Bullying & Conflict Resolution | Free Spirit Publishing. Home | StopBullying.gov. Students In The Know. Mission Statement The Bullying Adademy-Students in the Know Foundation is a non-profit foundation created to educate students about current issues in an effort to improve the future quality of our community at large. Executive Director Tommy Walser is the Executive Director of the Students in the Know Foundation as well as program founder of the Bullying Academy. He is originally from the south Florida area, attaining a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Miami School of Business in 2010. He is currently attending New York University School of Law and is scheduled to graduate in 2013. In leading the Bullying Adademy team, Tommy utilizes his experience in non-profit management from his position as Program Director/Executive Assistant for the Environmental Coalition of Miami Beach (ECOMB, Inc.).
Visit walserlaw.com Expertise & References: Meline Kevorkian, Ed.D To learn more please visit: www.preventingbullying.com Dr. Dr. Dr. Meridith Gould, Ph.D. Top 5 Ways Educators Can Stop Bullies. A new documentary film, “BULLY,” follows several students to show how bullying happens in schools—and how educators often struggle to put a stop to it. A safe and supportive school climate can be one of the best tools in preventing bullying. Whether it’s the classroom, the cafeteria, the library, the restrooms, on the bus, or on the playground, children need to feel safe—or they can’t focus on learning. Working together, everyone at school can help create a climate where bullying is not acceptable. Below are five tips to help teachers, administrators and other school personnel prevent bullying from occurring in school, as well as how to respond when it happens. 1.
Establish a culture of inclusion and respect that welcomes all students Monitor bullying “hot spots” in and around the building. 2. Develop rules with students so they set their own climate of respect and responsibility, and reinforce the rules by making expectations clear and keeping requests simple, direct and specific. 3. How to Spot and Stop Bullying. Forget New York. If you can make it in middle school, you can make it anywhere. Think about it: You're barely pubescent when you leave grade school's bright, happy walls, where your name is probably emblazoned on some artwork, for a place with kids who, although they are probably just as scared as you, are bigger. Until recently, mistreatment in middle school – even the risk of it – was considered a rite of passage.
You were merely lucky or unlucky, liked or disliked. You just hoped to survive. Thankfully, there's been a rethinking of that philosophy. [See: 6 Dangerous Games Your Kids Should Avoid.] Anti-bullying campaigns kicked into high gear in recent years amid high-profile cases such as Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover of Massachusetts and Ty Field-Smalley of Utah, 11-year-olds who committed suicide after enduring relentless bullying by their peers. So, how have these efforts fared? [Read: How to Cope When School Anxiety Lingers.]