Deb's+Unit

=Creating a Safe School Community=

Overview:
The ultimate goal is to create a safer school community. Other goals of this project are to strenghen our community, build empathy, and bring awareness to issues of diversity.

Key Skills:
 * Empathy
 * Writing
 * Analysis
 * Qualitative Research
 * Creating solutions
 * Working collaboratively

Products:

 * Building empathy essay
 * Participation in the Day of Silence and the Mix-It-Up Lunch
 * Interview of a classmate
 * Creation of a poster to promote a safe school community

Reflection:
As a PLP group, we decided to focus on Project Based Learning. Although the structure was similar to other projects I have created, the idea of starting with an essential question and then working backward was new to me. Our PLP group consists of teachers from all three divisions, and it was a true pleasure to spend time with these colleagues and to discuss and create our projects together. We followed a critical friends model in our process and I felt that every one of my colleagues was my critical friend as we worked through the process together.