Shining Light on a Serious Issue: Bullying
Today, President Obama, the Department of Education, and the Department of Health and Human Services are hosting a Conference on Bullying Prevention. The conference will have student, parent, and teacher attendees, and it will discuss bullying in communities across the country.
Bullying is clearly a major problem in many schools and districts, and LFA members have a sizable collection of helpful materials explaining various issues pertinent to bullying, providing instruction on identifying and dealing with bullying, and considering other issues like bully legislation and bullying implications on school violence.
Below is a sample of some of these materials:
For an overview on bullying:
- National Education Association’s (NEA) Bully Free: It Starts With Me Campaign (with links to articles and tips)
- National Parent Teacher Association's (PTA) Connect for Respect initiative (with links to articles and tips)
- American Association of School Administrators' (AASA) Special Edition on Bullying at School and Online initiative (with links to articles and tips)
- American Federation of Teachers' (AFT) "See a Bully, Stop a Bully" initiative
- National Middle School Association (NMSA) article on bullying in middle schools
- National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) article defining the issue
- National School Boards Association (NSBA) general article on bullying
Materials on adult intervention:
- Articles by the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) and NASSP on the role of principals in preventing bullying
- NMSA on article on using young adult literature to curb bullying
- NSBA publication to help school districts develop models for preventing and responding to bullying
- NEA article on preventing bullying on school buses
Bullying and school violence:
- NASSP report on reducing the risk of violence in schools
- NMSA report on a pilot conflict resolution program to curb bullying and violence
Cyber-bullying:
- NASSP article on the principal's role in cyber-bullying
- International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Point/Counterpoint on whether schools should be held responsible for cyber-bullying
Legislation:
- NASSP articles on the state of anti-bullying legislation in general and internet bullying specifically
Adult bullying:
- NEA article that focuses on teacher bullying
Our hope is the Bullying Conference will highlight many of the significant issues these materials discuss, and will provide more insight for future efforts to mitigate bullying in schools that cover both time-immemorial bullying tactics, as well as newly-developing ones.
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There is a retired teacher in
There is a retired teacher in the Cleveland/University/Shaker Heights, OH, area named Karen Gotwald, who is devoting her second career in retirement to helping schools, teachers, parents, and children deal with bullying. She had developed a successful program that only she, as the creator, is currently delivering, but I have urged her to get busy writing a book on what she knows so that other people can benefit across the country. She promises me she will start that this year. She is phenomenal!
Our district is in the
Our district is in the planning and training phase of implementing the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (http://www.olweus.org/public/index.page). It is a comprehensive program aimed at changing the culture of an entire school community, giving students, staff, parents, and members of the wider local community common language and strategies for identificaton, prevention, and intervention of bullying. This research-based approach will help us reduce the incidents of bullying throughout our community and help to create a more inclusive and tolerant atmosphere for students and adults alike.
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