• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging

    Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging drive the foundation of Madera Elementary’s core values. We believe that learning and growing toward one’s potential is a basic human right. Our school community is strengthened by the diversity of student, parent, and staff voices singing together, playing together, working together, and learning together. Madera's Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Committee supports our school to foster compassion, engagement, and awareness of the varied cultures, ethnicities, religions, genders, sexual orientations, family compositions, abilities, learning differences, and socioeconomic backgrounds of our families and the broader community. for our email list to receive periodic email digests of DEI-related opportunities, resources, and workshops as well as volunteer opportunities and Madera DEI meetings! 

    Anti-Racism Resources

     including book lists, audio and video segments for parents or kids who want to get better at talking openly about race and racism 

    Translation plug-ins! 

    Free Translation plug-ins for your web browser  / Complementos de traducción gratuitos para que su navegador web traduzca automáticamente texto en inglés/ Complementos de traducción gratuitos para que su navegador web traduzca automáticamente texto en inglés/适用于您的网络浏览器的免费翻译插件，可自动翻译英文文本. Download yours here: ,,,,

    Resources for Parents of Children with Disabilities

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    2. (Special Education Rights and Responsibilities)

    Madera Welcoming Buddies Program

    The Madera Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee is exploring ways to welcome new families and help them transition to life at Madera. In 2020, we launched a voluntary program called “Welcoming Buddies” to pair incoming or newer Madera families with existing members of the Madera community for a welcoming phone call to answer questions, and possibly provide connections to other Madera families or resources in the community. How much time you spend participating is completely up to you and your buddy family! 

    To support our immigrant families who are new to Madera and/or are learning English, we encourage families to sign up who speak multiple languages and/or are interested in cross-cultural exchange. We would love to have you join us!  If you are interested in participating either as an experienced Madera family, or as an incoming or newer family, fill out .

    Diverse Book Drive

    Madera Diversity, Equity and Inclusion 2020/21 reading list recommendations

    Madera Elementary's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committee has curated a  that reflect the diversity of the world around us, while capturing the hearts and imaginations of their lucky readers. With every purchase you make of books on Pegasus’ website or in-person at Pegasus Books, Pegasus Books will donate a percentage of your total back to Madera to support our kids' enrichment if you mention you want your purchase to support Madera at checkout. 

    English Language Learners

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    Madera families: If you have language skills and would like to be in our pool of occasional translators, please let us know! MaderaDiversityCommittee@gmail.com We send out occasional asks (usually cleaning up a paragraph or a page we’ve google translated) and you’d only need to respond if you have time.

    Thanks SO much to our awesome DEI volunteers who helped translate this into Spanish, Arabic, and Chinese! (Special shout outs to Ala'a and Haili!) 

    Connect with us!
    We want to hear from you, both new Madera parents and longtime Madera families!

    All are invited to join our meetings. We would love your help and ideas! We hold virtual meetings via zoom from home. Sign up on our email list below to be notified in advance of our next meeting.


    Join Our Mailing List

    Sign up to stay in the loop! We send out periodic updates of DEI-related resources, webinars, workshops, and upcoming events.


    Questions, comments or want to join our mailing list?

    Send us an email at MaderaDiversityCommittee@gmail.com