Join a Student Voice Advisory Committee
HWDSB is committed to developing safer, more equitable and more inclusive learning environments. To support student learning and well-being, HWDSB has a responsibility to ensure student voice is centered, valued, and acted upon. Creating a positive school board culture and environment where all students and staff feel safe, supported, and accepted is one of the goals of the HWDSB Equity Action Plan.
Student Voice Advisory Committees are part of the ongoing effort to achieve this goal and include the voices, experience, insight, and ideas of students who belong to groups which have been historically and currently marginalized by the education system. They allow participants to reflect upon their identities, and to share their lived experiences as well as specific challenges and successes. Current groups recruiting members include:
- Inclusion and Equity for Student of Colour Committee (IESCC)
- Two Spirit and LGBTQIA+ Student Voice Committee
- Cultivating Community: Reclaiming Our Spaces in Education (CC:ROSE)
- Student Mental Health Advisory Committee
Click here or visit hwdsb.info/student-groups-2023 to express interest in an HWDSB Student Voice Group.
These committees will serve to connect students from different schools and provide insight on policies, programs and practices to improve outcomes for all students. Meetings will occur at least once per month in person and/or via MS Teams and will be facilitated by HWDSB staff.
Students can click the links above to find individual flyers for each group. To express interest in joining one of these groups, please click the application link below and staff will follow up with more information. The deadline to express interest in the Student Voice Groups is 4 p.m. on Friday, October 20.
Updated on Wednesday, October 11, 2023.