School wide Bookmark Project

Kindergarten through 4th grade students are continuing with our Social Justice/Arts Integration work with a "Call for Action Bookmark Project". (SJ elements 5 and 6: Awareness Raising and Social Action)

We pledge to donate a copy of “The Skin you Live In” to all Elementary Schools in Marin County.

Bacich students are designing bookmarks. Students may choose to paint their bookmarks with their skin tones, decorate with patterns and designs inspired by illustrator David Lee Csicsko, or they may draw a cartoon version of their faces with a description of their skin like those written by author Michael Tyler: “I have milky chocolate pudding skin. How about you?” Bookmarks will be tucked into the donated books along with a copy of the “Skin” unit the Bacich Social Justice team has developed. Books will be delivered in “Inclusive Language” totes.

Kindergarten and 4th grade students kicked off our school wide bookmark project. Below please see a selection of fantastic bookmarks designed by student artists.

The Great Kindness Challenge Week: January 25–29, 2021

The GKC, presented by Kids for Peace, is a global, proactive bullying-prevention initiative that educators and students can use to create a culture of kindness. Using a customizable kindness checklist, every student has an opportunity to practice kindness and make a positive impact.

The theme for this year’s GKC is Kindness Unites. Now, more than ever, our communities need to experience the healing and unifying power of kindness. I encourage you to embrace the GKC as a powerful tool to celebrate diversity and champion our common humanity. It is through the cumulative effects of sometimes small acts of kindness that we can begin to counter bias, bullying, and racism.

We can spread kindness and unite through art, through words and through actions. I put together a slide deck of artistic choices and activities. Students and staff were asked to choose 10 acts of kindness they would like to do and log their acts of kindness on a personal chart and share them on a schoolwide digital pinboard called padlet.