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Student Projects
| East Windsor High School |
| Developed and held a school wide Diversity Day. The day was divided into four assemblies in, with each assemble including icebreakers, a group exclusion exercise, a student panel about how stereotypes & prejudice had affected them in school, and an activity called “Flash Judgments.” Twenty students organized and ran the assemblies and many continued their involvement by joining the newly formed club SAID (Students Against Isms and Discrimination.) |
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| Westfield Vocational Technical High School |
| Students planned to organize a cultural diversity night with songs and dance as well as food from different students’ cultures. Also, the students planned to paint a mural in the school hallway featuring the Hands Project from Bridges – an activity that showcases students’ social identities and personalities. |
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| Springfield Expeditionary Learning School (6th grade.) |
The students planned to write and distribute a newsletter throughout the school about their experiences in BRIDGES. The newsletter would include a poem about prejudice that the group wrote, individual reflections, poetry written independently, and articles about issues including racism & sexism in their school.
A second action piece: students planned to hold a forum and safe language campaign. The safe language piece would include posters throughout the school as well as articles in the newsletter about safe language. The forum would build on this and feature student speakers on topics such as the use of the N-word, the B-word, and phrases like “That’s so gay,” and “that’s so retarded.” |
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| Quirk Middle School |
| The students at Quirk developed a Pen Pal Project to take place between the different houses at the school. Students expressed concern that people only knew other people in their own “Houses,” and that different houses had different reputations based on stereotypes and prejudice. The Pen Pal Project would build bridges across the divide between houses. |
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