![]() These are the moments that matter when it comes to connecting and bonding students together, improving morale, fostering cooperation and teamwork, inspiring positive thinking, and promoting school spirit. These are the moments we want to create at our school. I mean, just look at the students involved in the videos below! They are having a blast, and it is something they will remember for the rest of their lives. The best part about flash mobs and lip-dubs at your school is witnessing the pure JOY in the faces of students who participate. Heck, many times the news channels want to know about it so they can have cameras at the ready – and it will bring some positive attention to your school and community to counter the negative stories that typically make headlines. So, it makes perfect sense to marshal the interests, aptitudes, and creativity of students at your school to share an uplifting message that can then be used as a springboard for conversation and intentional efforts to accomplish certain major goals: more kindness and less bullying, more acceptance and less prejudice, more inclusion and less exclusion. ![]() And many students (including myself!) absolutely LOVE music of all kinds – so many songs become the soundtrack of our lives as we grow up – and are highly skilled at video recording and editing. Many students (including myself!) have grown up in dance – whether it’s hip-hop, jazz, ballet, tap, or a similar style – and have be inspired to create flash mobs or performed at their school or other locations. A lip-dub is a music video where a group of individuals are recorded lip-syncing a song, after which the original audio of the song is dubbed over the video in post-editing. Unfortunately, we don’t do this often enough, even though student voice is such a powerful thing and can make way more of an impact than the efforts of well-meaning adults.Ī flash mob is a large group of people who suddenly break into synchronized song or choreographed dance - sometimes both – in a public place for the purposes of entertainment, artistic expression, or to bring attention to a cause. Many of our students have talents and abilities which we should really tap in order to help us promote positive attitudes and behaviors across our campus. I was talking with an educator last week about enlisting students to help create a healthy, thriving, and fun school climate, and specifically brought up the idea of flash mobs and lip-dubs. Lets be the generation to stop this and to work to a social media campaign of random act of kindness.Prevention school school climate students teens youtube Sara Beth Bareilles (/ b r l s /, b-RELL-iss born December 7, 1979) is an American singer, songwriter, actress and author. The promotion of random acts of kindness is a very unique challenge to take on in social media as there is so much information being pushed through on social media. The power of people to share information to the world without a filter is dangerous. But it lacks a safe environment for people to express kindness as hate can easily over shadow all the good that is happening. ![]() We were listening to the song Brave (by Sara Bareilles) on the radio. This platform fosters so much development for people to connect, for business, events, and more. Shoppers at the Cataraqui Centre were treated to a very special flash mob in. The one frontier that needs to be addressed is social media for kindness. They highlight so many areas of positive messages, kindness and motivation that really can empower individuals. #Sara bareilles brave flashmob tvAnother example of these campaigns are the commercials on TV that highlight the idea to Pass it On. Many take the forms of pay it forward, such as Starbucks which allowed its customers to pay for the person behind them in line. There has been many campaigns that have worked on the idea of random acts of kindness. ![]()
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