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  • Students Share Their Thoughts on Bullying
    Students take time to reflect on how Not in Our School and Not in Our Town programs affected them. They discuss stereotyping, bullying, and their own experiences with intolerance.
  • No Human Being Was Born Illegal (2 min)
    Each year, Facing History teacher Jane Wooster asks the students in her classes to take on a "social action" project of their own choosing. This year, several of the students have chosen to conduct a lunch-time demonstration to draw attention to the use of the word "illegal" to describe undocumented immigrants, and start a school-wide conversation about the way immigrants are perceived in their community.
  • Students Map Bully Zones to Create a Safer School (3 min)
    At Orange High School in Pepper Pike, Ohio, students are mapping their school to locate the spaces where bullying takes place. After identifying the "bully hotspots," including the cafeteria, media lab, and locker rooms, students created a flash freeze demonstration to raise awareness about bullying, and opened the conversation about how to create a safer school.
  • Students Take On Cyberbullying (3 min)
    When Facing History teachers Jamie Lott and Mary Sok asked their World Cultures class about bullying at their school, the class described the hallways as safe. But after listening to a presentation given by hate crimes task force officer Dave D'Amico, they started a discussion about the widespread problem of online bullying, and how they as a class could take the first steps toward preventing it.
  • A Friday Night Light Against Bullying (Marshalltown, Iowa)
    High school football captains join their community in taking a Not In Our Town pledge to stand up to bullying and hate.
  • Lose Your Label (PSA)
  • We Will Destroy These Stereotypes (PSA)
  • High School Students React to Not In Our Town: Light In The Darkness
    Joe Lobozzo's class at Lakewood High School discuss the trailer of Light in the Darkness.
  • Students Take On Cyberbullying (8 min)
    When Facing History teachers Jamie Lott and Mary Sok asked their World Cultures class about bullying at their school, the class described the hallways as safe. But after listening to a presentation given by hate crimes task force officer Dave D'Amico, they started a discussion about the widespread problem of online bullying, and how they as a class could take the first steps toward preventing it.
  • Students Map Bully Zones to Create a Safer School (8 min)
    At Orange High School in Pepper Pike, Ohio, students are mapping their school to locate the spaces where bullying takes place. After identifying the "bully hotspots," including the cafeteria, media lab, and locker rooms, students created a flash freeze demonstration to raise awareness about bullying, and opened the conversation about how to create a safer school.
  • Palo Alto High Students Respond to Larry King Shooting
    Youth reactions to the violent attack of a California student
  • Angels Turn their Backs on Hate
    Newark, CA community members dress as angels to counter hate group.
  • From Dialogue to Action: Bloomington Unity in the Community Responds to KKK Flyers
    After Ku Klux Klan flyers blanket an Indiana University campus neighborhood, Rabbi Sue Silberberg leads Bloomington United as they plan a community response. This is a DVD extra from the PBS program, Not In Our Town: Class Actions. For more information on the film, visit niot.org/ClassActions
  • Students Map Bully Zones to Create a Safer School (3 min)
    At Orange High School in Pepper Pike, Ohio, students are mapping their school to locate the spaces where bullying takes place. After identifying the "bully hotspots," including the cafeteria, media lab, and locker rooms, students created a flash freeze demonstration to raise awareness about bullying, and opened the conversation about how to create a safer school.
  • Eliza Riley - ADVOCATE
    At the anniversary of the American Disabilities Act, a group of disability rights advocates march in solidarity to assert their rights as Americans and human beings. Many are here because of the work of Eliza Riley, a disability rights advocate in Silicon Valley, who has developed a youth leadership program for people with disabilities.
  • Extraordinary Upstander: Royal Chicano Air Force
  • Students Teach Students to Stand Up to Bullying
    Shaw High School students use role play to discourage bullying.
  • What Do You Say? What's in a Name?
    How do the names people call you affect the way you see yourself?
  • Lauri Massari: How We Started Not In Our School
    Learn how one middle school counselor created an anti-bullying program at her school and spread it to the entire community. This is a DVD extra from the PBS program, Not In Our Town: Class Actions. For more information on the film, visit niot.org/ClassActions
  • No Human Being Was Born Illegal (2 min)
    Each year, Facing History teacher Jane Wooster asks the students in her classes to take on a "social action" project of their own choosing. This year, several of the students have chosen to conduct a lunch-time demonstration to draw attention to the use of the word "illegal" to describe undocumented immigrants, and start a school-wide conversation about the way immigrants are perceived in their community.