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No Place For Hate Pledge Signings and Activities

School Pledge Activity One Activity Two Activity Three
Aviara Oaks Elementary  

Building an Inclusive Class Community: Classroom activities about how all of us can include each other.

Example: All of Us Quilt-2nd Grade (9/11/23-9/29/23)

Mean moments, Conflicts, and Bullying: Students learn about bullying and how to respond. Students also learned about how it feels to be a target of bullying as well as the role of a bystander and about becoming an upstander.  4th and 5th grade students watched this video as part of this lesson. 3rd grade students watched this video as part of this lesson.

(9/31/23-10/2/23 - this activity was approved retroactively based on efforts related to National Bullying Prevention Month).

  Read Across Aviara. A week-long event that focuses on learning from and about others in our community -- what makes AOE's community special! One thing that makes us special is the diverse languages that our students and families speak other than English - Spanish, Hebrew, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, Farsi, Russian, and Korean to name a few. This event will celebrate what our students and families bring to our community.
Buena Vista Elementary School

Buena Vista Pledge 

Students from the site No Place for Hate Committee presented the pledge to classrooms and students had the opportunity to sign the pledge.  (12/19/23)
For their first activity, Buena Vista focused on the importance of empathy and the negative impact of hurtful language. Buena Vista hosted a Compassion Day on January 23rd.   For their third activity, Buena Vista did an activity in K-2 about the importance of using kind words.  For 3rd-5th graders, the activity focused on peer pressure and decision making.
Calavera Hills Elementary School CHE organized their student pledge during an assembly on January 12th.   For their 1st activity, CHE held their Compassion Day on 1/24/24.      
Hope Elementary Hope Elementary used individual hands to creatively pledge to treat others with kindness and speak up against bullying. Hope students engaged in a lesson on empathy for their first NPFH Activity throughout the month of December.    
Jefferson Elementary

Jefferson Pledge

4th and 5th grade students at Jefferson met with students on in each class to share the commitment to treat each other with kindness.  They signed the pledge using their finger prints so that all students could participate. (10/18/23)

 Jefferson Elementary focused its first activity on inclusion, empathy, and kind words.  Activities were organized by grade level (TK-1, 2-3, and 4-5). In response to student survey data and staff feedback, Jefferson will focus with TK-3rd grade on kind acts and being a HEART friend (Helpful, Encouraging, Accepting, Respectful, and Trustworthy) supported by the reading of Be Kind. In 4th and 5th grade, with the support of the book The Judgemental Flower, will focus on acceptance and improving communication to build positive relationships.    
Kelly Elementary

Kelly Pledge

Kelly Elementary students completed the pledge as part of their Compassion Day Activity.

Compassion Day Kelly

Compassion Day: Kelly Elementary implemented their annual Compassion Day. All students experienced rotations and activities aimed at helping them understand what it may be like to experience a disability. Stations included experience with physical disabilities, communication with an AAC device scavenger hunt, a focus station to experience ADD/ADHD, and a zones of regulation station. Student participation in the stations was followed up with in-class discussion. (10/6/23)

 For their 2nd activity, Kelly Elementary focused on the power we all have to make a positive impact on campus with a focus on the expectations we all have for our behavior at recess and lunch.  Free play provides students with endless opportunities to showcase collaboration, inclusiveness, and kindness.  For this activity, Kelly’s counselor worked with every class to reflect on our behavior during free play time and review expectations at Kelly Elementary.  
Magnolia Elementary

Magnolia Pledge

5th grade students presented the No Place for Hate Pledge to each classroom on 1/25/23

 

 

 For their first activity, Magnolia focused on the importance of empathy and the negative impact of hurtful language. For their 2nd activity, Magnolia hosted Compassion Day.   For their third activity, Magnolia did an activity in K-2 about the importance of using kind words.  For 3rd-5th graders, the activity focused on peer pressure and decision making.
Pacific Rim Elementary

 

Pacific Rim Pledge

Pacific Rim students signing the Pledge.

 

 The school counselor led the Scoot Game which focuses on acceptance.  Students review different scenarios in a fast paced game with the goal of practicing acceptance, while providing students with a clear understanding of acceptance. The school counselor led class activities, using the Salem Witch Trials as historical example, to illustrate how people have judged others before seeking to understand another person, emphasizing the negative effects of rumors.

The school counselor will lead a lesson on the power of words. 

Find the lesson here.
Poinsettia Elementary Pointsettia students presented the No Place for Hate Pledge to students in each class on January 29th. In response to student survey data and staff feedback, Poinsettia will focus with TK-3rd grade on kind acts and being a HEART friend (Helpful, Encouraging, Accepting, Respectful, and Trustworthy) supported by the reading of Be Kind. In 4th and 5th grade, with the support of the book The Judgemental Flower, will focus on acceptance and improving communication to build positive relationships.   Students in 1st – 5th grade will read the book The Buddy Bench and then discuss the purpose of our Buddy Bench at our school. Students will review the various times to use the buddy bench and what to do if they see someone sitting there. Students will discuss how they think the buddy bench will impact the overall environment at this school. For TK/K students, we will be reading Strictly No Elephants. The book discusses welcoming others, no matter where they are from or what they look like. Students will learn 6 different ways to welcome their peers at school. Students will discuss how they can welcome each other at school and complete a coloring worksheet at the end.  

Aviara Oaks Middle School

 Aviara Oaks Middle School held its pledge signing on December 12th, 2023. At AOMS, students learned about the different cultures on campus and in the community.  Through understanding others, students are taught to be upstanders.  (Example: from 6th grade). At AOMS, school counselors have implemented empathy circles to respond to student survey feedback.   Empathy circles are intended to improve student to student communication and empathy for each other.  (AOMS Empathy Circles Slides)  
Calavera Hills Middle School CHMS students learned about the No Place for Hate Pledge the week of December 1st: Student Video CHMS: Everyone Has a Story: The Identity Iceberg.  Students at CHMS will take part in an activity in advisory classes about the importance of getting to know others through this slideshow. Students on the CHMS No Place for Hate Committee focused on responding to identity-based bullying through their creation of a slideshow and Kahoot.  
Valley Middle School VMS students learned about the No Place for Hate Pledge the week of December 4th: Student Presentation. For their first activity, VMS focused on building positive environments through art.  See more using this slideshow. For their second activity, VMS will share the Identity Iceberg lesson in pursuit of inclusion, belonging, and unity.  
Carlsbad High School On 11/27/23, CHS organized the signing of the No Place for Hate Pledge through advisory using this activity. On 1/08/23, CHS held its first activity with a focus on micro-aggressions in a lesson in advisory. Students will view this slideshow to engage with the topic in advisory. For their 2nd activity, the No Place for Hate team at CHS focused on helping students and staff understand and empathize with others who are neurodivergent and/or disabled.  The activity was completed in three parts. First, a classroom activity, then an inclusivity assembly, and finally students will share stories/experiences with ableism, or harassment due to their disability or for being neurodivergent.  These stories will then be shared on CHSTV.  
Sage Creek High School SCHS will be signing the No Place for Hate on January 24th, 2024. Wordslam Activity #1- During Advisory on 2/28- Display in Library- Slide Deck On March 27th, students participated in an activity on Bias in Our Everyday Lives (ADL Lesson, Slide Deck). The full lesson was condensed for time and coincided with two new activities organized by the No Place for Hate student groups.  One is a social media campaign called “Humans of Sage Creek” and the other is an episode on The Sage highlighting some of the work some of our clubs are doing in challenging bias on campus. This lesson also has an optional home component called “Table Talk: Family Conversations at Home”. If you’re interested in continuing the conversation after the lesson at home, you can access the resource here.  
Carlsbad Village Academy A student-created video showcased the school-wide pledge for No Place for Hate at CVA and CSA.      
Carlsbad Seaside Academy A student-created video showcased the school-wide pledge for No Place for Hate at CVA and CSA.      

 

Additional Information on Forward Together Efforts:

 

  • Part of our CUSD Forward Together efforts is sharing that, despite our differences, we often have more in common than might be initially apparent.  A common metaphor for explaining this is through the concept of an Iceberg–where there is more below the surface than is at first recognizable above the surface.  Sites may utilize this ADL Identity Iceberg lesson or some variation of the concept when helping students better understand themselves and others in pursuit of inclusion, belonging, and unity.