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• People of Color Conference (POCC)

  Every year Collegiate sends Lower, Middle and Upper School faculty and staff representatives to the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) sponsored People of Color Conference (POCC).
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  POCC supports people of color and their white allies in independent schools to build, to sustain and to nurture inclusive communities. Held concurrently with POCC, the Student Diversity Leadership Conference (SDLC) is a multiracial and multicultural gathering of high school age students from independent schools around the country. Collegiate students participate annually in SDLC.
  
  At POCC teachers, administrators and Board members of color from across the nation, together with their white allies, gather to celebrate and nurture diversity, multiculturalism, inclusion, equity and justice within independent schools. According to the POCC website, “In a recent survey of heads of school, 90 percent indicated that POCC and SDLC energize and revitalize people of color in independent schools. A majority of heads report that POCC and SDLC participants have implemented new programs, activities and services at their school as a result of attending the conferences.”  

• Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities (VCIC)

  Collegiate School works closely with VCIC in helping the school community to become a more diverse and inclusive community.
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  VCIC has helped Collegiate to review its overall admissions practices, faculty recruitment and retention efforts and curriculum. Middle and Upper School faculty have participated in the Break the Cycle: Be the Change workshop about understanding the roots of prejudice and discrimination. Middle School teachers have worked with VCIC to assess, understand and respond to bullying and teasing among Middle School students. VCIC and all Collegiate faculty are working together to build a community characterized by respect for differences.

• Virginia Diversity Network (VDN)

  All faculty have the opportunity to participate in workshops sponsored by the Virginia Diversity Network.
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  This network consists of nine independent schools who serve as leaders and other member schools who come together to learn more about diversity issues through workshops. Workshops have included understanding the alumni experience of diversity in an independent school, teaching in a multicultural Lower School environment, engaging in book discussions, learning about diversity on college campuses and developing a healthy admission process.