Community Partnership School is No Place for Hate

This morning, Community Partnership School celebrated an exciting achievement: being designated by civil rights agency, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), as an official No Place for Hate School!

To earn this special honor, CPS organized several school-wide projects to promote respect for difference, including a Multicultural Winter Holiday unit, Asian Culture Appreciation Week, and an anti-bullying poster museum.

Ms. Michaela Pommels, Assistant Project Director of the No Place for Hate program, visited CPS today during Community Meeting to congratulate the students on all the great work they have done to become a No Place for Hate school. She also presented CPS with a special No Place for Hate banner!

Michaela Pommels (left), Assistant Director of No Place for Hate, poses with CPS students and CPS Development Assistant Angie McCole as they proudly display their exciting new banner!

At Community Meeting, students shared lots of examples of No Place for Hate behavior, including being kind to others (even if they are different or like different things than you), and helping and standing up for others.

Already, CPS staff and teachers have been meeting to plan additional projects with an anti-bias or anti-bullying focus, so that CPS can be designated as No Place for Hate again!