Ending & Beginning
The Humanity Project’s Anti-bullying Through The Arts program just concluded the 2010-2011 school year with another successful presentation. This time we went to Heron Heights Elementary School in Parkland, Florida, where we worked with 410 delightful kids. They were a good crowd, respectful and receptive to our ideas about using cooperation and social connection to discourage bullying. We had lots of fun doing our anti-bullying roleplaying scenes, dancing with them to our original anti-bullying rap music and showing our anti-bullying music video, which of course also is original. (Every word and every note of Anti-bullying Through The Arts is original, in fact.)
Some of the 410 kids at our Heron Heights anti-bullying program
Soon after this presentation, I had the chance to talk to the mayor and other officials in the town of Davie, Florida about how they can get more involved with their schools — suggesting that they begin a campaign that encourages Davie parents to actively work with their kids at home and in school to stop bullying. This would begin next school year, in 2011-2012, and the officials seemed very interested in the plan. Only a few days later, the Humanity Project participated in yet another event: a Youth Summit for 300 middle school children. The Humanity Project is one of several organizations that helped plan and coordinate this summit, which is part of our work on the South Florida Anti-gang Task Force. The idea was to bring in student leaders from several schools and show them how to become “agents of change,” meaning they would work to spread positive ideas in their school about stopping gangs and bullying and other violence. Our Task Force intends to follow up with these students, trying to ensure they carry out the ideas. All in all, a busy couple of weeks for the Humanity Project as we end one school year and prepare for the next. We enjoyed the past two semesters and now we’re looking forward eagerly to the fall. Thank you to all the teachers, guidance counselors and administrators who assisted us in the past 10 months when we visited your schools. We are grateful for the chance to work with your kids!
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