Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Workshop Agenda October 25, 2019

More Than Words Workshop
Oct. 25, 2019
New London Science and Tech High School

7:45 Groton STA bus picks up Fitch High students
8:00 Groton STA bus picks up Ledyard High student
8:15 Students arrive at New London Sci. and & Tech High
8:30 Icebreakers
-Movement games
-Name games
-Group challenge:
9:00 MLK speeches
9:15 Review of last year
9:40 Privilege Walk -→ small groups: what does the walk illustrate? How does privilege
impact the school you attend? How does SES impact you, your school and your
community?
10:00 Intro vision for 2019-20 program: how do we support the consolidation of two middle
Schools in Groton? → Small groups: wat are the initial obstacles? How do we achieve
true integration of bot student bodies into one.
11:30 Lunch
12:00 Opinion Continuum:
-Government repose to vaping is a total overreaction
-Drug companies have been unfairly blamed for the opioid crisis
-CT efforts to legalize marijuana would be good because it would
decriminalize a harmless behavior.
12:30 Fish Bowl: high school do not have a legitimate voice in their schools.
1:10 Bus departs NL Sci. & Tech HS
1:45 Drop of Ledyard High students
2:00 Drop of Fitch High Students