We need your help in empowering students to create safe school environments.
A student’s exposure to hate-related words or symbols at school may increase that student’s feeling of vulnerability. Discriminatory behavior in schools can create a hostile environment that is not conducive to learning and bullying can contribute to an environment of fear and intimidation in schools. The No Place for Hate® Youth Summit, a one-day workshop for 7th and 8th grade students and educators, works to empower students and faculty to build campuses of respect. During the day, participants will engage in interactive experiential exercises designed to help them recognize bias and the harm it inflicts on individuals, explore the value of diversity and improve inter-group relations. Students learn the dangers of bigotry and hatred; attendees develop post-Summit strategies to increase tolerance on their campuses, which are implemented with the help of their campus sponsors.
Over the course of two days, more than 400 middle school students and educators from over 50 schools in the Austin area will learn how to recognize bullying on their campuses and will be empowered with the tools to confront it at the No Place for Hate® Youth Summit.
The Anti-Defamation League’s No Place for Hate® program was introduced to the Austin area in 2004 and is designed to provide administrators, educators and students with the necessary resources to make anti-bias education an integral part of the school curriculum. It empowers communities to promote respect for individual differences while challenging bigotry and prejudice.
