EIB Student Programs & Initiatives

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The EIB Office and student-led team develop and implement several curricular, co-curricular, and extra-curricular clubs, activities, programs and events that support students in learning about themselves, learning with and from one another. All ninth grade students take Creating Community, a required course that enables students to learn and practice the skills needed to form a school community in which all may thrive as their authentic selves and learn what it means to be engaged citizens in the world.

Opportunities For Students

Student Equity and Inclusion Leadership

There are many leadership opportunities for students to get involved in Newark Academy's EIB activities. They include serving as:

Newark Academy's Black and Latino Family Network

EIB Liaisons - EIB liaisons serve as links between the Office of Equity, Inclusion and Belonging and its affiliated student organizations. Liaisons actively participate in campus-wide diversity and inclusion events and engage in off-campus conferences and student leadership development opportunities.
EIB Council - Joining the council allows students to promote diversity, equity and justice throughout the school community through student centered programming.

EIB-affiliated Clubs

There are several EIB-affiliated clubs for NA students, including:

Asian Diversity
Black Student Union
Christianity Club
Diverse Abilities Club
Gender Sexuality Alliance
Healthy Body, Healthy Mind Club
Middle Eastern & Muslim Cultural Club
Jewish Club
Mi Casa
POWER (People on Women's Empowerment and Rights)
South Asian Student Union

See the full list of NA clubs and activities.

EIB-affiliated Conferences for Students

Students are encouraged to participate in conferences and leadership opportunities outside the school community. Students have engaged with:

ADL’s Never is Now Conference
DAIS-Multicultural Student Leadership Conference
Latinx Youth Conference
National Association of Independent School’s Student Diversity Leadership Conference (SDLC)
New Jersey GSA Forum
Mid-Atlantic Diversity Conference
Middle School Diversity Conference at the Haverford School
Teens Talk about Racism Conference
Widening the Lens
Young Asian Leadership Alliance Gala and Conference
Young Men of Color Symposium and (Re) Defining Power Conference
Young Women of Strength Conference

Learning Outcomes

NA students learn and develop through the four goals for anti-bias work, according to educator and author Louise Derman-Sparks. They are:

Identity

Diversity

Justice

Action

Bias Response and Education System

The Bias Response and Education System aims to support an “upstander” culture at Newark Academy through ongoing education about bias. All members of the Newark academy community are encouraged to recognize, interrupt, and report bias-related incidents. The goal is to use the system to provide education and strengthen relationships within the NA community.