Photo Gallery: No Name-Calling Week 2007 at Northgate Middle School
Mar 16, 2007
The Grand Prize Winner of the School or School District Entry (Grades 5-8) category of this year's Creative Expression Contest was Northgate Middle School, located in the North Kansas City School District in Kansas City, Missouri. Northgate Middle School demonstrated in their entry extensive plans to carry out school-wide activities around issues of name-calling and respect over the span of a six-week period. Included in their proposal was a Peer Leaders/Peer Mediation program, a door-decorating contest around the theme of name-calling, and a library display on inclusiveness, among other things.
As part of their prize package, Northgate received a visit from the author of the book The Misfits, James Howe. During the week of January 22-26, Mr. Howe, along with various GLSEN staff members traveled to Kansas City to see all the wonderful anti-bullying work going on at Northgate. The author spoke to the students about their own experiences with name-calling and shared with them some of the reasons why he wrote The Misfits and became involved with the No Name-Calling Week project.
Below are photographs highlighting the visit to the school. We want to once again offer congratulations to the students and staff at Northgate for a job well done!
No Name-Calling Week at Northgate Middle School
North Kansas City School District, Kansas City, Mo.
Northgate students decorated classroom doors with anti-bullying images and words
A display of James Howe books set up in the Northgate library for students to borrow
Author James Howe, Northgate Community Resource Specialist Kate Sargent, and GLSEN staff members gather in the school library
Informational No Name-Calling Week materials made available to North Kansas City School District administrators at an afternoon tea with James Howe
James Howe discusses The Misfits with a group of sixth grade students at Northgate Middle School
Local district librarians meet with author James Howe to discuss his books and the No Name-Calling Week program
Northgate Middle School shares news of their first place win in the Creative Expression Contest School or School District category with an announcement to the community
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No Name-Calling Week 2008 is made possible, in large part, by a generous grant from Cisco Systems.