Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging

• Access and Inclusion: Unceasingly preparing, inviting, and welcoming students, families and caregivers, faculty, and staff to an environment where all have the opportunity to thrive and build skills to succeed at CA and beyond.

• Collaboration and Community: creating collaborative partnerships, internally and externally, to better serve students and work towards shared goals.

• Education, Teaching, and Learning: actively and deliberately utilizing methods, practices, and approaches that incorporate content that reflects distinctive viewpoints and diverse ways of knowing, living in, and experiencing the world.

• Unending Transformation: promoting opportunities for continual individual and organizational reflection and collaboration to integrate what we learn into our culture and communal infrastructure.

• Accountability: evaluating and assessing progress towards the realization of CA’s diversity statement, acknowledging opportunities for growth as they surface, and creating additional channels for feedback and difficult conversations.

Commonwealth Academy recognizes and values the wide range of voices and perspectives in all spheres of the academic enterprise. Through this exchange of views and experiences, our students gain the skills, knowledge, and attitude that will prepare them to be leaders in an increasingly multicultural world.

• Admissions policies, hiring practices, professional development opportunities, and curriculum that are inclusive

• Upholding a positive, pluralistic environment where the academic and social well-being of all community members is affirmed and assured

• Adhering to policies that promote inclusiveness, social justice and respect for all, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, national or ethnic origin, physical or mental disability, and gender identity/expression

• Establishing supports, affinity groups, and meaningful partnerships with external organizations and associations for individuals in our community from diverse backgrounds

Note: This list is not intended to be exhaustive and is updated regularly.