The Langley school just celebrated our 80th anniversary. We started as a parent cooperative, where families knew that they wanted to come together and help their children learn in community. It's been a journey all of those 80 years as we've expanded, that community made it more inclusive, definitely focused more intently on making sure there's a sense of belonging for every member of our community. And our intention is to keep doing that work. As educators as students as families to do that work together and create the strongest community we can we have been formally doing belonging and dei work since 2015 is when we started our REACH program which is raising emotional acuity cultural responsiveness healthy behaviors, and I think if you are familiar with D and the belonging work you know, the work never stops. So at Langley everything that we do basically falls into the belonging umbrella whether we're talking about identity whether we're talking about our student groups, our affinity, our alliances, groups, that multicultural days, like their heritage luncheons, like all of those things to make sure that our students are feel seen and heard and valued
lengthiest. It's small, but everybody supports you, no matter what all the different groups you're in, like there's an alliance plus for LGBTQ plus students, and that's so supportive of everybody, they have a pride month coming up. And people of color, it's so supportive, that no matter what you do, even sports athletics, like anything you're interested in, you'll feel supported. And I think with all the options, it's much easier for you to be yourself because there's people who you can, like relate to in those groups.
I've definitely seen a change in how kids show up every day, like in their school in different aspects of their classes, just being more authentic and feeling more comfortable to be themselves which I love to see because I feel that at Langley, that I can be myself and be authentic, the fact that they can do that as well. It makes me feel really good.