Student Experiences with Reporting Cyberbullying
Most students who are bullied do not report their experiences to adults. This was true 30 years ago when I endured middle school and our research shows it largely continues to this day. I remember being surprised (though maybe I shouldn’t have been) to learn from our first pilot study undertaken 15 years ago that […]
Bullying and Cyberbullying: How Schools Can Help Parents Do Their Part
This talk will teach participants to help educators form an alliance with parents to address bullying and cyberbullying where both realize they need to work together.
Facebook’s Global Safety Network Summit: Online Well-Being
A couple weeks ago, I attended Facebook’s annual Global Safety Network Summit in Washington, DC, to hang out with colleagues and long-time friends, and to make some new connections as well. Facebook first discussed the new safety initiatives they are implementing such as their outstanding new suicide prevention tools in Live and Messenger (check them […]
LEGAL ONE Social Media and Cyberbullying
This session will address the legal issues that arise when students, staff, and parents use social media. Issues to be addressed will include cyberbullying, student and staff First Amendment rights, using social media to screen job applicants, and legally permissible uses of social media. It will include the latest national research on the use of […]
Review of “UnSelfie”
Parenting expert and educational psychologist Dr. Michele Borba released a new book last week. This by itself isn’t newsworthy (she has, after all, published roughly a book a year for the last quarter of a century). But this latest contribution has the potential to have a significant impact on parents and their children. I’ve followed […]
Setting up a Free Bullying and Cyberbullying Reporting System with Google Voice
I have written in the past on anonymous reporting systems in schools, and I strongly advocate for them whenever I have the opportunity to speak to educators on how they should prevent cyberbullying. Based on your own observations, I am sure you’d agree with me that youth are way more comfortable texting/typing – especially when […]
Yakety Yak: What’s Up With Yik Yak?
I first wrote about Yik Yak back in March, when the app took several suburban schools by storm. High school administrators around Chicago were deluged with incidents stemming from inappropriate student use of this app, ranging from bullying to bomb threats. To their credit, the administrators of the app responded quickly and restricted its use […]
Community Empowerment Series
Bullying & Cyberbullying from National and International Prevention Experts, Stranger Danger Online & Off, Cyber-Civics, Safety & Security Online, Girls & Changing Bodies & Body Image Workshops Presented by: The Dance Company (link defunct) of St. Augustine Time: 9:00am (Workshop times TBA) Where: St. Augustine High School, 3205 Varella Ave, St Augustine, FL 32084 Why: […]
Should Schools Monitor Students’ Social Media Accounts?
There has been much discussion over the last few days about whether it is appropriate for schools to actively monitor the social media activities of students (I participated in a HuffPost Live discussion about this issue earlier today). At the center of this recent interest is Glendale Unified School District, which is located in Southern […]
School Climate 2.0: Reviews and Response
Since our book School Climate 2.0: Preventing Cyberbullying and Sexting One Classroom at a Time was published last year, the response has been amazing. Many educators have come up to us at events around the country to tell us how much they really appreciate the research-based information and strategies that they can put to use […]
