PHS Diversity Council Team
On Thursday, September 26, 2019 the PHS Diversity Council Team largely made up of seniors and juniors with a few sophomores participated in a training session with a small group of teachers in response to racially insensitive social media posts from last school year. These elite students’ leaders will be conducting workshops for our school community to promote better understanding among ALL groups at PHS. They spent 4 hours being trained by Linda Ortiz, a Conciliation Specialist from the US Dept of Justice. I must say these students represented the best in what Piscataway High School student leadership is all about.
The United States Department of Justice: Community Relations Service (CRS) division is the only federal agency dedicated to working with community groups to resolve community conflicts and prevent and respond to alleged hate crimes arising from differences of race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, or disability. CRS provides facilitation, mediation, training, and consultation services that improve communities’ abilities to problem solve and build capacity to prevent and respond to conflict, tension, and hate crimes based on race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, and disability
Ms. Ortiz was also able to visit the Race and Gender in Literature course to share her expertise with the class on the topics of conflict resolution, having difficult conversations and building strong communities through communication.
