This document outlines a plan for a "Peace Week" event to promote positive behavior, compassion, and mental health support for students. It recommends partnering with campus and community groups to create activities like music concerts, art projects, and guest speakers. Suggested activities aim to encourage unity, happiness, and nonviolence. The document emphasizes training student leaders and empowering students to participate. It also stresses evaluating the impact of events and networking to expand the initiative. The overall goal is to help students struggling with issues like depression, bullying, and addiction by fostering hope, love, and community.
2. 1. Purpose:
Why Peace Week? Why NOW?
• Encourage positive behavior on-line and
person to person
• We need to help solve a nationwide problem
• Students are struggling with
depression, suicidal thoughts, self
injury, bullying and addiction they need to see
peace, love and unity
• A school community should support HOPE
3. 2. Create a Plan
• Partner with a groups on campus and agencies
off-campus
• Meet with Admin team to create a plan
• Find a large group of stakeholders to help
• Brainstorm your “Peace Week” activities
• Discuss logistics with your school site personnel
and your partners
• Ask your students what activities interest them
4. 2b. Plan Activities
• Music concert: “Picnic on the Lawn”
• Campaign: “Pause before you post” – Pledge and receive a button or other type of gear
• Hostcompetition between art classes to create 2-D graphics or 3-DPeace Themed art
• Tie-Dye Party
• Dance to Peaceful Music
• Yoga or Meditation
• Host a service project
• Host a Guest Speaker
8. 4. Empower Students
• Train your Leadership Students to take the project to
the whole building for all students
• Train students to communicate with “connectors”
– Ask students and staff to share their skill and
talents
– Science Teacher that loves to Tie Dye
– Art teachers that love to create new displays
– Students create lots of amazing publicity materials
– The chair-people, leadership students and club
presidents encourage their groups to participate
9. 4b. Empower and Expand
• Students can present to the staff and freshmen during assemblies
• Partner with another agency to help with Yoga or Meditation
• Ask clubs to participate: Ukulele, Yoga, Dance Class, Dance Team
• Train students on positive behavior: “Hello”, “Please” etc.
• Use mail, e-mail, internet, school website, media to spread the message
• Partner with non-profits interested in ending bullying
11. 5.Network
• Establish more partners to help with your project
• Train and inform the entire Staffulty, we added Mutual Respect Month in
January
• Other schools in your area
• CADA members and Staff
• Mix it up Day – Teaching Tolerance
• To Write love on her arms
• Trevor Project
• Rachels Challenge
• Invisible Children
• Dahn Center
• Jostens
• “Pause Before you Post”
12. EVALUATE & REFLECT
• After every event gather data, record feedback
(“positives” and “deltas”)
• What did you do well?
• How can you make it better?
• How can you include more people into your
project?
• What pieces can you add next time?
Celebrate and share your results!
