ADL Offers Project Ideas and Resources for No Place for Hate®

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has a myriad of resources for educators, parents, and students looking to make their campus No Place for Hate®. 

At the top of the list is ADL's Resource Guide, which includes more than 100 ways to create a more respectful campus.  Schools use the guide with great success and find that its suggested activities go far in creating an atmosphere of inclusiveness and mutual understanding on their campuses.

Among the most popular suggestions in the guide:

• Display a poster-size version of the Resolution of Respect in a prominent area of your school and encourage people to sign it.  "I’ve seen some beautiful examples of this in our No Place for Hate® schools," says Houston-area No Place for Hate® Project Coordinator Larry Ting.  "This activity provides a way schools can remind everybody on campus that treating each other with respect and openness is very important."
• Establish a Diversity Club or Prejudice Awareness Club that serves as an umbrella organization to promote harmony and respect for differences. "On one middle school campus in Leander, what started as a small club with seven students blossomed into a 60-student organization, coordinating dozens of activities designed to open their fellow-students minds to a diversity of races, cultures, and ethnicities," says Austin-area No Place for Hate® Project Coordinator Megan Flowers.
• Have students participate in a "Mix it Up at Lunch Day".  The purpose is for students to identify, question and cross the social boundaries in their school by sitting somewhere new, with someone new, in their school cafeterias. "Mix It Up Day is  a very popular activity in the Austin area, and some schools even make it a week-long event or hold more than one Mix It Up Day a year," says Flowers. She adds: "It breaks students out of their everyday comfort zones so they get reacquainted with old friends, make new friends, and reach out to fellow students they might never meet otherwise."

For more information on these activities, or to get a resource guide, call the Austin office at 512-735-8012 or the Houston office at 713-627-3490.