Diversity Day is For All

Diversity Day at CSW is a special day when we, as a school community, take time to explore the different types of diversity in our community and beyond. 
 
Diversity Day at CSW is a special day when we, as a school community, take time to explore the different types of diversity in our community and beyond. 
 
As it has been for more than a decade, Diversity Day is a full day of participation and engagement in workshops, panels and all-school discussions on topics ranging from race, class, sexual orientation, stereotypes, cultural identity, gender, body image, and more. Our entire community is involved, and it is an exciting time for us to come together, learn from one another, and continue the great work of empowering our students to become conscious consumers and facilitators of information.
 
The Diversity Committee is student-run. Working with Jordan Clark ’05, coordinator for student leadership and diversity programming, Satinder Parmer ’17, Elizabeth Clackson ‘18, Fayona Thomas ‘17 and Rina Dale ’17, managed the planning for the special day that is embraced by the entire community. In an effort to encourage more students and members of the faculty and staff to present workshops this year, the group helped to develop a guide to be used as a supportive template. This year, the committee also appointed the week leading up to Thursday’s all-day event as “Diversity Week” – alliance and affiliate groups worked with one another to share ideas, collaborate and talk about issues important to them.
 
Diversity Day included a wide range of workshops that were presented as discussion and hands-on/activity-based such as dance styles from Latin America, Identity through Poets of Color, Dudes, Dads and Dictators, Queer Media Representation, Eastern and Western Ways of Seeing, Invisible Disabilities, exploring drag culture, and several culinary sessions representing food from a variety of cultures. Exiled Syrian refugee Hani Termanini shared his story as part of a workshop to provide a better understanding of the Syrian war. He spoke of arriving in the U.S. from Aleppo in 2013, and described the plight of refugees, and what we might do in this community to support refugees in the Boston area.
 
Between the morning and afternoon sessions, a powerful keynote presentation was hosted and run by MassLEAP. The organization hosted a poetry slam where artists performed spoken word pieces centering around diversity, identity and other issues. CSW students were tasked with voting on a winner, which was very challenging given the emotionally-charged performances.
 
After the afternoon workshops and presentations, 2017’s Diversity Day concluded with dialogue debriefs and the encouragement to keep the conversation going on what diversity is and what it means to our community.

Watch a video highlight reel and view photos from this year’s incredibly moving day.


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The Cambridge School of Weston is a progressive high school for day and boarding students in grades 9–12 and PG. CSW's mission is to provide a progressive education that emphasizes deep learning, meaningful relationships, and a dynamic program that inspires students to discover who they are and what their contribution is to their school, their community and the world.