For decades now, schools have been organizing assemblies to address bullying, substance abuse, and a variety of other student issues. Perhaps like me, you remember sitting through them during middle or high school school and – unfortunately – tuning out because you just didn’t feel like you could connect with the speaker. When it came…
Shares the top ten ways teens can respond to cyberbullying, online harassment, and related victimization when it happens to them. (For a formatted .pdf version of this article for distribution, click on the image above [or click here]). Spanish Translation Available Here Here are a few ideas for what to do when you are being…
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The Cyberbullying Research Center provides a half-day (3 classroom hour) workshop for educators to learn how students use and misuse technology.
This adult presentation provides an overview of ways teens use & misuse technology. It also discusses what adults can do to help children be safe online.
Our high school assembly seeks to give students the information and tools to use technology safely, responsibly, and appropriately.
It’s important to empower student leaders at school to set the tone of appropriate offline and online behaviors for a ll. Here’s how.
This assembly for middle school students covers cyberbullying as well as the safe and responsible use of social media apps and websites.
Adolescent girls tend to participate in more indirect, less visible forms of bullying, including psychological and emotional harassment (e.g., rumor spreading and other forms of relational aggression). Given the fact that the vast majority of cyberbullying behaviors involve these indirect forms of harassment, it makes sense that most research suggests that girls appear equally as…
This presentation is designed for educators and other youth-serving professionals who want to help adolescents make wise choices when participating on various social media. First, a foundation of the many positives and benefits of online social networking is laid while also exploring the developmental, emotional, and psychological reasons why teens have gravitated towards these environments.…
Sexting is “the sending or receiving of sexually-explicit or sexually-suggestive images or video via a cell phone.” Most commonly, the term has been used to describe incidents where teenagers take nude or semi-nude (e.g., topless) pictures of themselves and distribute those pictures to others using their cell phones. The images are often initially sent to…
We can help you use any of our books to educate staff in your district. Each includes numerous supplemental staff development and discussion questions at the end of each chapter. You might convene a book discussion group where staff meet weekly or bi-weekly to discuss each section. This is often done in conjunction with an…
Our comprehensive training for educators to help them prevent and respond to cyberbullying, sexting, digital dating abuse, and other issues.
Our introductory training for educators to help them prevent and respond to cyberbullying, sexting, digital dating abuse, and other issues.
In this keynote, we share updated best practices for improving your school climate to prevent bullying and cyberbullying.
Our presentations are filled with practical take-home strategies that adult-serving youth can immediately implement to help their kids make wise decisions online.