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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 but on the ground how do you operationalize it, those things in the Public School who are working so hard to meet the required mandates. Schools are driven by mandates, academic achievement, achievement, enrollment. But the condi...

One reach one, we have trained over 40 kids in the first year, a couple hundred young people at each school and they intervene at a minimum of two times a week. When you have the leaders of different cliques beginning to raise their voices, raise their courage because they are always bystanders, we are beginning to change social norms that makes it cool to be cruel and makes it more likely for kids to be cruel to be kind. Thats the job we have to do more than anything else and it will take our courage and their courage to make that happen. The good news is we have done Research Studies and we ...

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 that idea that we are in this thing together . We believe its through, unfortunately but truly, selfinterest. Kids ar...

3 largest districts in the country, new york, denver, maine, texas, florida, and the bay area. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome rebecca randell. Great, thank you, melinda. Im going to ask you all to come up now. As they get seated ill say a few words. All these panelists really bring a great wealth of experience and wisdom to what on the one hand is actually a really complicated issue and on the other hand at its very core is somewhat simple. Whether its online or offline, bullying and harassment or as the teens that we encounter at Common Sense Media often say, drama, its about power. As ...

Their voices, raise their courage because they are always bystanders, we are beginning to change social norms that makes it cool to be cruel and makes it more likely for kids to be cruel to be kind. Thats the job we have to do more than anything else and it will take our courage and their courage to make that happen. The good news is we have done Research Studies and we have evidence, as we move the slides forward and you have it if you go to our web site, that it works. When you begin to create a social Tipping Point by educating young people to raise their voice and giving them a tool so the...