This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Students
Imagine living in a neighborhood where you need to give your family self imposed curfews on playing outside to for your own safety? How stifling can that be for a growing child.
I work with 29 energetic second graders.
Our classroom keeps growing and the learning must go on. We are in a highly dense area of the inner city and are a public school that serve all the children of the neighborhood. We have breakfast in the classroom and are all on the free lunch program.
My Project
In an effort to teach the students self-empowerment and give them the tools to change what they see and know the difference, we will be studying about what it means to be a good friend, and not a good friend. The digital camera that we are requesting will allow the students to go and take pictures of different situations happening for our photographic evidence of what makes a good friend, and what needs to change. Then our students will write about it and produce color posters from the ink that we are requesting to teach the rest of the school about why it is not okay to be a bully or stand by and watch someone else getting bullied.
The book "Bullying in Schools" have great real scenarios that can be our catalyst in our conversations as students talk about their experiences and encounters with bullying in and or out of school. We will have a circle council within our own class and then invite our parents in to have that same conversations.
People can be a bully and not know it.
Teachers are so influential. I often hear my students speaking to each other the way I speak to them. What a great way to pass along the message and have our students be our messenger to change. Please help my students and I combat this epidemic.
More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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