Volunteers Needed for Understanding Our Differences!
Please join us to help present the Understanding Our Differences program. We need your help in the classroom
three times in third grade:
- Monday November 19, 2018 (11am-1pm) -- Physical Disabilities Unit
- Monday March 11, 2019 (11am-1pm) -- Blindness/Low Vision Unit
- Monday April 8, 2019 (11am-1pm) -- Deafness/Hard of Hearing Unit
Understanding Our Differences is a nonprofit organization
working in partnership with the Newton Public Schools to provide a unique and
creative disability awareness program for elementary school children in grades
3-5. Presented by volunteers, the
program promotes inclusion, understanding and acceptance of people with
disabilities and individual differences at our schools and in our community.
Each
Understanding Our Differences Unit includes
·
an informational PowerPoint
presentation and video
·
group discussions
·
hands-on activities
·
a guest speaker with disabilities and
an opportunity to hear, and ask questions about, their experiences
Top
5 Reasons to Volunteer with Understanding Our Differences
1.
Share
time in the classroom with your child and other students.
2.
Get
to know other parents and volunteers.
3.
Be
a role model for inclusiveness.
4.
Learn
to see the person not the disability.
5. Feel confident knowing we provide you
with training and curriculum by Understanding our Differences. You can choose from online or in person
training.
Interested in helping
out?
or Contact a
third-grade co-coordinator:
Michael Grubb (mgrubb@gmail.com,
650-378-7893)
Renee Krikorian (repk1013@gmail.com)
Want to know more?