Artesia high School is one of three high schools in
the ABC Unified School District offering 9th-12th grade
education. The school has over 1,700 students from a
diverse background such as Indian/Alaskan Native, Asian,
African American, Filipino, Latino, Pacific Islander,
Portuguese, and White.
As a zerohour school, Artesia High School will provide
training opportunities for teachers, administrators,
and staff to attend a two-day workshop, "Diversity and
Inclusion at Work for Educators," which will be facilitated
by NCCJ on March 24 and March 26. Participants will
understand the definition and impact of stereotypes,
prejudice, and discrimination, and explore how social
identities determine how we view ourselves and others.
A core group of teachers will attend the "Why Try?"
training on Jan. 25th and 26th at ABC Unified School
District. Instructors attending this training will receive
a character development curriculum that could easily
into the freshman year class "Futures."
A Campus Action Team will start meeting in spring.
Artesia High School Students Complete Intensive
Human Relations Summer Camp
In July, ten Artesia High School students completed
a two-week intensive human relations summer camp as
part of the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relation's
zerohour program in collaboration with the ABC Unified
Safe Schools Health Students grant. The camp was co-facilitated
by Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations
staff, Daniel Cacho and riKu Matsuda.
During the camp, students were introduced to community
and school demographics and human relations concepts
including identity formation, root causes of intergroup
conflicts, institutional and internalized oppression
and alliance building. Through active participation
in group and 1-on-1 activities, students were challenged
to learn about each other's identities, life experiences
and backgrounds. An element of the camp also included
keeping a journal to free write reflections on the camp
or write on specific human relations issues. The camp
experience bonded students who were otherwise complete
strangers on a campus of over 1,800. By the end of the
program, almost all the students openly shared reflections
from their writing with the group. In the creation of
safe space, relationships grew and a sense of community
emerged where each student felt comfortable sharing
personal struggles and challenges....more
During the camp, students were introduced to community
and school demographics and human relations concepts
including identity formation, root causes of intergroup
conflicts, institutional and internalized oppression
and alliance building. Through active participation
in group and 1-on-1 activities, students were challenged
to learn about each other's identities, life experiences
and backgrounds. An element of the camp also included
keeping a journal to free write reflections on the camp
or write on specific human relations issues. The camp
experience bonded students who were otherwise complete
strangers on a campus of over 1,800. By the end of the
program, almost all the students openly shared reflections
from their writing with the group. In the creation of
safe space, relationships grew and a sense of community
emerged where each student felt comfortable sharing
personal struggles and challenges....
