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Community Building Framework for Tech Leaders

Community Building Framework for Technology Leaders

This PDF resource demonstrates how technology leaders can foster community building while promoting a sense of belonging within the sphere of technology and the school community. ATLIS is providing this resource freely to the entire independent school community.

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ATLIS Community Building Advisory Committee

In 2019, the ATLIS Board of Directors adopted a strategic plan that specifically led to the development of a Community Building Advisory Committee to support the Board on equity issues. The Community Building Advisory Committee's charter states: "The mission of the Community Building Advisory Committee is to support ATLIS as it strives to be an organization where all individuals and independent school communities join together to support one another and work together to deliver the best educational environment possible for today’s learners."

The ATLIS Community Building Advisory Committee will assist and guide in:

  • Supporting activities to raise awareness and promote the removal of bias, discrimination, and inequity in independent schools as it pertains to technology

  • Assisting in the development of diversity, equity, and inclusion topics and related items of discussion for ATLIS educational programs

  • Assisting ATLIS in promoting leadership opportunities for all independent school technologists that foster greater diversity, equity, and inclusion

  • Collaborating with ATLIS staff to create space for difficult conversations to take place, and to encourage all voices to speak up, as we design professional development and networking opportunities for the community

  • Providing feedback for ATLIS’s ongoing strategic planning as it pertains to our Community Building goals

Diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives at ATLIS have grown over the past several years. Conference sessions have broadened, and our virtual conferences in 2021 and 2020 each had its own strand of Community Building & Tech sessions. In its 2021 Compensation Report, ATLIS began to track issues of gender and ethnicity with regard to school leadership structures and salary. In addition, ATLIS devoted the 2018 edition of its journal Access Points to the topic.

Committee Members

2023-24 Community Building Advisory Committee members:

Allison Ross (Chair)

Charles Allen

Gayle Cole

Robert Drake

Jason Epstein

Jay Heath

Dan McGee

Matt Norko

Shandor Simon

Daisy Steele

Jose Tagle

Vinnie Vrotny

John Yen

ATLIS board liaisons:

Jason Curtis

Stacia McFadden

Denise Musselwhite

Marquis Scott

Shelly Luke Wille

Staff liaison:

Christina Lewellen