Burlington, Vermont
Burlington Vermont School District
The Burlington Vermont School District was the school district that essentially started the Schools Exposed project, inspiring this article:
This page will contain the webinars the Burlington Vermont School District doesn’t want you to see, the ones that were deleted from their website as soon as this article was published, as well as other documents for posterity.
groomer Webinars
These webinars were posted to the Burlington Vermont School District’s home page in early 2022. They have since been removed due to negative public backlash. See them here as they were originally shown. You will see the school district putting 12-year-old 7th graders on display as a signal of their virtue. But it’s much worse than that – these webinars are the result of years of indoctrination in a school district that prizes equity above all else.
Let’s Talk About Whiteness
Let’s Talk about Gender Identity and Expression
Important Documents and Website Archives
This is a list of important documents and websites from the Burlington Vermont School District’s equity initiatives. All websites will have a live link but have also been archived on December 16 2022 just in case they are removed. If you find a document from Burlington Vermont’s School District that is not listed, please send to activelyunwoke (a) gmail.com
Annual District Equity Reports & Strategic Plan
The Burlington Vermont School district started formalizing equity as a part of its curriculum and administration in 2012.
- Equity Report 2020-2021
- Equity Report 2019-2020
- Equity Report 2018-2019
- Equity Report 2017-2018
- Equity Report 2016-2017
- Equity Report 2015-2016
- It’s unclear if there was an Equity Report for 2014-2015
- Equity Report 2013-2014
- Equity Report 2012-2013
aOther Documents & websites
- Equity Request Ticket
- Equity Workshop Series, 2023
- Racial Justice Summer Academy 2022
- Racial Justice Summer Academy student recommendations, 2022
- Restorative Culturally Responsive and Anti-Racist Teaching Tool, developed by students in Edmunds Middle School YPAR Collective
- LGBTQ+ Task Force, 2022
- Walkthrough tool to ensure that all school spaces have LGBTQ+ affirming materials, starting in elementary school (this is a part of the LBGTQ+ task force report above)
- Health Curriculum 2021-2022 (They’re teaching gender ideology starting in 6th grade, including the gender unicorn)
- Restorative Practices Collaborative
- Stop The Hate Campaign, 2021
- Vermont Agency of Education Continuing Best Practices for Schools Regarding Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students
- Safety Task Force, 2021
Community Partners used by the Burlington Vermont School District
Community Partners are outside organizations and non-profits whose resources are utilized by a school district in some way. Very commonly, these are advocacy organizations.
- GLSEN
- Up For Learning
- Burlington Community Justice Center
- YPAR (University of Vermont/Burlington School District Partnership)
- Truss Leadership Collaborative (anti-racism training for teachers and administrators)
- Organization for Social Media Safety
- Human Rights Commission – Stop The Hate campaigns
- Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium
- American Reading Company