Meadow Lake, Swift Current and Fort Qu Appelle students have taken part as well. The groups of students are diverse, coming from different ethnic backgrounds and communities. They range in age from Grades 7 through 10. At the training session, they are divided into groups, or families. They are separated from the other students in their school.
Families work on trust, communication, understanding other cultures and personal interaction.
They learn the negative impact of racism. The workshops employ cross-cultural training. Students learn to communicate, to be non-judgmental, to feel empathy and to tolerate ambiguity. I ve used in almost 30 years of teaching, Fredrickson said. It was a really big thing for me, said Blake, a student at Winston Knoll Collegiate.