Students Install Anti-Discrimination Awareness Posters Throughout the City!
During the past five years, CRLS students in the RSTA Creative Design program have been utilizing their design skills to take a stand against discrimination. The Anti-Discrimination Awareness Poster Campaign offers Creative Design students the opportunity to use their design skills to create public statements with the express intention of promoting diversity and ending discrimination.
During this project students use design as a mechanism for social change as they make public statements against a type of discrimination in the form of a poster. The goal of this project is for students to become self-reflective around the ways discrimination permeates our society. By finding creative design solutions students will begin to identify ways to help combat discrimination.
The RSTA Creative Design program has been creating Anti-Discrimination Awareness posters with the intention of promoting diversity and ending discrimination for the past five years. Unfortunately funding had not been available for the dissemination of these posters throughout Cambridge until now. Last year, Creative Design teacher, Michele Watson Maxwell submitted a grant proposal to the Friends of Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School FOCRLS Faculty grant review committee. The grant was awarded the maximum funding available and students began preparations for disseminating these semi-permanent displays (which include a set of 15 posters) throughout the elementary schools, City Hall, the High School Extension School, and the Superintendents office.
The $1000 FOCRLS Faculty Grant both energized and enhanced the existing curriculum by continuing to challenge and engage students in higher level thinking around social design problems. By having the Creative Design students disseminate the posters throughout Cambridge, students were able to see first had the impact that their Anti-Discrimination posters have upon their schools, community, and city.
Recently, with the help and organization skills of Melody Brazo (Welcoming Schools Cambridge School Climate Coordinator, Citywide LGBT Family Liaison Cambridge Public Schools) and the support of Dr. Michael Ananis (RSTA Executive Director) students completed 12 school site installations, including City Hall and the High School Extension School.
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During this project students use design as a mechanism for social change as they make public statements against a type of discrimination in the form of a poster. The goal of this project is for students to become self-reflective around the ways discrimination permeates our society. By finding creative design solutions students will begin to identify ways to help combat discrimination.
The RSTA Creative Design program has been creating Anti-Discrimination Awareness posters with the intention of promoting diversity and ending discrimination for the past five years. Unfortunately funding had not been available for the dissemination of these posters throughout Cambridge until now. Last year, Creative Design teacher, Michele Watson Maxwell submitted a grant proposal to the Friends of Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School FOCRLS Faculty grant review committee. The grant was awarded the maximum funding available and students began preparations for disseminating these semi-permanent displays (which include a set of 15 posters) throughout the elementary schools, City Hall, the High School Extension School, and the Superintendents office.
The $1000 FOCRLS Faculty Grant both energized and enhanced the existing curriculum by continuing to challenge and engage students in higher level thinking around social design problems. By having the Creative Design students disseminate the posters throughout Cambridge, students were able to see first had the impact that their Anti-Discrimination posters have upon their schools, community, and city.
Recently, with the help and organization skills of Melody Brazo (Welcoming Schools Cambridge School Climate Coordinator, Citywide LGBT Family Liaison Cambridge Public Schools) and the support of Dr. Michael Ananis (RSTA Executive Director) students completed 12 school site installations, including City Hall and the High School Extension School.
Download the Poster >>
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