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• This project will encourage the Educational System to address issues of racism. The teachers and actors along with advice from Commission members will create a curriculum that addresses racism. The RHRC will promote the cuzriculum in the Roseville Area School District and in other school districts outside of Roseville_ Other students, parents artd �-eater Roseville community will benefit from this project. Parents and other students will hear about and see the initial play. This wili open opportunities for discussions about racism. In addition, members ofthe community will be invited to the play that is develo�ed in the fall. Following the production, the RHRC wi11 lead discussions about the messages in the play/vignettes and about issues of racism in the community_ PROGRAM The RHRC will work directly with (na�ne of school) and a local theater to get students to write and perform a pIay that adc�resses issues of racism that students either experienced themselves or have seen in the community. We plan to work with the school throngi�out the year 2003, so that two classrooms of students will create two separate plays, ane in Spring 2003 and one in FaII 2003_ In the Spnng 2Q03 we will work with the teacher(s) and the theater cornpany to develop a curriculum thal can be used in future years. Students will then perform the play for fellow students and parents. In Fa1120Q3 we will again work with the teachers and theater company to refine the curriculu�n and to get a new cIassroom of students to write a new play addressing issues of racism. 5tndents vvili perform this play for feilow students, parents and members of the community. Following the community perfornnance, Human Rights Commission mem�ers will hold roundtable discussions for anyone who wants to discuss issues in more detail. � The RHRC believes that racial opinions and community attitudes are learned and by reaching children and youth we can he�p youngsters to think about racism, to question their attitudes and those of the community and to counter misconceptions that are perpetuaEed through the media or heard in the community. By producing two plays in two classrooms, our own Commission members will leatn more how our youth interpret events and the world around them. We will take the experience from the first production and develap educational topics to discuss with students, parents and community members following the fall production. �,� J�, Hunnan Rights Commission St Paul Foundation Creating an Anti-Racist Couununity Grant Application Page 3 of 5