Student Group on Race Relations
The Student Group on Race Relations (SGORR) is an organization of diverse high school students in the Shaker Heights schools that promotes positive social relations across all boundaries of difference. SGORR students are trained to facilitate discussions of diversity with Shaker’s fourth and sixth grade students, and they teach intervention activities that lead to investigations of stereotyping, discrimination, social polarization, and bullying. In addition to visiting elementary school classrooms, SGORR students also implement diversity workshops by request with adult and groups in the greater Cleveland community.
Over the course of three classroom visits, SGORR students teach interactive, hands-on activities and lead discussions with elementary students on the following themes:
• Trust, risk, and support
• Communication
• Peer pressure
• Self-image
• Perception
• Making healthy choices
• Stereotyping and polarization
• Group problem-solving
• Bullying
• Becoming an upstander