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School-Wide Celebration & Lesson Plan 
Under the direction of educator Billie Jo-Grant, the Notre Dame School in Canada collaborated to take part in a MY HERO school-wide, two week program that included a Kick-Off, Celebration Parent Evening, and Finale. Students completed original art and essays about their heroes, created garden stepping-stones, pop-art, dioramas, murals, stained glass, collages and solar-powered cars! Guest speakers were invited, music was recorded, dances were performed and fundraising for various charities took place. Check out the School Wide Lesson Plan and host your own celebration today. There are templates and checklists in the How to Host a Hero Fest booklet as well.
September 11th Hero Inspires Students to Action 
Jeremy Glick, the hero aboard one of the planes on September 11th, was honored with a webpage by his daughter Emmy. Her class, as part of a MY HERO Call to Action Learning Circle, raised money for Tsunami Relief in Japan and produced a short film inspiring others to change the world, as he did.
MY HERO Outreach Educators Mali Bickley and Jim Carleton gave several presentations on MY HERO Learning Circles--the relationships developed through collaborative projects and the creativity fostered by digital media--at the International Society for Technology in Education Conference in Philadelphia, the International Education and Resource Network Conference in Taiwan, and the South Taiwan International Education Conference. 
While filming her documentary An Inconvenient Youth in Nepal, Student Reporter Slater Jewell-Kemker introduced The MY HERO Project to school children in Kathmandu, as well as to the cultural attaché at the U. S. Embassy. Read about MY HERO's work abroad. Summer Workshops and Presentations Media arts educators Wendy Milette and Slater Jewell Kemker presented a Youth Master Class on Filmmaking in the 21st-Century Classroom and an overview on MY HERO's online media arts educational resources at the American Film Institute's Silver Docs Film Festival. Mohammed Sidibay served on the Youth Panel, sharing his experiences growing up as a child soldier in Sierra Leone and how he has used inspirational media to empower others to make a difference. MY HERO also presented a video workshop at the World Children's  Festival on the National Mall in Washington D.C., where youngsters from around the world played the globe-toss game and learned interview techniques. |
