Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Lower School Students Dance on Playground

St. Luke’s School endeavors to create a culture of inclusive belonging.

Dear St. Luke's Families and Friends,


Alongside its community standards (honesty, excellence, compassion, dignity, and respect), St. Luke’s School considers Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) as important aspects of the human experience, the educational and moral formation of students, and the building of healthy, caring, and socially just communities. 

DIVERSITY involves the various and valuable ways that individuals and groups differ from each other including, but not limited to, ability, age, economic status, ethnicity/race, gender identity, immigration status, linguistic traditions, nationality, political beliefs, religious spiritual and ethical traditions, and sexual identity. 

INCLUSION refers to intentional, individual and institutional efforts to create environments where people can express and learn from their differences in safe, creative, and courageous ways. 

EQUITY refers to intentional individual and institutional efforts to counteract the disproportionate privilege and power related to difference that is unfairly afforded to some people while denied to others.

St. Luke’s School endeavors to create a culture of inclusive belonging. The creation of this culture is requiring us to deepen our commitment to equity (i.e., substantive efforts to counteract the disproportionate amount of privilege and power unfairly afforded to some people while denied to others) and social justice (i.e., the restoration of unjust relationships and the pursuit of reciprocal relationships that promote individual and communal well-being). At St. Luke's, DEI is a way of life and an ethical stance supported by our mission and our identity as an Episcopal independent school that values perspectives and practices rooted in religion, spirituality, and moral traditions. In short, DEI is precisely what we mean when we use the famous phrase “the St. Luke’s Way.”

 

Grace and Peace,

Chiarna Morton
Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer    

 

Headshot of Chiarna Morton.
Students celebrate in the chapel.
The St. Luke's sign in fall.

The Dimensions of DEI

There are at least four, interrelated dimensions of our DEI work:

  • The individual dimension
  • The institutional dimension
  • The instructional dimension
  • The innovative dimension

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