Provocative Victims and 7+ Practices for Victory

8 Questions to Tackle in Setting Instructional Outcomes

The tale of two districts…as told by an over active planner! One district spent all its money on a new elementary building, but not updating curriculum. The other district spent all its money on curriculum and the school buildings were in major need of repair. As a new teacher, I navigated creating instructional outcomes for…

9 Questions to Tackle in Demonstrating Knowledge of Your Students

Magic can be seen and heard…I can prove it! Teachers who can connect with any student, even those hard to like students, is something special. You can see them talking, hugging, high-fiving, and complementing these students. In fact, they do it so well, that the student cannot help himself or herself from showing respect back…

10 Questions to Tackle in Demonstrating Knowledge of Content and Pedagogy

In the late 90’s, many new educators created portfolios to show prospective employers when they went job hunting. It was thought that these employers would spend time digging into the portfolio contents and make a decision on hiring one of us! While I hope many administrators did this, I feel my portfolio was never thoroughly…

Eight Ways to Teach Empathy

Back to the main Bully Prevention Guide. Teaching empathy may be the most effective strategy that we can use to raise socially conscious students. Empathy crosses all curriculum areas and can be used to empower students to think, be responsible, and advocate for themselves and others. In fact, devising curricular experiences that support a student’s development…

One School Wide Philosophy: High-Trusting Relationships

Back to the main Bully Prevention Guide. PU #52 - School-Wide Philosophy Regular teachers are really done with school, just like many of the kids that cause problems in their classrooms. These teachers start sending more kids to the office than ever before. It seems what was once tolerable, manageable, and not a problem, is now…

13 Ideas to Combat Bullying at the Community Level

Back to the main Bully Prevention Guide. You have to watch this video from a recent school board meeting June 5, 2017 from Green Bay, Wisconsin. Click here. After watching the video that went viral on Facebook recently, I was horrified to hear from this seasoned award-winning teacher that she was leaving the profession because of…

6 of the Most Hideous Cyber Bullying Tactics Used By Students

Back to the main Bully Prevention Guide. I loved this meme from Facebook I recently read, it states… It seems both my son’s should be classified as “Wifi Explorers.” They constantly look for Wifi hot spots so they can stay connected without using their data. As parents, we are thankful for the data limits we can…

3 Types of Bullying in School + 1 Immense Social Challenge

Back to the main Bully Prevention Guide. PU #1 - Verbal Bullying Behavior The varied forms of verbal bullying are as infinite as there are words in any language. For bullying behavior to be classified as verbal bullying, it must be heard, repeated over time, and there is an imbalance of power between the students…

20 Ideas to Successfully Use Bully Data

Back to the main Bully Prevention Guide. Data, data, data….it can be cumbersome and it can consume you. How can you make the data you collect work for you? Many times people collect data and never use it. This is a waste of your time and possibly others as well! Get rid of unneeded data collection.…