Best Ideas To Increase Civil Rights Awareness

  • Have "quote of the day" recited over the intercom at the beginning or end of each day
  • Give civil rights presentations to elementary students, at PTA meetings and school board meetings
  • Have a pizza party to encourage new members to attend
  • Have diversity day, week or month
  • Bulletins boards with different civil rights themes
  • Potluck lunch/supper with different ethnic foods
  • Celebrate different religious or national holidays of other cultures ("Holiday Halls")
  • Post a multi-cultural calendar on school bulletin board
  • Create civil rights poster and hang it up in every classroom, hallway and locker rooms, restrooms, gym and cafeteria
  • Design and print cards, stickers, pencils, magnets with a slogan to promote tolerance and diversity awareness to raise money for team
  • Have an assembly on civil rights for the whole school
  • Post the Mission Statement where everybody can read it - let students and teachers know what we do
  • Go on field trips with the whole team
  • Have icebreaker exercises at meetings so everyone gets involved
  • Post positive messages on bulletin boards throughout the school
  • Do skits for younger>
  • Share ideas that have been successful with other teams
  • Schedule a staff in-service training on civil rights so all staff members support the Team and know how to intervene and/or keep an eye/ear open at all times
  • Post the Maine Civil Rights Law on a large bulletin board
  • Include civil rights presentation at Freshmen orientation
  • Quote of the Day Have an interactive theatre group go to classrooms and do skits
  • Educate school on different cultures
  • Diversity dance - bring in different styles of music
  • Have a poster contest with prizes
  • Invite speakers from different cultures to do workshops
  • Display "rules" that let people know what behaviors are "okay" or "not okay"
  • Apply for small grants to fund civil rights activities and projects
  • Have the Team visit homerooms and explain what the civil rights team does
  • Have a "switch places" day
  • Diversity stations in school
  • Create a section of "yellow pages" for civil rights contacts
  • Have foreign exchange student speak/share experiences and perceptions
  • Student panel - discussion of interventions, solutions and acceptance
  • Have a suggestion box in the school
  • Hold diversity "Sports Day", "Song Day", "Dress Day"
  • Hold a talent show with civil rights/diversity theme
  • Invite grandparents to come in and share traditions from their culture
  • Post a map with all nationalities represented in the school
  • "Faces of Diversity" bulletin board
  • Work with librarian to get books of different cultures and civil rights history in school library
  • Create a civil rights website with other civil rights links
  • Design a CRTeam t-shirt to promote team and raise money
  • Have a fashion show featuring all cultures represented in the school
  • Schedule "Live Chats"
  • Intervention Cards: "warning cards" & "acts of kindness cards"