Hill’s Black Excellence Plan 2023-2024

Academic EXCELLENCE: 

Instruction is the most vital system at Hill to promote excellence and equity for our black students at both Hill and beyond. Hill is committed to ensuring equitable instruction for EACH student in ALL contents. Our black students deserve daily access to grade-level rigor and tasks that grow academic proficiency and build confidence to tackle increasingly complex academic challenges. We will do this by focusing on 3 key components within our instructional system: 

• Best First Instruction 
• DDI Targeted on supporting EACH student with academic needs and acceleration
• SGI and targeted interventions in response to data

EQUITABLE Systems that Foster A Sense of Belonging: 

In order for our black students to fully engage in their learning, our black students must feel emotionally safe, intellectually safe and physically safe. In addition, our black students must feel seen, valued, and celebrated for their authentic selves. In order to create this safety and sense of belonging, Hill will prioritize the following: 

• Reflection on bias when approaching unit plans and daily lessons 
• Internalization of restorative approaches to strengthen relationships with each student and promote equitable responses to student behaviors

Community ENGAGEMENT: 

It is important to build authentic partnerships with our black families through a sense of belonging for all of our black community. The black community at Hill must feel welcomed, heard and included in their child’s education. We will do this by: 

• Creating a Black Family Alliance 
• Expanding our communication systems to be more intentional and transparent to allow for each family to feel informed and included in school wide events and schoolwide feedback