Key takeaways on bullying prevention and intervention from a webinar featuring expert and scholar Dr. Dororthy Espelage. The event was hosted by Making Caring Common, Facing History and Ourselves, and The Choose Kindness Project.
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What do we know about bullying prevention and intervention? And how can we leverage technology and the voices of youth themselves to make prevention and intervention more effective?
Join Making Caring Common, Facing History and Ourselves, and The Choose Kindness Project for a must-see webinar with renowned bullying prevention and intervention expert, Dr. Dorothy Espelage. Dr. Espelage will discuss two decades of research and practice on bullying, including identity-based bullying and school and home-based prevention strategies. She also will highlight innovations in prevention and intervention, including youth-led campaigns and technology-based solutions.
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Cartoon Network has launched a campaign about how to be a positive gamer. These videos give kids tips on heading off bullying before it starts. Since 2010, Stop Bulling Speak Up has empowered kids to develop greater kindness, caring, and empathy.
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How can you prevent bullying at your school in the new year? We asked Glenn Manning, Making Caring Common’s Senior Program Coordinator and a former Wellness Coordinator at a large public school, for his advice.
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California’s Coronado Eagle & Journal writes about how kids can include others, drawing on our research with the Cartoon Network on bullying.
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Richard Weissbourd and Jennifer Kahn found that in schools where students reported having more empathy, students also reported fewer experiences of bullying and were more likely to try to stop bullying. Read more in this article in Nation Swell about how Roots of Empathy teaches children empathy — specifically by exposing them to babies.
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High school senior Natalie Hampton knows what it’s like to eat lunch alone. In junior high, she experienced bullying and harassment so severe that she eventually transferred to a different school. As she shared with Making Caring Common, “More than any of the physical attacks or verbal bullying, [eating lunch alone] demonstrated to me how ostracized I was from my school community, and it grew to be more hopeless as more and more people walked past my table without stopping.”
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