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The Middle School has a student-led Diversity Council that echoes the Student Council and the Honor Council. Learn more here about how it works and its recent activities.
Community, Inclusion, and Equity
Teaching boys How They Fit
A primary educational goal is for boys to understand "how they fit" in our increasingly global society. Learning to interact with people from backgrounds different from their own helps them reach this understanding. Gilman's robust diversity gives boys the empathetic skills they need to become responsible global citizens.Gilman has a history of being a community school, and character and the desire to lead develop best through action. Boys develop empathy, understanding, and compassion for others through daily interactions as well as volunteering and service to the community.
News
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Hundreds of people from the Gilman Community and beyond enjoyed an afternoon learning about the traditions, food, art, music, and more from countries throughout the globe during the 16thannual Cultural Arts Festival. Here's a video of highlights, including performances.
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A weekend of events included town hall-style assemblies, a welcome reception at the Lewis Museum, a mentoring event with current students, a special recognition dinner, and more. Read all about it here.
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The Parent Association and Gilman’s office of Community, Inclusion, and Equity, recently hosted a Book Club and Community Conversation. Antero Pietila, author of Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City, was interviewed by Rodney Glasgow ’97.
Upcoming Events
February
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Auditorium, Gilman School, 5407 Roland Ave, Baltimore, MD 21210, USA
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Old Gym: Gilman School, 5407 Roland Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21210
March
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University of Baltimore School of Law, 1415 Maryland Ave, Baltimore, Maryland
May
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Centennial Hall, Gilman School, 5407 Roland Ave, Baltimore, MD 21210, USA
A Community School
Being a community school means that we seek to understand the needs of the city and local areas, not least so that we can understand where we might be able to add expertise and resources to solve city problems.
Gilman is currently doing this in several ways. We support B.E.S.T., Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust, an organization that looks to work with talented students in order to place them in one of the many fine independent schools in the city and county. We sponsor our own summer Learning Camp and are a site location for Bridges, an innovative leadership program for Baltimore City youth. We participate with the Middle Grades Partnership. Our goal is to find ways to build relationships with colleagues, bring teachers together and to partner our students with peers from different schools.
Learn more about our Baltimore connections.
Contact
Johnnie Foreman
Director of Community, Inclusion, and Equity
Tangie Mason
Administrative Assistant
Donell Thompson
Director of Service Learning, Teacher
Gilman School's commitment to diversity is founded on the belief that our community is strengthened by the vibrant exchange that occurs when individuals with different backgrounds, abilities and heritages share their various perspectives with one another.