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One of the great challenges in bullying prevention is addressing contempt. Contempt is a dehumanizing bias that individuals in the school environment, students and adults…

In the recent Apple TV+ documentary The Super Models, Cindy Crawford told how, as a high school student, she was teased and mocked by her…

Recently I listened to a presentation by a nationally recognized expert on cyberbullying in an event sponsored by a regional organization focused on kindness and…

In honor of Banned Book Week, I though I’d mention a great line from the book “The 57 Bus” by Dashka Slater, a wonderful nonfiction…

This will sound like a setup to a joke, so please bear with me. Two students walk into the principal’s office. One points at the…

The Rockaway Township School District in New Jersey recently settled with the parents of Mallory Grossman over its failure to take appropriate action to stop…

The parents of Mallory Grossman, a 12-year-old girl who died by suicide in 2017 after being bullied at Copeland Middle School in the Rockaway Township…

A reminder to any school principal who is planning bullying prevention education for the next school year: An effective program should include students, educators, and…

Given the Governor of Texas’s recent order to treat gender-affirming care as child abuse—which opens the door to investigating parents, teachers, doctors, and others involved…

In my work in bullying prevention, I’ve advocated for dropping the terms “bully” and “victim” to describe, respectively, the one who uses the aggressive behavior…