Creative Brief

1. What is this project? What form will it take? What is the task at hand?

• we are becoming class experts on the issue of students anxiety about their social status as perceived by peers.
• Peer acceptance: the degree to which a child or adolescent is socially accepted by peers.
• Includes the level of peer popularity and
• the ease with which a child or adolescent can initiate and maintain satisfactory peer relationships.
• (http://www.healthofchildren.com/P/Peer-Acceptance.html)
• It will take the form of an interactive, creative presentation. 
• the task is to create a creative presentation to educate our peers on this topic.  

2. Why are we doing it? What is the problem or opportunity?

• we are doing this to help educate our peers about the issue of students experiencing anxiety in school about their social status as perceived by peers.

The 3 main topics we are going to talk about are: 

• Social media- Worrying about number of followers
• Cliques- Fear of not finding a group of friends to fit in with, being set aside and an outcast
• Personal acceptance- If a student doesn’t think they’re good enough they don't think that anyone else will accept them either. Personal acceptance leads to social peer acceptance
• Every child feels like they don’t fit in at some point. Even adults feel that way occasionally: we all experience being “alone in a room full of people.”
• With kids, the need to be part of a group is instinctual; it’s survival. They want to fit in and be like everyone else because it gives them a sense of safety and security.
• So when a child tells you they don’t fit in, they’re also saying, “I don’t feel safe.” The anxiety comes from thoughts of, “I’m different; I’m vulnerable.” And sadly, other children tend to focus on kids who are different and can be very cruel.
• (https://www.empoweringparents.com/article/when-your-child-says-i-dont-fit-in/)

3. Who is it really for? And why should they care?

• for anyone who cares about students in middle school students and the struggles that they face. 
• They should care because it is our responsibility to help middle school students through these difficult times. 
• They should also care because not enough people do care about the severity of the issue. 
• Anxiety can lead to a number of problems down the line when left unaddressed from the get-go. 

4. Where and how will it be used? When?

• This project will be used during class and it will help our peers comprehend our topic. 

5. Who will become engaged with it directly and indirectly?

• our peers will be directly engaged with it and indirectly, other people can find our research and apply it to their everyday thinking and instructional techniques. 

6. How will it be remembered and retold?

• we hope that it will impact our peers enough that they feel empowered to educate others outside of our classroom on this topic. 

7. What needs to be done? By whom? By when?

• from this point on, as a pair, we will work together to create a creative brief, critically analyze mentor texts, create a scope of a work plan, and finally dream it, do it!