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| Core Value: Environmental Stewardship | the responsible management and protection of the natural environment, emphasizing sustainable practices and a moral or ethical obligation to conserve resources for the well-being of current and future generations |
| Core Value: Growth | where you acquire new skills, take on new challenges, embrace change, and evolve into your best self |
| Core Value: Community | involves the beliefs that collectively guide us as a school community, fostering our collective senses of belonging and purpose |
| Core Value: Equity | this means fairness and ensuring everyone has equal opportunities and access, even when treating people differently to account for different needs |
| Core Value: Responsibility | this means being accountable for your actions and decisions, reliably performing duties, and considering the consequences of your choices on yourself and others before acting |
| Social Justice | this refers to a fair and equiptable division of resources, opportunities and privileges in society |
| Equity | recognition that each person had different circumstances and allocates the exact resources and opportunities needed to reach an equal outcome |
| Equality | the state of being equal, especially in status, rights and opportunities |
| Justice | the concept that individuals are to be treated in a manner that is fair or just |
| Diversity | the condition of having or being composed of different elements; variety, especially teh inclusion of different types of people in a group or organization |
| Advocacy | public support for or recommendation of a particular cause or policy |
| Activism | the policy or action of using vigorous campaigning to bring about political or social change |
| Human Rights | the fundamental rights of ALL people, regardless of their race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language or religion, are entitled to |
| Universal Declaration of Human Rights | created by the United Nations, it lists out 30 human rights and ws the first time these fundamental rights were universally protected |
| Sustainability | the ability to maintain something at a certain rate or level |
| Discrimination | an unjust distinction in the treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of ethnicity, sex, age or disability |
| Segregation | the action of state or setting someone or something apart (typically by race or sex) |
| Brown v. Board of Education (1954) | the supreme court case that ruled segregation in schools is unconstitutional (overturned Plessy v. Ferguson, which said separate/segregated schools were ok and equal) |
| Redlining | a discriminatory practice where banks and other companies could refuse or limit loans, mortgages or insurance coverage within specific areas with high populations of people of color |
