Anti-Bullying Resources

Websites:

• Common Sense Media: Provides resources for parents, educators, and advocates on the topic of cyber-bullying.
• H.E.A.R (Helping Everyone Achieve Respect): National research-based program designed to prevent bullying and promote respect among students. Provides tips for parents, students, and educators.
• National Education Association: Provides prevention resources for parents and educators.
• StopBullying.gov: A site managed by the federal government that defines bullying, offers tips on prevention, and provides a step-by-step approach to stopping bullying if it's happening to you or someone you know.
• Teaching Tolerance: Provides anti-bullying tip sheets for students and information for both parents and educators.

Books:

• Bullying and Cyberbullying: "Bullying is a term that’s being, well, bullied. It’s been rendered essentially powerless by being constantly kicked around,” writes nationally recognized bullying expert Elizabeth Kandel Englander. In this practical and insightful book, Englander dispels pervasive myths and misconceptions about peer cruelty, bullying, and cyberbullying. Drawing on her own and others’ research, she shows how educators can flag problematic behaviors and frame effective responses. Englander puts a special focus on “gateway” behaviors—those subtle actions that, unchecked, can quickly escalate into more serious misbehavior—and explores how students perceive their own and their peers’ behavior."
• Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy: "Blending keen journalistic and narrative skills, Bbazelon explores different faces of bullying through the stories of three young people who found themselves in the thick of it.... The result is a groundbreaking book that will help parents, educators, and teens themselves better understand what kids are going through today and what can be done to help them through it."