The following specific actions are planned:

To engage our community

• We will organize a series of virtual panels focused on actions that different stakeholders would like to see in different aspects of our activities. E.g. teacher education, graduate programs, research, services;
• We will build a program of activities into our Faculty Assemblies and on other occasions during the year;
• We will create a moderated internal space for learning for Faculty employees (e.g. a Teams group);
• We will identify key research and professional learning partnerships with local school boards to study and address anti-Black racisms across the school curriculum;
• We will engage with partners within the University (e.g., TLSS, other Faculties) to propose new joint initiatives focused on addressing anti-Black racisms.

To identify what we must change

• We will review and revise faculty and program policy documents, including professor and student guides, from a racial justice perspective to update language and expectations, highlight current policies, etc.;
• We will conduct a scan of practices on racial justice in Faculties of Education and other institutions elsewhere in Ontario and in Canada more broadly;
• We will review the Faculty’s out-facing communications to ensure they reflect our values.

What did we do?

• We engaged in crucial conversations and listened to powerful stories. 
• We formally adopted the United Nations Declaration on the International Decade for People of African Descent and made statements expressing outrage about racist incidents in Canada and abroad. 
• We updated policies, reviewed programs, created student bursaries, and hosted events. 
• Our students and community partners, in particular, devoted countless hours to organizing and animating the numerous occasions during which we learned, unlearned and connected (albeit virtually) during roundtables and even poetry readings. 

We wish to thank every single person who contributed to or participated in these initiatives. We pledge to continue the journey together.