UCLS Middle School Diversity Day
On January 26th, 7th and 8th grade students participated in a day-long workshop that addressed issues of equity and diversity in both the school community and larger society. Students participated in whole group activities as well as small group discussions surrounding aspects of diversity. These activities and discussions were facilitated by Lab School faculty members, current lead facilitators from the NAIS Student Diversity Leadership Conference (SDLC), and U-High students who have attended SDLC in the past.
The 8th grade workshop focused on questions of identity: How do I identify myself? How am I identified by others? How can we work to make this school more accepting of the various identities in our school?
8th grade students displaying their poster from the Creating Empowerment and Change activity
The 7th grade workshop explored issues of inclusion and exclusion: Who is included/excluded in our school and why? How does language promote/hinder inclusion and exclusion? What can we do to make this school a more inclusive place?
7th grade students writing responses to the question "How can my teachers and peers make this school environment more comfortable and inclusive for me?"
7th grade students taking time to journal during small group discussions
posted by Charlotte Jacobs at
10:54 AM
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On diversity day, everyone at first was happy because they thought this was an easy way out of all their afternoon classes. Wrong. I knew that this was not just a thing we were doing, I thought that we were probably going to have to think about lab and the students and teachers, and what effects what, and why. Hence the name: "Middle School Diversity Day". It wasn't going to be just a movie, especially because we had "discussion groups", and what were we going to discuss, shoes? the latest movie? No. Of course not.
During the part where we went to parts of the room to voice our opinion about certain statements, I noticed that when there were statements like "I believe that bullying is not a problem at lab", all of the people that were bullies would go to the disagree side, most likely not realizing that they were the issue.
Periods 8-9
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