The citizen project is an important part of the experience of Maria college. Project Citizen not only encourages problem solving, but it also teaches students to be attentive to community issues. It also prepares students for their future by involving them in public policy. This is a five-step problem-solving plan that helps students understand how to think critically. The first step is to identify the problem affecting our school. The second is to search for information about the problem in order to know its context. The third step is to evaluate other solutions to find out what works and what doesn't. The fourth step is to develop your own solution using problem solving and teamwork. The fifth and final step is to create an action plan that is realistic and likely to work. The project takes place during a student's seventh year, in the 4th term. This has taken place every year for over 14 years. It has been going on for so long because of how educational and interesting it is. The main objective of the project is to solve problems. Students must identify the problems around them and think of plausible solutions. The Citizen Project is an educational but interesting part of Maria, which is why it's been around for so long. The main concern of the 2014 Citizen Project is school safety. The issue of school safety is present in every school, including Maria Middle School. Maria is a fairly large school. It has 600 students in grades 6-8 and 47 full-time teachers. North Shore School District 112, built more than 60 years ago, is located in the suburb of Highland Park, north of Chicago. The school address is 929 Edgewood Road, Highland Park, IL, 60035. There are many safety concerns in Maria that need to be a... middle of paper ...... schools need to be prepared to face it. situations where he is involved. Edgewood has a system to combat bullying in its school. They have two parts to their system. One of them is security incident reporting. These allow students to report a bullying incident anonymously. They can give them to any teacher or staff member and they will still be read. The other part of the system is how they notify parents of their children's harassment. According to the manual, students who act aggressively (such as bullying) will be notified and given "early intervention." Edgewood isn't the only school to have rules in place to prevent bullying. The Highland Park High School handbook states that students may not bully anyone for any reason on school property, during school hours, or in any way related to school..