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Books and Articles
Below are books and articles that families can use to facilitate important conversations around bullying issues and to continue to develop their own skillset to build inclusive classrooms and promote a safe environment for all students.
Below are books and articles that families can use to facilitate important conversations around bullying issues and to continue to develop their own skillset to build inclusive classrooms and promote a safe environment for all students.
Description: A highly-researched guide on responding to bullying, social conflict, and peer victimization. Weaving in beautiful prose and real stories with actionable advice and expert resources, Bullied is a must-read for parents, teachers and kids.
Description: A highly-researched guide on responding to bullying, social conflict, and peer victimization. Weaving in beautiful prose and real stories with actionable advice and expert resources, Bullied is a must-read for parents, teachers and kids.
Description: An international bestseller, Barbara Coloroso’s groundbreaking and trusted guide on bullying—including cyberbullying—arms parents and teachers with real solutions for a problem that affects almost all school age kids.
Description: An international bestseller, Barbara Coloroso’s groundbreaking and trusted guide on bullying—including cyberbullying—arms parents and teachers with real solutions for a problem that affects almost all school age kids.
“An extremely helpful book that both parents and teachers can use to deal with bullying.”—Publishers Weekly
“An extremely helpful book that both parents and teachers can use to deal with bullying.”—Publishers Weekly
First published over a decade ago, The Bully, the Bullied and the Bystander quickly became the definitive guide to bullying prevention and intervention, providing real solutions for a problem that affects young people all over the world. Now, in this thoroughly updated and expanded book, Coloroso helps you recognize the characteristic triad of bullying: the bully who perpetrates the harm; the bullied, who is the target (and who may become a bully); and the not-so-innocent bystanders—peers or siblings who either watch, participate in the bullying or look away, and adults who see bullying as “teasing,” not tormenting, and as “boys will be boys” or as “ girl drama,” not the predatory aggression that it is. In this book you will learn:
First published over a decade ago, The Bully, the Bullied and the Bystander quickly became the definitive guide to bullying prevention and intervention, providing real solutions for a problem that affects young people all over the world. Now, in this thoroughly updated and expanded book, Coloroso helps you recognize the characteristic triad of bullying: the bully who perpetrates the harm; the bullied, who is the target (and who may become a bully); and the not-so-innocent bystanders—peers or siblings who either watch, participate in the bullying or look away, and adults who see bullying as “teasing,” not tormenting, and as “boys will be boys” or as “ girl drama,” not the predatory aggression that it is. In this book you will learn:
- What bullying is and what it isn’t
- The four ways and three means of bullying
- Technology resources and solutions to deal effectively with both online and offline bullying
- Seven steps to hold accountable and reform someone who bullies
- Four abilities that protect young people from succumbing to a bully
- How young people can stand up, speak out, and take responsibility
Drawing on her decades of work with troubled youth and her wide experience with conflict resolution and restorative justice, Barbara Coloroso offers practical and compassionate solutions and gives parents, caregivers, educators and—most of all—young people the tools to break this cycle of violence.
Drawing on her decades of work with troubled youth and her wide experience with conflict resolution and restorative justice, Barbara Coloroso offers practical and compassionate solutions and gives parents, caregivers, educators and—most of all—young people the tools to break this cycle of violence.
Description: A smart, urgently needed book that helps parents and their kids navigate today’s online landscape—from the founder and CEO of the nation’s leading authority on kids and the media.
Description: A smart, urgently needed book that helps parents and their kids navigate today’s online landscape—from the founder and CEO of the nation’s leading authority on kids and the media.
Now, more than ever, parents need help in navigating their kids’ online, media-saturated lives. Jim Steyer, founder and CEO of Common Sense Media, the nation’s leading kidsand- media organization, and the father of four children, knows that many parents and teachers—unlike their technology-savvy kids—may be tourists in the online world.
Now, more than ever, parents need help in navigating their kids’ online, media-saturated lives. Jim Steyer, founder and CEO of Common Sense Media, the nation’s leading kidsand- media organization, and the father of four children, knows that many parents and teachers—unlike their technology-savvy kids—may be tourists in the online world.
In this essential book, Steyer—a frequent commentator on national TV and radio— offers an engaging blend of straightforward advice and anecdotes that address what he calls RAP, the major pitfalls relating to kids’ use of media and technology: relationship issues, attention/addiction problems, and the lack of privacy. Instead of shielding children completely from online images and messages, Steyer’s practical approach gives parents essential tools to help filter content, preserve good relationships with their children, and make common sense, value-driven judgments for kids of all ages.
In this essential book, Steyer—a frequent commentator on national TV and radio— offers an engaging blend of straightforward advice and anecdotes that address what he calls RAP, the major pitfalls relating to kids’ use of media and technology: relationship issues, attention/addiction problems, and the lack of privacy. Instead of shielding children completely from online images and messages, Steyer’s practical approach gives parents essential tools to help filter content, preserve good relationships with their children, and make common sense, value-driven judgments for kids of all ages.
Not just about Facebook, this comprehensive, no-nonsense guide to the online world, media, and mobile devices belongs in the hands of all parents and educators raising kids in today’s digital age.
Not just about Facebook, this comprehensive, no-nonsense guide to the online world, media, and mobile devices belongs in the hands of all parents and educators raising kids in today’s digital age.
Description: In this article by the American Psychological Association, tips are given to parents or guardians whose child might be the victim of bullying or are the ones bullying someone else.
Description: In this article by the American Psychological Association, tips are given to parents or guardians whose child might be the victim of bullying or are the ones bullying someone else.
Description: The Bully Project is a project that started to educate students about bullying but then they shifted their focus to include Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in all schools. The website has tools to empower parents and guardians to talk about bullying with their kids.
Description: The Bully Project is a project that started to educate students about bullying but then they shifted their focus to include Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in all schools. The website has tools to empower parents and guardians to talk about bullying with their kids.
Description: Violence Prevention Works created a guide to help parents and guardians protect their children from bullying and to support safe schools. This guide includes tips on how to not only talk to children about bullying but teachers as well.
Description: Violence Prevention Works created a guide to help parents and guardians protect their children from bullying and to support safe schools. This guide includes tips on how to not only talk to children about bullying but teachers as well.
Additional Resources
Additional Resources
Succeed Boston
Succeed Boston
Succeed Boston @ the Counseling & Intervention Center supports student growth by planting SEEDS: Social, Emotional, Educational, and Decision Making Skills, that promotes students' ability to assess risk, consider consequences, and improve decision making skills.
Succeed Boston @ the Counseling & Intervention Center supports student growth by planting SEEDS: Social, Emotional, Educational, and Decision Making Skills, that promotes students' ability to assess risk, consider consequences, and improve decision making skills.
Succeed Boston has established a Safe Space and Bullying Prevention Hotline that is available 24/7 and staffed by trained Succeed Boston at the Counseling and Intervention Center's staff. To report incidents of bullying, please call 617- 592-2378. Please note, this not an emergency line. If there is an emergency please go to the nearest emergency room or call 911.
Succeed Boston has established a Safe Space and Bullying Prevention Hotline that is available 24/7 and staffed by trained Succeed Boston at the Counseling and Intervention Center's staff. To report incidents of bullying, please call 617- 592-2378. Please note, this not an emergency line. If there is an emergency please go to the nearest emergency room or call 911.
24/7 Respect Program
24/7 Respect Program
24/7 Respect is a program, created by the Boston Public Schools (BPS) Office of Equity, to empower students to address and report bias-based and sexual misconduct, whether it is in-person or online.
24/7 Respect is a program, created by the Boston Public Schools (BPS) Office of Equity, to empower students to address and report bias-based and sexual misconduct, whether it is in-person or online.
Students in grades 6 through 12 watch and discuss the film, "24/7 Respect," to better understand how to identify and report bias-based and sexual misconduct. In addition, schools are provided with optional lesson plans, enabling students to deepen their understanding of how to foster a safe, respectful, and welcoming environment for all.
Students in grades 6 through 12 watch and discuss the film, "24/7 Respect," to better understand how to identify and report bias-based and sexual misconduct. In addition, schools are provided with optional lesson plans, enabling students to deepen their understanding of how to foster a safe, respectful, and welcoming environment for all.
The BPS Office of Equity launched 24/7 Respect in the spring of 2019 in response to an alarming nationwide increase in students engaging in bias-based and sexual misconduct, including posting offensive racial comments online and "sexting."
The BPS Office of Equity launched 24/7 Respect in the spring of 2019 in response to an alarming nationwide increase in students engaging in bias-based and sexual misconduct, including posting offensive racial comments online and "sexting."
You can learn more about the 24/7 Respect program, here.
You can learn more about the 24/7 Respect program, here.
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