Tuesday, June 05, 2012

an organizational approach to diversity

Last night, prior to the copying incident mentioned below, I was in a training session to be a mentor for new corps members (who arrive next week!). We talked about expectations and framed them within the core values of TFA.

One of the core values is diversity, so we talked about "diversity." In reality, we danced around anything to do with diversity until finally the leader of the group said, "The reality is that educational inequity falls along racial and socioeconomic lines, and we need to acknowledge that... Wow, I feel like it's really tense in here. I didn't mean to make it so serious. Should I do a little dance to lighten things up?"

Nope, that's just you feeling uncomfortable. And even if there is tension, it's our responsibility to work through it, not avoid it. By dancing.

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