Heritage Panel: Empowering youth to create change in their schools
The Heritage Panel Program is a fun, yet intensive, two-day training for area middle and high schools during which a diverse group of 25 to 30 students and 2-5 teachers or administrators make a commitment to discouraging bullying, harassment, and discrimination at their school.
Over the course of the training, teachers and students will discuss important, but often ignored, issues that affect their school experience, such as cliques, race, gender, cultural backgrounds, and exclusion. Deep discussion, fun games, and team-building exercises bring the group closer.
Following the training, Heritage Panelists share what they have learned through presentations given to their classmates. Heritage Panelists share their personal experiences, and a teacher-moderated discussions with the audience follows. Students are challenged to think about how their actions affect school culture, and what steps they can take to change their school for the better.
Many schools have a Heritage Panel Club that meets regularly. Heritage Panelists become positive role models within the school and are often sought out by other students as confidants or mentors in dealing with issues at school. Presentations may also be given to an assortment of classes across grade levels and subject areas, as well as to the PTA and to community organizations.
Over the course of the training, teachers and students will discuss important, but often ignored, issues that affect their school experience, such as cliques, race, gender, cultural backgrounds, and exclusion. Deep discussion, fun games, and team-building exercises bring the group closer.
Following the training, Heritage Panelists share what they have learned through presentations given to their classmates. Heritage Panelists share their personal experiences, and a teacher-moderated discussions with the audience follows. Students are challenged to think about how their actions affect school culture, and what steps they can take to change their school for the better.
Many schools have a Heritage Panel Club that meets regularly. Heritage Panelists become positive role models within the school and are often sought out by other students as confidants or mentors in dealing with issues at school. Presentations may also be given to an assortment of classes across grade levels and subject areas, as well as to the PTA and to community organizations.
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"Heritage panel is an ideal way to empower middle school or high school students to be leaders in making their school a more welcoming, inclusive place. additionally, educators get crucial support and new tools to teach conflict management." |
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Ambassador Heritage Panel Schools
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Alabama School of Fine Arts - 2010, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2021
Advent Episcopal School - 2017 Build Up-Ensley - 2020 Bumpus Middle - 2012, 2016 Bush Hills STEAM Academy - 2020 GW Carver High - 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022 Center Street Middle - 2011, 2013 Central High School - 2022 Chelsea High School - 2015 Clay-Chalkville High School - 2013, 2016, 2018, 2019 Cornerstone School - 2013 Erwin High - 2010 Fairfield High - 2013 Gardendale High School - 2011, 2012, 2014 Hewitt-Trussville High School - 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 Hewitt-Trussville Middle School - 2014, 2015, 2016 Hueytown High - 2009, 2011 Huffman High - 2016 Homewood High School - 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014 Homewood Middle School -2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 Irondale Middle - 2016, 2017 Indian Springs High School - 2010, 2011, 2019 Jackson-Olin - 2010, 2011 |
John Carroll Catholic High School - 2011, 2019, 2021, 2022
Jones Valley Middle School - 2019 Leeds High School - 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021 Leeds Middle - 2016 Minor High School - 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017 Montevallo High - 2021 Moody High School - 2015 Mountain Brook High School - 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016, 2018, 2019 New Hope High School - 2012, 2013, 2014 New Horizon - 2013 Parker High - 2012, 2013 Pinson Valley High School - 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021 Pleasant Grove High School - 2010, 2016, 2017, 2018 Ramsay High School - 2010, 2011, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2022 Simmons Middle School - 2018, 2019 Spain Park High School - 2018 The Altamont School - 2011, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 Thompson High - 2017 T.R. Simmons Elementary School - 2015 Wilkerson Middle - 2011 Wenonah High - 2010, 2011, 2016 Woodlawn High School - 2010, 2014 |