|
Training-of-Trainers Update
Partners Against Hate conducted its fifth Middle School Hate Crime Prevention Training-of-Trainers conference October 27-29, 2003 in Mesa, Arizona.
read more
|
|
About PAH
Partners Against Hate offers promising education and counteraction strategies for young people and the wide range of community-based professionals who work and interact with youth, including parents, law enforcement officials, educators, and community/business leaders.
more >>
Funded by
| |
|
|
Featured Stories
Charting New Courses for Schools
"You Can't Get To A New Territory Using An Old Map." Thadius Sale's quip has deep and abiding implications for schools struggling to successfully educate an increasingly diverse student population. Given the persistent achievement gaps by race/ethnicity, socioeconomics, language, and disability, along with increasing demands for accountability that all students meet or exceed established learning standards, staff development must take on new dimensions. Traditionally, recognition of one's own cultural perspectives, beliefs, attitudes, values, and assumptions has not been addressed explicitly in staff development. Neither has staff development sought to help teachers understand mainstream American culture and how it shapes institutional practices, procedures, and policies. read more
The Mental Health Effects of Bias and Hate Violence on Children in Schools
Children from all walks of life converge in America's schools on a daily basis with the expectation that their differences will be respected, and that school will provide an environment that nurtures diversity and protects against bias, prejudice, harassment, threats and acts of violence.
Yet, according to the National Education Association, "Bullying and violence causes 160,000 fearful children to miss one or more school days each month" Bias-motivated bullying-including malicious teasing, threats, physical abuse, obscene gesturing and name-calling-can have far reaching effects on the victims of these acts. read more | |
|
|
Project Director's Note
Recently, I visited with a group of middle school students at W. Tresper Clarke Middle School in Long Island, New York. I came prepared to speak about the general evils of prejudice and to encourage the students to always treat themselves and each other with a healthy degree of respect.
But it turned out that I was the one who ended up listening. The W. Tresper Clarke students told me about their concern for people from other nations and religions in the aftermath of September 11th and how they decided to come up with a campaign to stop post-9/11 stereotyping and harassment. They called their campaign "HI HONEY" -- Hand In Hand Our Nation Embraces You. Get it?
Fueled by ignorance and fear, bias and prejudice can quickly turn into hate and violence but children are not born with prejudice and bias - they learn it.
read more
Michael T.S. Wotorson
| |
