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Inclusion and Belonging

Together with students, educators, and partners, we create the daily practices that help every learner thrive
Diverse students

At HGSE, we renew our commitments to welcome all of who you are and what you bring. Through research, teaching, and practice, we build shared structures and daily habits that make learning joyful, relationships strong, and opportunity expansive. Guided by care and rigor, we listen, reflect, and act so that every learner and educator can thrive. 

Initiatives

Acknowledging the Land Where We Sit

Although the Harvard Graduate School of Education community spans the globe, we acknowledge that the land on which many of our homes, schools, and places of work sit are the ancestral lands of Indigenous peoples. In Cambridge, the land on which we gather is the traditional and ancestral land of the Massachusett.

We also recognize the enslaved individuals who helped to build Harvard University and others across this country, understanding the role that they played in creating and funding educational institutions that were not intended to serve them and did not regard the dignity of their humanity.

Acknowledging our history is an important step in combating the erasure of the essential contributions, sacrifices, and stories of those before us. It is a step towards ensuring a culture of awareness, respect, and accountability within our community.

View the Acknowledgment of Land and People by the Harvard University Native American Program.