March 5 - March 9, 2018
Be The change Project: 'Create Awareness' 1
The students at Lord Beaverbrook split into two different groups to create awareness throughout the school.
The first group worked to create awareness about Physical Diversity within their school This group worked with three different classes where they prepped them so they would be prepared to work with the schools Adaptive Learning Program (ALP). Each class then went on to assist an ALP class in doing physical games or board games. This project allowed the students to get to know each other in greater depths, and develop a new understanding.
Be The change Project: 'Create Awareness' 2
The second group of students created awareness about the need to understand the many different types of learning styles. The group created a puzzle montage in which students would need to work cooperatively together in order to solve, after which, the group would debrief the students about the different types of learning styles.
March 4 - March 8, 2016
Be the Change Project: 'Change at Home'
The student organizers at Lord Beaverbrook set up a booth serving reasonably priced breakfast snacks for those who might not have eaten or had time to eat breakfast. The school magazine (Babbling Brook) also interviewed the school's clubs to tackle and dispell some of the club stereotypes and promote participation in school events.
Impact: The reach was school-wide
October 12 - 16, 2015
Be the Change Project: 'Resiliency and Transitioning'
The “Be the Change” project conducted by four fall attendees was to design and deliver a workshop to 25 students in grade 9 at David Thompson, a feeder school for Lord Beaverbrook and alma mater of one of the CONNECTIONS team members. The topics included sharing ideas about resiliency and transitioning into grade 10 at a larger school and teaching about openness to diversity. They conducted a Pre and post survey, plus anecdotal evidence from Beaverbrook and David Thompson teachers; the results showed that the workshop had a positive impact on issues of resiliency and transitioning. As a result of their work, the students were invited to present the data gathered to administration and to present their workshop again the next semester.
Impact: 25 grade nine students at a feeder school
Fall 2012
Be the Change Project: Diversity Gangnam
In their "Be the Change" project, students at Lord Beaverbrook High took a page out of the Gangnam Style play book, using the upbeat song to encourage others to get involved in supporting the value in diversity and equality for all.
Fall 2011
Be the Change Project: In Their Own Words
We had a presentation to the ENTIRE STAFF- it was a PowerPoint about what we learned at connections, how it affected us, some of the things we did, what we saw were the main problems in our school, how we wanted to change it, and how we needed there help. At the end of our presentation, we presented our first project. We asked the teachers to play a video called "words are worse than sticks and stones" in period 2 on Tuesday, as it will be played in every TV in the school as well. It's this 13 year old girl who is brutally bullied, and the video is just violin music playing and her holding up signs that tell her story.
The message is powerful, it simply have music and a girl holding up signs saying how many names she gets called etc.
