(i.e., giving
PXP more legitimacy in the larger community and schools)
·Establish
a link with the PTA and parents
-
PTA fundraisers
·Make
a fact sheet/letter of PR material
·Write
a formal proposal
·Does
the board of ed in the city have any special violence prevention program
or student mentoring program?
·Contact
existing community service organizations, and try to get into their schools/work
with them
-As
applied to PXP at Yale: maybe talk to Patricia Jenkins, the woman who got
us our festival speaker who does HS prep type stuff with middle school
students?
·Run
special one-day workshops with certain teachers, to demonstrate what we
do
·Put
ads in the local paper
·Write
thank-you letters to all the teachers/principles (we could definitely do
this!!!)
·Continuous
contact: keep stopping into the principal’s office and saying hi, so they
know who we are!
·Display
kids’ work at the school to show there are concrete RESULTS/PRODUCTS of
PXP: Peace murals?Journals?Letters
to mayor?Drawings?
·Sit
in on school staff meetings
·Get
to know the school secretaries who will always put your message through
·Maybe
we could assign a steering committee member at Yale with a special teacher/school
relations position??