CALEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TO BE DESIGNATED NO PLACE …€¦ · Projects completed throughout this...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, June 6, 2016 Contact: Steven Van Mater, Principal, Caley Elementary School, 610-205- 3650, [email protected] Lisa Friedlander, No Place for Hate ® Project Director, 215-568-2223 or [email protected] CALEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TO BE DESIGNATED NO PLACE FOR HATE SCHOOL AFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO PROMOTING RESPECT FOR DIVERSITY AND ANTI-BIAS EFFORTS. WHAT: In a special ceremony on Tuesday, June 7, the students and faculty at Caley Elementary School will celebrate their school’s designation as No Place for Hate, having completed a year of anti-bias and anti-bullying programs. Lisa Friedlander, No Place for Hate Project Director, will attend the ceremony and present the school with its official designation banner. To earn this distinction, the school formed a No Place for Hate committee, adopted a resolution pledging to create a more inclusive school, and implemented a number of projects promoting respect for differences. Projects completed throughout this year at Caley Elementary School all connected to the school’s Community of Caring philosophy. The first project, The Respect Program, is an assembly that emphasized to students the importance of respect and how it relates to the world around them. They also revisited their Community of Caring values of respect, responsibility, caring, trust, and family and their Positive Action Curriculum (thoughts, actions, feelings). At the conclusion of the assembly, they held post-project discussions in small learning communities asking students to answer the question: “How do we respect others?” For their second project, they held another assembly called Band Against Bullying, with the purpose of spreading the message that by working together we can band together to stop bullying. They promoted the strategies of “Recognize It. Refuse It. Report It” through bracelets, essays and class discussions. For their final project, they held Classroom Guidance lessons addressing topics of expected vs. unexpected ways to treat friends, tattling vs. telling, empathy, teasing, bullying, ways to turn a bystander into an upstander, how to resolve conflict peacefully and accepting and respecting differences. This is the second year that Caley Elementary School will receive its designation banner. It joins Upper Merion Area High School as one of the two schools in the district to earn this designation. The schools are part of more than 230 schools and organizations across eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and Delaware currently participating in the No Place for Hate program, following Governor Ed Rendell’s endorsement in 2006. WHEN AND WHERE: Tuesday, June 7, 2016 @ 2:30 PM
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, June 6, 2016
Contact: Steven Van Mater, Principal, Caley Elementary School, 610-205-3650, [email protected] Lisa Friedlander, No Place for Hate® Project Director, 215-568-2223 or [email protected]
CALEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TO BE DESIGNATED NO PLACE FOR HATE
SCHOOL AFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO PROMOTING RESPECT FOR DIVERSITY AND ANTI-BIAS EFFORTS.
WHAT: In a special ceremony on Tuesday, June 7, the students and faculty at Caley Elementary
School will celebrate their school’s designation as No Place for Hate, having completed a year of anti-bias and anti-bullying programs. Lisa Friedlander, No Place for Hate Project Director, will attend the ceremony and present the school with its official designation banner. To earn this distinction, the school formed a No Place for Hate
committee, adopted a resolution pledging to create a more inclusive school, and implemented a number of projects promoting respect for differences. Projects completed throughout this year at Caley Elementary School all connected to the school’s Community of Caring philosophy. The first project, The Respect Program, is an assembly that emphasized to students the importance of respect and how it relates to the world around them. They also revisited their Community of Caring values of respect, responsibility, caring, trust, and family and their Positive Action Curriculum (thoughts, actions, feelings). At the conclusion of the assembly, they held post-project discussions in small learning communities asking students to answer the question: “How do we respect others?” For their second project, they held another assembly called Band Against Bullying, with the purpose of spreading the message that by working together we can band together to stop bullying. They promoted the strategies of “Recognize It. Refuse It. Report It” through bracelets, essays and class discussions. For their final project, they held Classroom Guidance lessons addressing topics of expected vs. unexpected ways to treat friends, tattling vs. telling, empathy, teasing, bullying, ways to turn a bystander into an upstander, how to resolve conflict peacefully and accepting and respecting differences.
This is the second year that Caley Elementary School will receive its designation banner. It joins Upper Merion Area High School as one of the two schools in the district to earn this designation. The schools are part of more than 230 schools and organizations across eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and Delaware currently participating in the No Place for Hate program, following Governor Ed Rendell’s endorsement in 2006.
WHEN AND WHERE:
Tuesday, June 7, 2016 @ 2:30 PM
Caley Elementary School 725 Caley Road King of Prussia, PA 19406
The No Place for Hate program was developed by the Anti-Defamation League to provide a model for challenging bigotry and
intolerance in schools and organizations. To learn more about No Place for Hate visit www.noplaceforhate.org.
1500 Market Street · Suite 2415, West Tower · Philadelphia, PA 19102 · Phone (215) 568-2223 · Fax (215) 568-5526 http://philadelphia.adl.org
