Alberton School
Miss Montana visits Alberton students, spreads anti-bullying message
Elementary students at Alberton School met with Montana royalty when Danielle Wineman visited Wednesday.
Wineman, who was crowned Miss Montana 2015 in June, was at the school as part of a statewide tour to promote her anti-bullying message, which she calls “Act on Compassion.”
After talking to students in kindergarten through sixth grade about having grown up in Cut Bank, Wineman’s anti-bullying presentation focused on considering how words can negatively affect other people.
Using her background as an actress as the theme, she said each of the students “is the star in your own story.”
“But you still have roles to play in other people’s stories,” the 23-year-old Miss Montana said. “There is a deciding factor of whether you play the friend in someone’s story or the villain.”
Wineman chose a pair of students from the audience to play “villains” in the presentation, instructing them to crumple up pieces of paper that represented two other students’ self-esteem and confidence. She compared it to treating someone negatively.
“Eventually ... you start believing you aren't the star of your own story,” she said.
Those kids then had to try to flatten their sheets of paper to make them look as new as possible.
“It takes a lot longer to get that confidence back than it took to destroy it,” Wineman said.
She concluded her appearance by playing a song on the piano, the same skill she used during the state pageant in Glendive over the summer.
Kyle Fisher, principal at Alberton, said Wineman reached out to the school because she was in the area for the Thanksgiving holiday and wanted to know if there was a time she could talk with the students.
“Things like this are so important, we wanted to make the time. She has a great message for the kids,” Fisher said.
Earlier in the day, Wineman gave a similar talk with students in the seventh through 12th grades at Alberton. She said the general message was the same, but focused more on building strong relationships with each other.
Wineman also made an appearance at Florence-Carlton School in the Bitterroot Valley on Wednesday.
“In an average week, I usually visit 10 to 12 schools for these presentations,” she said.
By the end of the week, Wineman's statewide tour will have taken her to 95 schools to speak in front of more than 18,500 students.
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