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Education Action Team (EAT)

The purpose of the Education Action Team is to:

  • Work toward justice and equity for all marginalized students

  • Foster advocacy and activism in education in Arvada

  • Build equity and diversity in Arvada schools for students and families specifically in Arvada

  • Create a more inclusive and anti-racist curriculum through trusting relationships and targeted action

EAT will accomplish our purpose by:

  • Recognizing and elevating marginalized student and staff voices

  • Educating staff and leadership teams on equitable access to curriculum

  • Ensuring that marginalized voices have a seat at the table

  • Confronting racism and bias in our schools

  • Creating curriculum that accurately reflects our history, while representing students and our community

Current Projects:

  • Arvada area high schools support and relationship building

  • 1-on-1 conversations and surveys with community stakeholders

  • Letter writing

  • Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) training and anti-racist curriculum

  • Building inclusivity and diversity in Arvada schools (supporting marginalized students)

  • State legislation (HB20-1295, revise existing state statute, budget, etc.)

Member Commitments & Expectations:

Members are encouraged to:

  1. Attend EAT meetings once a month (currently the third Thursday of each month)

  2. Keep up with team communications:

    • Emails

    • Monthly meeting agenda/minutes documents, where members continue posting updates until the next month’s agenda is sent out

    • ASJ Slack Workspace

  3. Participate in the team’s ongoing projects as available and per interest/connections

  4. Take turns representing the EAT at ASJ general meetings

Next Steps…

If you are interested in joining the Education Action Team:

  1. Please complete the form below with contact information and some details about your school affiliations.

  2. Someone from the team will follow up with you to:

    1. Send you a detailed overview of our current projects and the latest meeting agenda, so that you can be prepared to jump in at the next EAT meeting and plug into the project(s) you are interested in, and

    2. Add you to the group emails and grant you access to the team’s Slack Workspace and Google Drive folder, where you can find an archive of past meeting agendas/minutes, group contact info, and other helpful documents

Message our Education Action Team