Do the Write Thing
At the beginning of an academic year, educators facilitate middle school students in alleviating violence in their communities through NCSV-sponsored discussion and introspection. These activities, aligned with the common core to enhance the content curriculum, aim to amplify student voices, reinforce a sense of community, and propel their communities to make changes.
How Do We Tackle Youth Violence
At the beginning of an academic year, educators facilitate middle school students in alleviating violence in their communities through NCSV-sponsored discussion and introspection. These activities, aligned with the common core to enhance the content curriculum, aim to amplify student voices, reinforce a sense of community, and propel their communities to make changes.
Writing Prompts
The DtWT programs consists of three questions, allowing middle school students to reflect and
Work published
You’ll be able to utilize or recycle supplies you already have at home to complete lesson activities. We’ll provide you with alternative options as well.
Classroom Discussions
Our activities are designed to keep your child engaged, whether it’s learning how to draw the solar system or memorizing a song about the seasons.
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For the Little Kids club, each weekly schedule consists of fun video learning activities. These include learning new words and numbers, counting, and dancing.
Why Writing?
For many students it is the first time that they have expressed themselves about how violence impacts them. Writing becomes a very cathartic and therapeutic experience. They are able to take a very personal and sometimes painful experience, put it down on paper and then move forward.
No one likes to be marginalized. Our young students have experiences, thoughts and insights that they want to share. They want to be listened to and through writing we can be invited into their world.
Young people get excited about writing when it is something directly related to them, not something abstract or academic, but something that personally affects them. Everyone has a story to tell and middle school students are open to writing about a subject that is of interest to them—themselves.
Why Middle
Why Middle School Students?
Certainly high school and elementary school students experience violence, but DtWT is targeted to middle school students because this age group is old enough to have had some experiences that might be shaping their life, yet not too old to be stuck in detrimental patterns. At a very vulnerable age, just when they are becoming teenagers we hope to connect with them, advancing our commitment to valuing their words. As they enter 6th, 7th and 8th grade, they have the mental acuity to process events in their world and in the world at large. It is also at this age that they are making subtle choices that can really impact their lives and DtWT can empower them to make good choices.
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1.2 Million
Students have pledged to end youth violence.
Will you join them?
Since its inception, it is estimated that nearly 2 million students have participated in the “Do the Write Thing” Challenge. More than 675,000 of these students have accepted the “Challenge” by making a written personal commitment not to engage in violence and by preparing writings on the causes of and solutions to youth violence. Their words have motivated thousands of adults across the country to volunteer their services to the program.
DtWT National Student ambassadors are transforming their communities throughout the nation. Here are just a few examples of how.