Student Equity Councils
Student Equity Councils Kick Off 2024-2025 School Year
Student Equity Councils (one at each of our high schools) are student leadership groups that receive training on how to improve diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) at their high schools. SEC members choose sub-projects to promote DEIA activities at their schools.
The District hosted training workshops in September to onboard new Student Equity Council members for the 2024-2025 school year. The trainings were broken out over three days (students attended one of the three days) from September 25-27 at various locations, and were led by Kandace Forrester, Chief Innovation Officer at Restorative Equity Partnership (REP). School site student equity coordinators were also in attendance. The trainings served to onboard new student equity council members and show them how Student Equity Councils work.
During the week of October 7, SMUHSD held SEC Kick Off Meetings with approximately 130 students and school site SEC coordinators in attendance.
These meetings were also led by Kandace Forrester and served to join all student equity council members across the District, build community, and put a lens on what the Student Equity Council does at each school.
Students also took part in project-based work where they mapped out what projects they wanted to be part of on campus, whether new projects or existing projects (started by SECs from previous years).
To learn more about Student Equity Councils, contact Julia Kempkey at jkempkey@smuhsd.org.
SMUHSD Student Equity Council Contact:
Julia Kempkey, Ed.D.
Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction, SMUHSD
School Site Student Equity Council Coordinators:
Aragon: Steve Henderson
Bridge Academy: Ana Rubio
Burlingame: Michael Ferguson
Capuchino: Stacy Kratochvil
Hillsdale: Rachel Lauderdale and Casey Nolan
Middle College: Kyra Bajeera
Mills: Alex Dove
Peninsula: Sage Hurt
San Mateo: Alfonso Dueñas