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Game-changing insights on bullying from a top US researcher

June 20, 2017 By Anne 1 Comment

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If we want schools to be safe for all kids, we cannot ignore the direct connections between bullying, sexual harassment and homophobic name-calling in middle school. That's according to groundbreaking research presented by University of Florida psychology professor Dorothy Espelage in her latest talk. One of the U.S.'s leading bullying researchers, she was speaking in Washington at the American … [Read more...] about Game-changing insights on bullying from a top US researcher

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, Research, Risk & Safety, Youth Tagged With: American Psychological Association, APA, bullying, cyberbullying, Dorothy Espelage, GLSEN, research, school climate, SEL, social-emotional learning

How to choose (or make!) an anti-bullying video that helps

January 17, 2017 By Anne 7 Comments

Recently a graduate student was given the assignment to find videos on YouTube that are "helpful to kids in confronting bullying." The criteria given the student were: Make sure the video… 1. presents accurate information about both the problem and what bullying is (sometimes behavior's just rude or mean, not bullying) 2. is made by kids for kids 3. shows kids standing up for … [Read more...] about How to choose (or make!) an anti-bullying video that helps

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, Risk & Safety, video Tagged With: Cartoon Network, educators, McGruff the Crime Dog, media literacy, Russell Sabella, teachers, YouTube

IBPA 2016: Focus on the positive

November 10, 2016 By Anne 2 Comments

It's fitting that the last day of a bullying prevention conference focusing on empathy, kindness and resilience happened to be Election Day 2016. Whether or not they were thinking about it, some 750 educators, students, researchers and practitioners together capped off possibly the most divisive, indecent, relationally challenged presidential election season in our history by modeling and … [Read more...] about IBPA 2016: Focus on the positive

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, Research, Youth Tagged With: CCRC, Crimes Against Children Research Center, Heather Turner, IBPA, International Bullying Prevention Association, Kimberly Mitchell, Lisa Jones, Michele Borba, Sameer Hinduja

Major update on bullying, cyberbullying in the U.S.: Study

May 25, 2016 By Anne 2 Comments

Bullying. Why haven't we solved this social problem yet? Because, according to an important update from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine, bullying is one very complex problem. "Composition of peer groups, shifting demographics, changing societal norms, and modern technology are factors that must be considered to understand and effectively react to bullying in the … [Read more...] about Major update on bullying, cyberbullying in the U.S.: Study

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, Research, Risk & Safety, School & Tech Tagged With: CCRC, National Academies

True school safety: A ‘compassion network’ in & around schools in Morgan County, W.V.

February 18, 2016 By Anne Leave a Comment

It's Kindness Week, and there's no greater kindness – for and from people of all ages – than what's being demonstrated in Morgan County, W.V., where great need is being met with great cooperation. County residents have created a web of youth-focused programs supporting kids in and out of school. I've been hearing about the growth of this amazing web of care since I met Gary McDaniel, a clinical … [Read more...] about True school safety: A ‘compassion network’ in & around schools in Morgan County, W.V.

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, empathy, Risk & Safety, School & Tech, school policy, Youth Tagged With: Gary McDaniel, school safety, school social workers

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Our (DIGITAL) PARENTING BASICS: Safety + Social
NAMLE, the National Association for Media Literacy Education
CASEL.org & the 5 core social-emotional competencies of SEL
Center for Democracy & Technology
Center for Innovative Public Health Research
Childnet International
Committee for Children
Congressional Internet Caucus Academy
ConnectSafely.org
Control Shift: a pivotal book for Internet safety
Crimes Against Children Research Center
Crisis Textline
Cyber Civil Rights Initiative's Revenge Porn Crisis Line
Cyberwise.org
danah boyd's blog and book about networked youth
Disconnected, Carrie James's book on digital ethics
FOSI.org's Good Digital Parenting
The research of Global Kids Online
The Good Project at Harvard's School of Education
If you watch nothing else: "Parenting in a Digital Age" TED Talk by Prof. Sonia Livingstone
The International Bullying Prevention Association
Let Grow Foundation
Making Caring Common
Raising Digital Natives, author Devorah Heitner's site
Renee Hobbs at the Media Education Lab
MediaSmarts.ca
The New Media Literacies
Report of the Aspen Task Force on Learning & the Internet and our guide to Creating Trusted Learning Environments
The Ruler Approach to social-emotional learning (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence)
Sources of Strength
"Young & Online: Perspectives on life in a digital age" from young people in 26 countries (via UNICEF)
"Youth Safety on a Living Internet": 2010 report of the Online Safety & Technology Working Group (and my post about it)

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