Community School District 12
1000 Jennings Street
Bronx, NY 10460
Contact: Alan Godlowicz
Telephone: 718-328-2310
Fax: 718-842-8026
Our Extended Day/School Violence Prevention Program will actively engage students in activities such as role playing, writing songs, inventing games (with rules), creating simple puppets for enacting scenes, group performances, reading and performing skits, writing stories, creating comic strips, building communities, enacting laws and holding court, developing them related school products and projects, transforming spaces for new uses, and painting murals as avenues to explore alternative means of dealing with conflict. Other activities resolve around gaining an insight into behavior. Students will be provided with opportunities to set goals, create possibilities in seemingly impossible situations, develop trust, analyze values and appreciate others.
Project activities will also focus on improving self-esteem. Students learn about the concepts of responsibility, group needs, goal orientation, decision-making, and self-magnificence. Our program will provide our schools with a wide array of dynamic methodologies including theater arts, story telling, and wide technology applications to teach youngsters about the dangers of violence and how to build their resistance to risk factors. The counseling program focuses on violence and how to build their resistance to risk factors. The counseling program focuses on building confidence and resiliency to peer pressures, developing decision-making, and problem-solving skills so that children may make positive choices, and the physiological aspects of violence. In addition, students will be involved in activities which focus on the value of clear communication, students learn to communicate in positive terms and to speak for themselves, and to express their feelings, to ask, to question, and to interpret.
The proposed project will involve the following four highly experienced not-for-profit agencies:
- Counseling in Schools - The agency will provide mediation skills Training at middle school sites.
- Periwinkle National Theater - They will provide a theater arts program stressing violence prevention skills for elementary school pupils and their parents.
- Vision Education - They will provide a projects-based program for students using a variety of technology applications that will promote the effective learning of standards-based content in the core curriculum areas of English language arts and mathematics.
- Singers Forum - The organization will provide an ensemble-based workshop at two sites. Its program introduces children to the fascinating world of musical performance.
In summary, the project targets five schools that are working diligently to help all pupils learn challenging State content. The proposed program will help students to learn nonviolent conflict resolution skills and enhance self-esteem (through arts and sports activities) that are critical to successful teaching and learning.
**Program Site**
Community School 44
Principal: Ms. Mildred Jones
Public School 57
Principal: Mr. Edsel Phillips
Public School 67
Principal: Mr. Joseph Cerabona
Public School 134
Principal: Mr. Kenneth Thomas
Intermediate School 98
Principal: Alan Geller
Funded Organization:
Community School District #12