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Strategic Action 4.6: Employment Equity

Fulfil the aspirations, protocols, and practices of the Employment Equity Policy.

Building an Inclusive Foundation

We've created a new Employment Equity Policy and provided mandatory training for our leadership team on bias in hiring. By standardizing interview questions and refining job posting language, we are embedding diversity, equity, and inclusion into our employment practices.

Collaborating for Change

We are actively partnering with organizations like the Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion (CCDI) and the Centre for Aboriginal Human Resource Development (CAHRD) while advocating at the provincial level to remove barriers for internationally educated teachers.

What We've Accomplished

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Accessibility and Advocacy

  • Hosted accessibility forum to engage community in ongoing dialogue
  • Advocated and participated in provincial committees to address barriers to employment for internationally educated teachers
  • Removed barriers for employees who are educational assistants in division but also internationally educated teachers, both with and without permanent Manitoba certification
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Staff Learning and Training

  • Mandated training for leadership team specifically around bias and hiring in spring 2024
  • Offered optional staff learning opportunities for leadership team on antiracism through Shelley and Izzedin's "Polarizing Conversations" workshop
  • Trained staff and implemented accessibility measures (e.g., tools on website)
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Policy

  • Created Policy GBA – Employment Practices: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Employment Practices – Admin Protocol in collaboration with community and various employee groups through working group
  • Standardized teacher interview questions to draw on indicators identified in policy, division's mission and vision, and 2023-2027 MYSP
  • Refined language on job postings to make them more inclusive and reflective of divisional values
  • Developed, implemented, and revised policies through equity lens
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Partnerships

  • Partnered with Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion (CCDI) to strengthen divisional practices and provide resources
  • Partnered and consulted with religious bodies to broaden divisional perspectives around religious leaves and accommodations (e.g., Manitoba Islamic Association and prayer spaces)
  • Partnered with Centre for Aboriginal Human Resource Development (CAHRD) and Community-based Aboriginal Teacher Education Program (CATEP)
  • Completed feasibility study with Université de Saint-Boniface and Bureau de l'éducation française on in-service French Educational Assistant training program
  • Hired on-staff Knowledge Keeper to support Indigenous initiatives

Communications

  • Published "Creating a Culture of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism in the 91黑料网," which explores ways staff are coming to strengthening equity and inclusion practices

Data Collection

  • Developed voluntary employee Ethnocultural Survey in consultation with staff, members of racialized communities, and division's various unions

Where We're Going

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Data Collection

  • Attach ethnocultural data to employee profiles and/or applications to remove barriers to self-identifying
  • Implement Employee Centre that allows staff to update their own information e.g. gender identity or add demographic information e.g. ethnocultural identity, thus removing barriers presented by current HRIF
  • Include self-declaration as part of recruitment process
  • Launch public Staff Diversity Dashboard that emulates Student Diversity Dashboard
  • Gather data re: school based PD related to anti-racism, equity, decolonization, inclusion
  • Implement strategic plan that addresses recruitment (language in new teacher collective agreement)
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Policy and Hiring

  • Have staff be better representation of student population they serve
  • Establish yearly review committee for Policy GBA

Mentorship and Training

  • Relaunch ITEP
  • Provide ongoing professional development for leaders
  • Implement mentorship programming