Our Vision
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Our Critical Success Factors (CSF)
Our priorities in 2020-2022
Aligning our efforts foundation wide
I-DEA Definitions and resources
Webinars
For the last two years, Ecolint has, in line with its mission to “Educate students to be global citizens with the courage and capacity to create a just and joyful tomorrow together” embarked on a journey to be pro-actively inclusive, diverse, equitable and anti-racist.
As we continue this journey, we strive for openness. Openness to continue to be aware of how we can know better to do better. To be open to each other, open to ourselves and open to, for and through our students who join us from all over the world. This requires us to be intentional, to keep our promises to make the necessary changes for each and every one of our community members to be able to show up at Ecolint as their full selves, and feel like they belong.
VISIONS Guidelines for Effective Communication
By adopting the success factors by VISIONS (see below), as well as their guidelines and establishing some of our own, the Ecolint community is increasingly exposed to a common language to engage in these discussions to be most efficient and effective moving forward as a foundation.
See the Guidelines for Effective Communication Brochure
Partnerships
In the 2022-2023 school year, we have added to our list of partnerships in this work. Thanks to our collaboration and many in-person and online work with AIELOC and ECIS, we have decided to co-create an international task force, uniting all DEIJ teams and their efforts in international schools worldwide.
We are committed to nurturing a climate that embraces all differences and offers respect not just in words, but in actions as well. This process is only possible through mutual learning. Since August 2020, we have made it a priority to create more opportunities for dialogue, for reflection, about ourselves and about others. Only through continuous learning do we optimise our education, increasingly providing a consciously inclusive culture for all our members. Through dialogue and training, we commit to developing a mutual understanding, a respectable and effective way to communicate and enough places and spaces for healing.
Our I-DEA vision requires both a top-down and bottom-up approach, with learning opportunities on personal, interpersonal, cultural and institutional levels. In the first phase, we have learned from the community members who have had the courage to step forward and help us create accountability. Only by increasing awareness and interpersonal and intercultural competence, can we consider ourselves part of a community that strives to be truly inclusive through diversity, equity and anti-racism. Only through these efforts can we truly live up to our Charter that demands all of our activities "be based on the principles of equality and solidarity among all peoples and of the equal value of all human beings without any distinction of nationality, race, sex, language or religion".
Ecolint’s Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Anti-Racism commitment
In our efforts to increase I-DEA at Ecolint, senior leadership and the board committed to twelve critical success factors created by VISIONS to help streamline all of the foundation’s efforts and initiatives from 2020-2021 onward. These success factors have been poured into an accountability and cohesion strategic plan for the 2022-2023 school year.