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Delete Day – Girls at The Mary Louis Academy Take Action
This is a fresh and brilliant idea: “Delete Day.” After a conference by Alison Trachtman Hill (Critical Issues for Girls) and her challenge to “take action,” students from Mary Louis Academy wasted no time and created Delete Day. Delete Day means students are invited to a designated room during an unscheduled period, and are aided [...]
Continue reading...Trend Micro “What’s Your Story” Winner “Where are you?” is really worth a look
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
“This is a line … and this line is mine!” starts the Grand Prize Winning video among many many entries for digital online safety. Winning teen creator Mark Eschelman and teen actor Tyler Joseph give us a powerful message of where the line is, where the spine is, and the pluses and minuses of being “on-line” or on [...]
Continue reading...New Resource on Suicide and Bullying from SPRC
Thursday, April 21, 2011
The Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) has published a new 8-page Issue Brief on Suicide and Bullying. As the SPRC website notes, this publication examines
Continue reading...The Pitfalls and Promises of Facebook, Social Media and Kids: Helpful info from Mindshift.kqed.org
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
We understand and appreciate that many adults worry about young people’s use of Facebook and other social media, and may be at a loss to know what, if anything, they need to do in this regard. Should adults intervene? If so, how and to what degree?
Continue reading...Sexting: A Typology – A “Must Read” for law enforcement, school officials, parents and others
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
If you are one of the many among us trying to understand the “complicated phenomenon” of sexting, then you would do well to read this latest 11-page bulletin by two of the top researchers in this field – Janis Wolak and David Finkelhor of the Crimes Against Children Research Center (University of New Hampshire).
Continue reading...The power of positive social norms: Harrison High School shows us the way!
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Check out this video, produced by students from Harrison High School in Georgia, which beautifully illustrates the power of positive social norms. As the Sources of Strength website notes, the school broadcasting program partnered with the school’s Sources of Strength students to “create a Lip Dub that had a message for all teens.” This engaging and powerful [...]
Continue reading...White House & HHS Launch Stopbullying.gov
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
In conjunction with the recent White House summit on bullying, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services launched an excellent resource site called www.stopbullying.gov . The site is very well organized and navigable, with an attractive color scheme and quick link buttons for kids, teens, young adults, parents, educators and community members — following on the President’s [...]
Continue reading...Evidence-based alternatives to zero tolerance discipline policies
Friday, March 25, 2011
We often hear the words “zero tolerance” in discussions about school discipline policies, perhaps especially nowadays in connection with bullying and cyberbullying. Before you make decisions about whether or not zero tolerance is the right approach for your school, however, we suggest that you check out this March 2011 informative Research-to-Results Brief from Child Trends which [...]
Continue reading...Teens can talk to a judge without being in court, at “AsktheJudge.info”
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Judge Tom Jacobs was a “Juvy” (Juvenile) judge for 23 years and seems to have seen …
Continue reading...White House Conference on Bullying Prevention – March 10, 2011
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Today (Thursday, March 10, 2011), the President convened a conference on bullying prevention at which some of nation’s leading experts and practitioners on bullying prevention spoke (Justin W. Patchin, Ph.D., Susan M. Swearer, Ph.D., Rosalind Wiseman, Catherine Bradshaw, Ph.D, and others). The conference is available for review for a limited time at http://www.whitehouse.gov/live, and/or check out the [...]
Continue reading...Acceptable Use Policies: Balancing Access and Choice
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
If you are wanting to update your school’s Acceptable (Responsible) Use Policy, perhaps with a view to integrating new cloud-based and mobile technologies, then we suggest that you first read A “Responsible” Approach to School Usage Policies on Internet Safety
Continue reading...Want a 30 second clip about digital harassment to catch the attention of your students?
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Then check out this short but powerful clip entitled Tattoo from A Thin Line (see our earlier blogs on this website by clicking here and here). We think this is a great short piece to show to students to begin discussions about cyberbullying/digital harassment. Perhaps one of the first questions might be to ask them, ”In your opinion, [...]
Continue reading...Looking for useful resources on cyberbullying: Try Education.com
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Education.com, a website which “provides expert advice, features, columns, thousands of reference articles, and a community for parents of pre-school to high-school students,” has a very useful Special Edition section on cyberbullying (and also one on bullying). Why do we recommend this site?
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- Experts on Cyberbullying: Shaheen Shariff, Ph.D.
- Useful Advice about How Effective Parents Communicate with a School about Bullying
- Internet Safety: Professor Garfield (the cartoon cat!) helps out
- Coming Soon: Interviews with Experts and Who's Who Profiles
- The Formspringme.com Controversy: swimming pools, faulty gas tanks and cigarettes
- Shaheen Shariff: Thank you for this insightful review. I appreciate...
- Judge Tom: After 23 years in juvenile court, I believe that t...
Monday, May 16, 2011
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