When planning their central office staff meetings for the year, leaders at Highline Public Schools wanted to get staff input on which topics to cover. The leadership team hoped to include racial equity in education on the list, but they didn’t want to make a top-down decision. They decided to use this broad exchange question to learn which subjects were most important to staff: What topics and activities should we plan for our central office staff meetings this year? “Equity just went straight to the top,” says Highline Chief Communications Officer, Catherine Carbone Rogers. “That told us we could take the ball and run with it. We asked staff to help us plan how to explore that topic, so we could meet them where they are on a topic that can be emotional and delicate.” “This exchang

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