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The community and the parents can manifest themselves in terms of who folks are picking out to target; right . So for example at maybe a high end school like lowell ore gunn you might have bullying because youre not taking enough ap class. I have heard this and there is so mush pressure and criticized by the peers if theyre not smart enough. In other schools its the opposite and bullied because they are smart when that is not the krult. Maybe in texas where its a different culture that we saw in the movie that perhaps football is everything and if a child isnt good at sports theyre an outcast....

Kind of things that we do, and i also do advocacy work so i come and speak at meetings like this. I was at the attorney generals meeting in Washington State and i would like to congratulate you and especially those in Law Enforcement in california for the high level of discourse that you have incredibly impressed today by what i have heard and my hats off to you for all the good work youre doing. So i do advocacy and part of that is kind of reaching out to people and bringing the message of social Emotional Learning not just to schools because educators kind of get it. Its not a stretch when w...

Components of it. As we heard earlier the federal department is close to approving a federal definition of bullying, so i do believe there is a lot of work in this area. I also think there is a lot of work going on in terms of evidence based practices in terms of interventions that is very exciting. Some of the information that we know is that about 80 of the bullying that goes on can pretty much be handled by some very prescribed ways of dealing with things. 20 requires really very targeted social emotional behavioral approach and i think that as we get better at that knowing what methods wor...

Enlighten us more in all that youre doing in social Emotional Learning. Sure. I had some slides but im not sure no, we have a handout that went around to you and more detail about what social Emotional Learning is because i think we rise a little bit today and i came from seattle and i know many people have brought up that term today and i get the sense from this group that youre at kind of a high level of discourse and you have a general understanding. Could i see a show of hands for those of you that social Emotional Learning is a familiar term . And those that feel you have a deep understan...

You feel there are different needs in different communities . And i think perhaps the Law Enforcement folks feel the cultures in the communities and see that come out in the adults. I would like to hear about how do you affect a culture and even in San Francisco we have many cultures affecting what is valued, what is criticized. You know i think that richard touched upon this. Its a relationship of power and its clearly going to differ from community to community; right. When i was telling you i was picked because because i didnt speak english or at all initially there were only about 5 of us ...