Newark C.H.S.D. 18 Interacting with Integrity

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created by members of the IWI team.

The Interacting with Integrity (IWI) team has been preparing for NCHS’s first Violence Prevention Week. Recently team members conducted an after-school staff development session for teachers. The team outlined the proposed events planned for Violence Prevention Week and had teachers experience some of the scheduled activities. The team also shared with the teachers their plans to visit Aurora East High to experience life in a large suburban high school with a culturally diverse student body. The IWI members wrote and were awarded a grant from the Illinois Violence Prevention Authority which funds their activities.

Workshops For Teachers

The 2006-2007 Interacting with Integrity Team conducts a workshop during after-school development session.

The Team conducted a workshop during an after-school development in order to inservice the teachers on the upcoming Newark Violence Prevention Week. Students explained the agenda for the week, focusing on the following topics:

- anger management
- diversity
- values clarification
- self-esteem/self-concept
- cultural sensitivity
- harrassment/bullying

Students led the teachers in an activity to demonstrate the types of activities the student body would participate in during the violence prevention week.

Team Visits Culturally Diverse High School

The team spent a day shadowing students at a larger, more culturally diverse suburban high school in order to learn how to validate, accept, understand, and celebrate cultural differences. They spent first period getting to know each other, followed a class schedule for periods 2-9, and attended a school assembly on violence prevention. At the end of the day the students came back together to process their day.

Team Facilitates Activities at NCHS

An Interacting with Integrity Team member leads a group discussion about cultural sensitivity.

Students led the events for this week. They planned activities and facilitated these activities and discussions during homeroom each day in order to increase an awareness of self and others with the hope of preventing prejudice, harrassment, and violence. Students shared their thoughts from their shadowing experience.