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Recommendation 48:
The Ministry of Education must support the professional growth and retention of educators of African Descent through dedicated training on leadership, career advancement and succession planning.
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Recommendation 47:
The Ministry of Education must provide educators of African Descent with the needed emotional and material support as they face navigate racist structures and institutions. This includes dedicated support to Black professionals within BC’s education sector to run their solidarity and mentorship programming. Also, it is critical for the Province to design and support training programs for educators of African Descent on how to effectively deal with the racism they will encounter from students and peers. The program must be led in design and implementation by educators with lived anti-Black racism experiences as an unreflective program can be retraumatizing.
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Recommendation 50:
The Ministry of Education must promote the use of an anti-Black racism lens in curriculum development and content delivery in schools. It is important to draw on educators, students and experts of African Descent in the development of such an anti-Black racism curriculum. The study of Black cultures and histories in BC schools must center the excellence, science, arts and innovations of People of African Descent and does not emphasize People of African Descent as victims or as perpetrators.
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Recommendation 44:
The Ministry of Education must prioritize the training, recruitment and retention of more mental health and career counselors of African Descent for BC schools.
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Recommendation 51:
The Ministry of Education must fund the implementation of after-school and vacation programmes that centre Black histories, experiences and realities. These programs must be developed in conjunction with educators of African Descent and Black-focused community organizations. To this end, Black-focused community organizations undertaking after-school and vacation programmes for students must be supported with funding and resources for capacity building.
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Recommendation 49:
The Ministry of Education must fund and support anti-Black racism education and training programs in schools for all students, educators and other staff across BC. These programs must be designed by persons with lived experiences and aim to re-socialize non-People of African Descent while providing People of African Descent with resources to navigate concerns with expected and real incidents of anti-Black racism.
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Recommendation 43:
The Ministry of Education must ensure that the eventual K-12 Education Anti-Racism Action Plan recognizes the peculiarity of anti-Black racism and its implications. It is critical that the Ministry of Education pursues an implementation strategy that supports collaboration with Black-focused organizations and educators of African Descent to promote the action plan within the Black community. The associated oversight and implementation committees must include students, educators and community leaders of African Descent.
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Recommendation 42:
The Ministry of Education must develop, in conjunction with educators and psychologists of African Descent, the necessary competencies and toolkits for contextually interpreting the evaluations and assessments of educators and principals of African Descent by students and reviewers, respectively. This is critical as a de-contextualized review system could reflect anti-Black racism and discrimination that in turn affects the professional and career chances of educators of African Descent.
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Recommendation 41:
The Ministry of Education must boost access to advocacy services for students/families of African Descent. Such dedicated advocacy services must be backed by strategic policy that emphasizes implementation by teams with the necessary cultural humility and lived experience. This can be mandated either under the Representative for Children and Youth Act or under the pending Anti-racism legislation.
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Recommendation 40:
The Ministry of Education must actively design and implement programming to actively inform and engage students/parents on redress mechanisms independent of the education system (e.g. Human Rights Commission). The Anti-racism legislation must consider legislating an independent complaint process for racialized students and their families.
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