Tag Archives: Anti bullying

Edgartown elementary school Martha’s vineyard

I just had the great opportunity to speak at Edgartown elementary school on Martha’s vineyard. What made this event so special was the effort the school was showing to support students and parents. How many times a PTO hires us and the principal never sets foot inside the gym to see what I was speaking

Year in review for reportbullying.com

Review-Well it was another great year for reportbullying.com. We traveled all across the United States speaking to students, training teachers and educating parents on their role and how to work with schools to reduce bullying. We traveled to Arizona, California, New York, New jersey, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Ohio and many other cities and states. the best

Workplace Bullying

Bullying occurs in many ways, having many faces, and occurring in many different places and situations.   Bullying is a terrible insidious action that happens and it affects everyone involved.  Many people don’t even recognize that bullying is occurring.  We can easily observe bullying when we see someone going up to another person with a fist

Do boys and girls bully differently

        When it comes to bullying boys and girls can bully using the same actions but we do see a difference when we look at it as a whole. Boys do what we call direct bullying, this is punching, kicking, shoving, knocking books out of people’s hands, throwing things at another person.

The positive side of Discipline – Teachers

positive side of Discipline

Positive Discipline As a teacher, when you instruct your students on a procedure or a policy and later learn that the students have not done what you instructed them to do, how would you react? Hand out punishment, or, try to analyze why they did not do what they were asked to do. When I

TEACHERS – Why are you here? part 2

Unless an employee entirely understands what they do, they can easily fail on WHY they are there. However, good communication provides a better understanding to all employees of their job, and more importantly how they fit into the WHY or the mission of the company. Employees, who believe that what they do is the only

Toronto schools combating anti-bullying problems

Toronto schools combating anti bullying problems

I’m here in the eastern part of Toronto where I’ll be speaking to 4 middle schools and 2 high schools about how to become proactive in reducing bullying. What I like the most is how excited they are to implement our anti-bullying program. It is critical to have a follow-up after an assembly to keep

Anti bullying programs

We just got back from a two week intense training for students and parents.  We spoke at 13 schools teaching students the role of the bystanders so that  the school system could use our follow up to keep the message going strong. For some schools you could see that the principal and staff where on

Bullying it has to stop

Bullying is not just a bad dream which will be over when you wake up. It is a nightmare which will go away only if we all open our eyes to this reality and choose to look out through all the windows. School Boards, along with the State boards and Ministry of Education, must demonstrate