Grade+9+GC+Projects+2013

=Generation Citizen Projects Spring 2013=

Aufiero || 4 - High school homeroom policy Period 4 sought to enact change withing their school by equalizing and standardizing homeroom policies, including tardy policies, for all ninth grade students.
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 * Damian

**Outcome -** Winner, Change Makers award, Civics Day 2013.

The project started initially as a way to make the student tardies in school diminish and to increase student time in classes early in the day. Through research students discovered that different teachers applied the school's homeroom policy in different ways. As a result of this project, the school adopted a change to their attendance-taking protocol. Teachers with homerooms can now mark students "tardy" as well as "present" and "absent." This has significantly reduced the lines for late-morning check-ins, and has created an effected, egalitarian method of tracking attendance in homerooms across the school. || 2 Period 2 focused on ways to improve youth conflict resolution, including promoting a peaceful atmosphere within their community and non-violent conflict resolution. || 3 Peer mentoring program Period 3 took action to create a program of peer mentorship for struggling high school students in danger of failing classes and dropping out, utilizing local community leaders for their plan. || 4 High school homeroom policy Period 4 sought to enact change withing their school by equalizing and standardizing homeroom policies, including tardy policies, for all ninth grade students. || Brown || Period 1: Re-use/Recycle: Plastic Bottles Students in Miss Brown’s Period 3 class chose Recycling as their topic and chose to focus on Bottles. Instead of just collecting bottles, students decided to re-purpose bottles and create piggy banks and noise makers. Students plan to give them as gifts throughout the school and to give people other ideas for how to repurpose unused bottles!
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 * Dana Marie

|| Period 2: Mental Health Awareness Students in Miss Brown’s Period 2 class chose Mental Health Awareness as their topic. Students researched the issue, read the famous short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper” and began creating an informational pamphlet on the topic to be distributed to various offices throughout the school. They also plan to speak with experts in the coming weeks.

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 * Bottle Collection/Recycling || Period 4: Bullying ||

Malden pedestrian safety || period 4: youth violence prevention || period 5: community garden || period 6: drivers education availability || Reduce, Reuse, Recycling - alternative uses for everyday items 
 * Kerry Veritas || period 3:
 * Ann Pember || Period 3

Students researched various ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle items at home and school. They reuse cardboard from teachers who sell candy in school and created a wall reminder for other students to also reduce, reuse, and recycle.

Ms. Pember's GC page || Period 5 Coping with violence in the news



After the tragic events of the Newtown elementary school shooting and the Boston Marathon bombings, students research the root of violence and ways to cope with post-traumatic stress. They created “Malden Strong” t-shirts and sold them to raise money for the One Fund, selling 111 shirts and donating $843 to the victims.

Ms. Pember's GC page || Period 6 Gay Marriage and the Constitution



Students researched various definitions of marriage and the pros and cons of gay marriage, connecting it back to the Constitution. They surveyed the school to get a sense of how students at Malden view this topic and divided their surveys by racial group, and grade/age.

Ms. Pember's GC page ||  || 8th/9th Grade Transitions
 * Kevin Kilbride || Block 5

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http://kilbride62013.wikispaces.com/ ||  ||   || //**Teen Mental Health Awareness**//
 * Greg Hurley || //**Period 1**//

Students began a social awareness program to help students receive the mental health counseling services they need when facing mental health issues. They met with School Social Workers and began a club who works to promote the work of social workers, help students in need connect with those social workers, and work to support organizations which provide mental health services for teens in need.

http://team-mentalhealth.wikispaces.com/Teen+Education+About+Mental+health

@http://teenmentalhealthmhs.blogspot.com/ || **//Period 7//**
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 * //on Malden Streets//**

Students sought out collaboration with the City of Malden to improve safety and walk-ability in the city for students on their way to and from school as well as the general public. Students partnered with the Malden Mayor's Advisory Committee for Walkability to encourage a greater awareness of students as they walk to school and to work with the committee to improve Malden as a more walk-able city. The students provided feedback and consultation to the committee on the creation of the new way-finding signs, an example of which is below.



H.A.L.T.S ||  ||   || Organ Donation: raise awareness to get teens to register to be a donor when get their drivers license; propose changes to Mass curriculum frameworks for Bio and Health classes; targeted drivers ed schools to include in their courses http://mhsorgandonation.weebly.com/ ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Wendy Bendle || Period 4: