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Bullied. I have been bullied. I know what its like. Its not cool. You need to stop. Telling them your personal story or personal story and making them realize its real makes them want to do something about it. I know i talk a lot. Im sorry. The thing that i would say is get youth involved with some kind of Youth Development organization like one of the best in the world 4h. We do a lot you can tell i love 4h very much. We do a lot with bullying prevention. We do a lot with preventing the bad stuff and promoting good stuff. Our biggest motto to make the best bester. Thats what we do. Thats what...

I would like to introduce the first session which is entitled bullying trends where we have been, where we are now and where we are going. We have three excellent speakers for the session. First up is mr. Tom snyder from the department of education. He is the director of annual reports and information staff at the National Center for Education Statistics and is a recognized expert on Education Statistics. [ applause ] thank you for this opportunity to come talk to you about some of the data that we collect and compile at the National Center for Education Statistics. Many of the things i am goi...

I was on a panel with denise and dewey corp nel where we talked about a school perspective. This is where the body of literature is the largest, i would like to say the strongest but there are still a lot of gaps in this particular area. Denise talked a lot about school climate. I was happy to hear that was picked up in the themes today and talked about legal issues and policies and zero tolerance and some of the reactive approaches that schools often take about video cameras and metal detectors. We dont have research to show they have a strong impact on reducing bullying. I spoke about meta a...

The virus grows, if you follow the metaphor that bullying is a systemic virus, then the environment has to change so the virus cannot grow and the only way the environment changes is if youth and adults begin to speak with one voice about changing the social norms that allows it to happen. It makes sense to most of us, you have it khaifrpb the social norms. We must educate. But we must go beyond thinking more rigor will get us better achievement. We have to remember a school is a community and in a xhuept, people look out for each other. Theyve got each others back. How do we begin to promote ...

I like that, thats great. Something that really resonated with me that tom said, if you simply tolerate diversity you are aspiring to mediocrity. Can you talk about the ambassadors, adults taking an active role to intervene when we witness bullying. All of us are humbled by the virus, how systemic its become. How do you get your hands around that . For me its top down and bottom up. We are Authority Figures and what we do for our children and thats care, but we need to empower them to become the leaders they are waiting to become. This notion of Youth Adult Partnership is esoteric in its term ...