Carson City schools celebrate 'Week of Respect' with paper chains, drone flyovers and more
Submitted by editor on Sun, 10/08/2017 - 9:49am
With a proclamation from Nevada's governor, schools in Carson City recognized the "Week of Respect" last week, an effort designed to enhance safe and respectful learning environments at school and to call attention to ant-bullying programs.
“One primary emphasis of the program is to ‘Be an Upstander,’ which essentially encourages students to stand up and take an active role against bullying," said Carson City School Superintendent Richard Stokes.
Throughout the week, class curriculum and social activities focused on the five standards of Social and Emotional Learning while prompting students to reflect on and share personal experiences of what respect means to them, how they give and receive respect and how they react when they perceive they are being disrespected.
The “Week of Respect” highlighted skills and interactions that facilitate positive student relationships and empowers students to observe the impact they can make, simply by approaching each day from a place of treating others the way they wish to be treated, stokes said.
Some of the schools’ visually enticing events featured:
A "Respect Yourself" theme at Carson High School where students wrote and read essays aloud on what respect means to them, how they show respect and receive it. ASL students performed a Sign-A-Song of respect at lunch in Senator Square. The FCA club served free root beer floats to their fellow Senators, and Link Crew leaders promoted self-respect through posts on twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
The Week of Respect theme also brought student made posters of positive messaging and games at Senator Square. Go here for this week's Senator Square column by Phil Brady, which gives an overview and photos of CHS activities.
Meanwhile, students at Empire Elementary School and Mark Twain Elementary participated in a Rock Garden Planting Ceremony where they each placed a hand-painted stone, which symbolizes a bully-free zone to emphasize how each student will make the world a better place.
Each of the schools’ students participated in a Kindness/Respect challenge. First, the students made at least one or two paper chains, that were connected together throughout the entire school. After the chain was linked, the students observed how many feet of Kindness and Respect they’ve created. Following the paper chain display, the students lined up on the field and spell out the word “Respect,” where a drone flew above and photographed the human lettering. See the drone photos above from Fremont and Fritsch schools.
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