Solution

= Solution = [|Oneco's Gifted Website] For their solution the girls decided to write [|The Stop Girl Bullying Pledge] for girls on Oneco's Campus to take and sign. They are also working on creating buttons or stickers for each girl to wear after she has taken the pledge to further promote their cause. Then the girls decided to take that pledge and turn it into a [|Public Service Announcement] and invitation for more girls to take the pledge too. We have plans to burn this and send it to EDTv, which is District of Manatee Schools Education Channel.

I told them that we needed a way to measure if their pledge was make a difference. So after a long discussion the girls came up with a [|brief two question survey] for each teacher to take before the pledge is presented and again two weeks after. We had a fourth grade and a fifth grade all girls class take surveys earlier in our project so we decided to test our pledge out with them first. This process has just begun, and we will post our finding when we have them completed.

On a side note, these girls were invited to present their project to a 3rd grade class at Braden River Elementary (another school in the District) via video conference. So on December 10th we meet with Connie Dixon's 3rd graders via Connect Ed Pro and spent about 30 minutes chatting about this project and ePortfolio. A good time was had by all! Thanks to Dawn Howard an Instructional Technologist a recording was made of this chat and we thought we would share that link here [|Connect Ed Pro/December 10th]. We would like to apologize in advance for the poor picture quality. Due to other activities on campus our network was running a bit slow. Deepest thanks to Dawn Howard, Becky Phillips, Connie Dixon and her class for making this a possibility.

On Thursday, April 29th the girls were interviewed by Christina Bradford, kindergarten teacher and college student via Connect Ed Pro about their project and the problem of Girl Bullying.

On May 10th the girls presented their project to The Manatee County School Board. Special thanks to Margi Nanney, Supervisor of Communications & Public Information for the School District of Manatee County, for the photos of us at the School Board Meeting, May 10th.

If you would like to contact us please email our teacher at snyderf@fc.manatee.k12.fl.us.