Help Us Fight Bullying and Violence by Waging Peace!
My students need is to benefit from anti-bullying presentation given by Serve2Unite, utilizing skills they teach on tolerance, compassion and committing acts of kindness.
This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.
My Students
My students are eager to learn different ways in which to deal with words that hurt. Last year I taught a mini-unit on bullying, which culminated with a student-centered pledge on ending words that hurt. This project is to continue that work by using outside resources to help my students.
My school has an enrollment of 99% minority student body, in which 91% come from economically disadvantaged homes.
It is a charter school in the city of Milwaukee. My students deal with social and economic hardships outside of school. Despite this, my students are very bright and intelligent individuals, and they are always interested in discussing and learning about issues that affect their everyday lives, both concerning current events and throughout history. My fellow co-workers and I work hard to create a safe environment where every child has an opportunity to learn, but it doesn't come without it's challenges. As urban educators, we fight both socioeconomic issues on the large scale and personal issues of students in a variety of different situations. It is so important to have as many tools in your toolbox to help students achieve to the best of their ability and this project is another tool to help students find ways to be respectful and show kindness to each other.
My Project
Having Serve2Unite come and facilitate open discussions on tolerance, showing kindness towards each other, and respect will hopefully have a positive affect on their behavior not only in school but outside of school as well. They will have open conversations about how words used by others can hurt them and how those that use hurtful words can express themselves in other ways that don't have negative effects on those around them. Pardeep and Arno do amazing work with urban students not just in Milwaukee but around the world and hopefully with their help, my students, our staff and I can utilize the tools they can teach us about being able to reject hate and anger in exchange for kindness and tolerance of those around us, regardless of who we are, where we come from, and what our life situation is like. This will continue the momentum from my anti-bullying unit and expand it to the entire middle school, creating an opportunity for open discussion.
I honestly believe that this project can help improve the social and emotional climate of our middle school, particularly for our students.
There are times when they don't know what to say so they say something that hurts others. This project can help facilitate change by giving them the tools to be able to recognize that first they are doing this, and second that there are other ways to react and respond to each other and those around them.
Serve2Unite
(Students will listen to Pardeep Kaleka and/or Arno Michaelis about how bullying and violence can change lives and how to effectively deal with anger and/or bullying in a constructive way by showing respect towards others and compassion towards others.)
$1,500.00
Visitor cost
$1,500.00
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$22.50
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$1,552.50
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$273.97
Total project goal
$1,826.47
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$1,826.47
31 Donors
-$1,482.35
Donations toward project cost
-$1,272.00
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$210.35
Matching donations from our partners
-$330.00
Match offers toward project cost
-$280.50
Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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