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Sample Workshop Agendas
The Respect For All ProjectThe Respect For All Project (RFAP) seeks to create safe, hate-free schools and communities. A program of GroundSpark, RFAP provides youth and the adults who guide their development the tools they need to engage in age-appropriate discussions about human difference, preventing prejudice and building caring communities. |
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No two workshops look exactly the same because we work with your school or community group to customize content to your specific needs. Depending on the amount of time available, we can add to these basic agendas to meet your goals
Three-Hour Let's Get Real Workshop
90-Minute That's a Family! Workshop
Three-Hour Let's Get Real Workshop
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5 minutes |
Introductions, goals and ground rules Facilitators introduce themselves and discuss the goals and ground rules for the session, which can also be used for leading lessons or discussions with students. Facilitators introduce The Respect For All Project, a program of GroundSpark (formerly Women's Educational Media), and Let's Get Real. Facilitators explain the general content of the film and its purpose, issues that may arise as participants watch the film, and set up post-film activities. |
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5 minutes |
Icebreakers Looking at bias and building empathy. |
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10 minutes |
Why address these issues in the first place? Discuss why it is important to talk about bullying and review statistics. Examine what kinds of bullying take place at your site. Explore the unique ways in which Let's Get Real can help educators talk about bullying with young people. |
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35 minutes |
Screening of Let's Get Real |
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10 minutes |
Sentence starters Participants write down their thoughts about what they have just seen using sentence starters from the curriculum guide. Participants share their feelings in pairs or small groups first, and then all participants may share their reactions with the entire group. |
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15 minutes |
Curriculum guide review Facilitators hand out curriculum guides to each participant and discuss how exercises relate to academic standards. Discussion about when to show the film to students and how much time is needed afterward for follow up. Examine the goals of screening the film for students, as well as goals for related activities and assignments. |
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5 minutes |
Break |
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20 minutes |
Exercises and activities Facilitators model activities and assignements from the guide for the group. Facilitators participate in writing and sharing exercises about remembering a time when they were bullied, a target of racial prejudice or gender harassment. |
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25 minutes |
Effective intervention methods Participants discuss general pointers and then brainstorm how they could respond to specific situations at their site. |
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15 minutes |
Comfort levels dealing with specific issues Facilitators look at their own personal comfort levels talking about issues raised in the film, including racial differences, gender and sexual harassment, and homophobia and anti-gay slurs. Discuss ways to increase competence talking about these issues with youth. |
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10 minutes |
Two of the most common challenges from students Brainstorm how to handle students who respond that the best way to deal with bullying is to fight back or to students who say that name-calling is only joking. |
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5 minutes |
Other points to raise Review steps for creating a safe environment and the importance of classroom management. Discuss additional resources and legal obligations if a student discloses thoughts about suicide or homicide. |
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15 minutes |
Questions and next steps What challenges do participants think they will face using the film and guide with students? What are some sure-fire ways to create an effective classroom action plan? A school-wide action plan? |
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5 minutes |
Workshop Evaluation |
Ninety-Minute That's a Family! Workshop
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15 minutes |
Introductions, goals and ground rules Facilitators introduce themselves and discuss the goals and ground rules for the session, which can also be used for leading lessons or discussions with children. Facilitators introduce The Respect For All Project, a program of GroundSpark (formerly Women's Educational Media), and That's a Family! Facilitators explain the general content of the film and its purpose, issues that may arise as participants watch the film, key concepts from the film such as using the metaphors of windows and mirrors, and set up post-film activities. |
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35 minutes |
Viewing of That's a Family! |
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15 minutes |
Journal exercises and activities with a partner Participants use this time to reflect on the film and write down their thoughts, possibly with the aid of "sentence starters" provided by the trainer. Participants share their thoughts with a partner. This activity replicates what adults can do with children to encourage discussion and writing. |
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10 minutes |
Group activities Facilitators demonstrates group activities from the discussion and teaching guide that adults can use with children, such as window and mirror exercises or dialogue poems. |
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10 minutes |
Introduction to discussion and teaching guide Participants break into groups and review sections of the discussion and curriculum guide, including sections addressing general content and key concepts from the film, questions parents may ask, further activities to use with children around each type of family in the film, additional books and resources, and organizations to contact for further information. |
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10 minutes |
Question and answer session Facilitators answers questions and facilitate discussion on what the school or organization can do on-site to use That's a Family! to raise awareness of family diversity issues. |
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10 minutes |
Workshop evaluation |