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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"