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Suzy Chase-Motzkin

220 Chase Road


Shokan, NY 12481
845-657-7799
suzychase@verizon.net
www.OurLifeSkills.com

Interactive Middle School Anti-Bullying Project


With the barrage of information students receive daily, creating meaningful
learning requires an investment of their thoughts and time. When the process
is fun, the impact is even greater. This program inspires and supports creativity,
mutual respect, and understanding. The experience draws individuals together
with a shared goal while helping to bring awareness to the schools community.

Goal

Students produce and perform short scenes representing


solutions to bullying situations for a community assembly

Formula

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Dr. Ronne Marantz


Educator/Administrator

After reading Perry Friends, explore provided questions


Find positive behavioral solutions through discussion
Participants ll out questionnaire (sample on OLS
website) to indicate a character type they want to play
Class (30 +/-) develops a loose story outline with scenes
Time
to accommodate 4 to 6 actors (from questionnaire) and
Production time (from one to three
musical narrators, who will tie the scenes together
months) depending upon scene
Scene groups meet, discuss, and record what each
length, rehearsal scheduling, and
character might say or do in each situation
school/group cancellations.
Advisor guides group toward positive outcomes
Support
Rehearsals begin and modications are made to the
Program is easily implemented
script based upon ongoing inspiration and decisions
about how people move about once in action
Suzy will consult virtually or on site
All groups join together for a few full rehearsals, then
Forms and music can be found at:
invite the community to enjoy and learn
www.OurLifeSkills.com

Sometimes a special
person and special
educational program
comes along to enrich
the curriculum and the
lives of students. Suzy
Chase-Motzkin did just
that at Woodstock
Elementary School
during my tenure as
principal. She is one of
those creative educators who understand
how to awaken the
world of possibility and
creativity in children.
Her new project,
developed around her
story, Perrys Friends,
underscores the
importance of character
as the foundation of
achievement and living
a fully human life. I
enthusiastically endorse
and support her.

Materials

Wall/King-Size Sheet/Screen
Overhead Projector
Transparencies
Colored Markers
Or
Cheap Plastic Tablecloths
Packing Tape
Colored Markers
Wire /Rope (scenery curtain)

Suzy Chase-Motzkin, artfully focuses our attention on those behaviors that positively create healthy and
productive living. Suzys Our Life Skills series reminds us that behaviors leading to eective personal leadership
need to be encouraged through activities that spark new habits of mind. The Our Life Skills school programs do
that and more. Suzys background in theater arts allows her to creatively structure interdisciplinary curriculum
connections that encourage students to reect on lifes challenges and create their own solutions. I have had the
privilege of seeing authentic educational productions facilitated by Suzy that are student owned and masterfully
performed. She and her work are invaluable resources as students build their global readiness skills.
Suzy Chase-Motzkin and the Our Life Skills programs have my unqualied support!
Lisa Sambora - Educational Consultant
Retired Director of Curriculum and Instruction, North Rockland CSD

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