Our ideal candidates understand and actively support the importance of a workplace which thrives on
diverse cultural backgrounds, ethnicities,
heritage and
race, gender and sexual orientation, abilities, and ideas — someone who believes that differences make us stronger, and who is committed to creating and maintaining an open and equitable work environment inclusive of everyone.
It is contingent on... seeing cultural differences as assets; creating caring learning communities where culturally different individuals and
heritages are valued; using cultural knowledge of ethnically
diverse cultures, families, and communities to guide curriculum development, classroom climates, instructional strategies, and relationships with students; challenging racial and cultural stereotypes, prejudices, racism, and other forms of intolerance, injustice, and oppression; being change agents for social justice and academic equity; mediating power imbalances in classrooms based on
race, culture, ethnicity, and class; and accepting cultural responsiveness as endemic to educational effectiveness in all areas of learning for students from all ethnic groups.»