breakdown?”
Thursday’s board meeting unveiled a new partnership – a $7,800 contract with the National Coalition Building Institute to provide additional cultural proficiency professional development sessions.
It’s a busy week for school boards, with governing boards from all the districts on the Peninsula scheduled to meet. Here are the school board meetings to keep an eye on this week.
The training – in partnership with Lozano Smith law firm – will consist of five sessions from Oct. 2023 through Feb. 2024 to “provide legal and practical foundation for addressing and responding to bias incidents and creating a sustainable approach to system-wide practices based on a framework and internal accountability.”
Martin Luther King Jr. said once, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” I think about that quote often, followed by wondering just how