The JUST US Project teaches children how to make sure they know what to do when feeling stressed or in times of trouble. This interdisciplinary middle school unit connects the Community Resiliency Model with a sculpture created by Dare Coulter that showcases the resiliency of the Black residents in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Participants will learn the following:

• How to understand and monitor their bodies when enduring stress and how to learn resilience in difficult times.

• Learn about art as a way of expressing one's feelings and telling stories. Students are exposed to historical and contemporary art and artists.

• Learn about cultural and historical events highlighted of Dare Coulter's sculpture entitled "Because It's Time."

• Create their own art piece showcasing participants' own resilience and express what resilience means to them personally.

• Tell their own story of resilience through explaining their art piece.

Each lesson is paired with the accompanying North Carolina State Standards for Middle Grades in Social Emotional Learning, Art, Social Studies and Language Arts.

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NOTE for Teachers and Leaders in Pilot Project:

Requirements: Please have your participants complete the following- Resilience Lesson Session 1, Art Activity, Art Talk, and Focus Group. The History Resources, Movement Lessons, and CAM tours are optional. The site for the students that only have student materials since some of the optional materials here may not be appropriate for children. https://sites.google.com/view/becauseitstimepilotstudent/home

Tentative schedule:

By February 26: We will deliver printed Release Forms, and Resilience Lesson 1 worksheets. Art Supplies will be delivered on March 1.

Week 1. Get release forms signed and have students under the student mirror site,https://sites.google.com/view/becauseitstimepilotstudent/home complete Resilience Lesson 1, complete worksheets and have students turn them in to you. Participants can do it from home. Students can continue with Resilience Lessons 2-4 if you have time. (For Schala and Dakota collect found objects)

Week 2. Go over Dare Coulter's sculpture information under Art Lessons, video, and photos. Introduce Art Project. Design Atlas and Word. Take Videos and photos. All sites except GLOW should make arrangements for UNCW media with Jesse Bradley at bradleyj@uncw.edu. Optional: If time, arrange interview with Dare or Virtual CAM Art Museum Tour.

Week 3. Finish Art Projects and label them with student information (full name, name of piece, teacher, school or program). We will make the museum labels from information you will put in a spreadsheet (see below under March 30) but we will need all information taped to the back of student work. Take videos and photos. Optional: If time, arrange interview with Dare or Virtual CAM Art Museum Tour.

Week 4. Record Student Art Talks found under Language arts Lesson. Put recordings on a flash drive or cloud storage. We also will need all of your photos and videos submitted.

Brigade will have Restorative Justice Circles with Dr. Kim Cook on March 24.

March 30 in the morning: We will pick up art work that you have packaged in boxes safely for transport. Each art piece must be labeled clearly with student full first and last name on the back of the piece. At this time we need your flash drive or link to storage of videos and photos and list of student information for the CAM placards https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hSU3rzcsQmplNUkaKHMX2srOO_oxdr8H/view?usp=sharing . We will hang the display March 31.

April 1-17: Dates for Art Show at CAM. Your student's families and you will get free passes. We can only have 25 in the room at one time. One person is an administrator of the program, one is you, and one is photographer. So that leaves 22, one for each student and one guest. Each adult will get a free pass to see the whole CAM since it is free for all children.

April 1: 6-7pm Brigade 22 people

April 1: 7:30-8:30pm GLOW 22 people

April 8: 6-7pm Trask 22 people

April 8: 7-8pm Trask 22 people

April 8: 8-9 pm DREAMS 22 people

April 15: 6-7 pm DC Virgo 22 people

April 15: 7:30-8:30 pm Myrtle Grove 22 people

AFTER CAM VISIT: Please have students and teachers fill out surveys.

Student Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Vv6Dh5mqIaaIPnmdqHy4Q8pSfPKoZNtT7OiqP5j9fhI/edit?usp=sharing

Teacher Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1XSa-dwBssyWa-jQq-jZIlFulOkl6wtAf7CN9drK2y9g/edit?usp=sharing

Students meet with Janna on Zoom for Focus groups about the pilot project.

After April 18: We will return the art to the students