One School, One Book is an initiative created by the newly formed Diversity Committee. Clerked by third grade teacher, Erica Snowden, the Diversity Committee meets regularly to delve into personal identity and to discuss ways to incorporate issues of identity into our school curriculum. One School, One Book allows us to read and discuss one or two books throughout the school on the same diversity topic. At last Friday's Lower School assembly, Pre-Kindergarten TA Azizah Grant read the February book, Families by Shelly Rotner and Shelia Kelly, to students then they had a chance to share about their own families. Teachers are also reading the books to students and continuing these conversations in classrooms.

After reading families, the Diversity Committee has prepared the following age appropriate questions for teachers, as well as parents and guardians, to discuss with students:

Pre-Kindergarten to Grade 2:
Describe your family.
What makes a family?
What special family traditions do you have?

Grades 3-5:
What kinds of families are not in this book?
What's hard about being in a family?
What are you proud of in your family?

Grades 6-8:
Did you see your family in the book?
How are families portrayed in the media?
What are you proud/embarrassed about in your family?