Belonging & Community

Our Philosophy

Our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion works to ensure that every member of our school can participate fully in the Gulliver experience. The effort to be equitable, inclusive, and just is an enduring commitment and a never-ending process.

Longtime Gulliver Director Marian Krutulis established our mission statement: “To create an academic community devoted to educational excellence, with a personal touch, that fulfills each student’s potential.” Among the values that lead to educational excellence and fulfillment of student potential are respect, cooperation, friendship, caring, courage, and diversity. At Gulliver, we engage diversity in the broadest sense, knowing our community is comprised of students and adults who have a wide variety of backgrounds, skills, characteristics, and social identities. We pay particular attention to the ways that status, privilege, opportunity, and access to resources systemically correlate with social identities, and we work to eliminate disparities. Our focus on diversity involves all members of the Gulliver community, including individuals from majority and minority groups.

Diversity enhances our capacity for academic and professional excellence, ensuring that our graduates are able to demonstrate “future-ready skills” like communication, collaboration, and cultural competency in an increasingly complex, interconnected, and global society. We continue to deepen our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion because it embodies the values and ideas about teaching, learning, justice, and community that Gulliver has always held dear.

Principles and Beliefs

Gulliver demonstrates a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion by adhering to the following principles and beliefs:

We work actively to counter systemic disparities in status, privilege, and opportunity corresponding with factors including, but not exclusively limited to, ethnicity, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, ability, and socioeconomic status.
Through thoughtful exploration of social issues and how identity impacts each of our lives, we work to develop cultural literacy and an anti-bias identity among our students, faculty, staff, administrators, and parents.

We align our operational and pedagogical practices behind the idea that every student, irrespective of demographic background, can achieve educational excellence.
We work to minimize or eliminate any opportunity and achievement gaps across student demographic groups.
We teach content that intentionally includes representation from a broad cross-section of our community and the broader society.

We have created a multi-layer organizational structure to ensure our work in diversity, equity, and inclusion is reflected in all facets of the Gulliver experience. These structures guide our current initiatives and push us to continually develop thoughtful, impactful programming.

The Board of Trustees Diversity Committee reviews and plans strategic initiatives and ensures adequate resources are provided for the work.