Students at a Twin Cities middle school with Emotional Behavioral Disabilities (EBD) working to improve their community through work of Public Achievement.
They are radically changing the idea of special education and what students with labels are truly capable of...

Friday, December 16, 2011

Mini Celebration Day

As a way to help continue to build relationships within the PA teams and with the coaches- we are holding a mini celebration today on the groups progress so far! Above is a picture of 2 students working together to finish a poster that is a part of their presentation... More updates after they present!

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

The work continues...

The students working on a powerpoint presentation of their progress.

On Friday, December 16, the students will be presenting to fellow classmates about their topics, goals and what they have learned so far this year.  We have had a new student join the group this week, another 8th grader and the only girl in the group. She excelled at organizing and leading the group and so far the group has been very accepting of her.
Today the students were discussing what they want to share about their work so far.  They talked about obvious things such as their team name: The Bully Bosses, their slogan: just stoppin' it and their goal: to help reduce bullying at their school. 
They also decided they wanted to share what they are learning about how to work together and give respect to each other.  As our newest member pointed out, "it's important to show that we are learning to be nice and work together so people don't think we are hypocrites. Also, if we can do, anybody can do it!"

They continue to amaze me in these moments.




Thursday, December 1, 2011

A word FROM one of our students...

Introducing Anthony to the blog...



Since we started doing public achievement this year we have had our ups and downs such as some of us, including me, disagree but we eventually come to an agreement. Since we started PA we have gone a long way. Last year we worked on homelessness but now we are working on bullying and we think bullying important because of the suicides and the shootings at schools. This year we haven’t done much but we will do some things we are planning to do. Some of our plans are going to try to talk to other school principals and we are going to try putting anti-bullying posters in our school and videos. We might start a facebook group also anti-bullying and a hotline for kids to ask questions.