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SGORR
Student Group on Race Relations
The Student Group on Race Relations (SGORR) is an organization of diverse high school students in the Shaker Heights schools that promotes positive social relations across all boundaries of difference. SGORR students are trained to facilitate discussions of diversity with Shaker’s fourth and sixth grade students, and they teach intervention activities that lead to investigations of stereotyping, discrimination, social polarization, and bullying. In addition to visiting elementary school classrooms, SGORR students also implement diversity workshops by request with adult and groups in the greater Cleveland community.
Over the course of three classroom visits, SGORR students teach interactive, hands-on activities and lead discussions with elementary students on the following themes:
• Trust, risk, and support
• Communication
• Peer pressure
• Self-image
• Perception
• Making healthy choices
• Stereotyping and polarization
• Group problem-solving
• Bullying
• Becoming an upstander
SGORR's Student-Centered Structure
SGORR is a “train-the-trainer” dissemination program, and each of the twenty student “core” leaders of SGORR trains a diverse team of ten to fifteen peers. During core meetings, student leaders facilitate and teach activities that foster a discussion of diversity, creative problem solving, peer pressure, and bullying. The core leaders then teach these facilitation skills and activities to their team members in weekly team meetings and lead the teams in presenting workshops in Shaker’s fourth and sixth grade classrooms.
Students are at the center of every aspect of SGORR; students create new curriculum for the classrooms, maintain membership lists, facilitate community workshops, plan and execute SGORR’s annual membership meeting and the all-SGORR meeting, and manage the creation of our annual publication,
The Vernacular
. Therefore, SGORR provides a wide array of leadership opportunities for high school students and allows them to work collaboratively on projects of their own design.
Classroom Visits & Curriculum
Over the course of
three visits to Shaker’s fourth and sixth grade classrooms
, SGORR aims to create an awareness of prejudices, teaches young students to identify problems caused by peer pressure, and introduces a multi-stepped approach to creative problem solving. In recent years, SGORR has also placed a special emphasis on equipping elementary students with the skills to combat bullying.
Our History
SGORR was initiated in 1983 by a group of concerned Shaker Heights High School students. Over the years, SGORR has grown from a group of fewer than fifteen students to a membership of over 250, the largest student club at Shaker Heights High School.
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Community Outreach
In addition to our work in Shaker’s elementary classrooms, SGORR members also organize and facilitate workshops with other school districts and community organizations by request.
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The Vernacular
The Vernacular
is SGORR's publication of writing from students, faculty, and community contributors.
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Testimonials
Testimonials from classroom teachers and community outreach programs.
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Contact Information
SGORR Coordinators:
Ms.T. Sargaent (
email
)
Shaker Heights High School
15911 Aldersyde Drive
Shaker Heights, Ohio 44120
(216) 295-4271
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