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Battling Bullying: Cool Ways Five Kids Are Standing Up for Themselves and Their Classmates
Parade
October 1, 2016
October is National Bullying Prevention Month, and this year marks its 10-year anniversary. The campaign was founded in 2006 by PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center as a way to unite communities and raise awareness about bullying prevention.
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Kindness should be planned, not random
CNN
September 7, 2016
Instead of celebrating random acts of kindness, it would be more effective if people planned being kind and made an effort to include others.
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9 Children’s Books That Teach Your Child To Stand Up For Others
Romper.com
September 9, 2016
A few years ago, I got a job working for Girl Scouts. I began as a Troop Leader, but within a few months I was running an anti-bullying program for middle school children. Though running the program was a really great experience for me, one not so great thing was learning that many children never discuss the topic of bullying.
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An Effective but Exhausting Alternative to High-School Suspensions
The New York Times
September 7, 2016
When kids get into trouble at school, traditional forms of discipline often lead to more trouble. Is there a more productive way to change behavior?
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Restorative Discipline Practices: A Socially-Emotionally Intelligent Alternative to Punishment
Academy for Social-Emotional Learning in Schools
August 31, 2016
One of the central injustices in the US education system is the disproportionately low educational attainment of minority students. This achievement gap has many causes that are outside the reach of schools, including the impacts of poverty and racism on child development. But recent research has found a key factor that schools do control.
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To Raise Kids With More Empathy, We Need to Do Everything Wrong
TIME
September 19, 2016
According to recent research, more emphasis needs to be placed on non-cognitive skills such as empathy and emotional literacy, rather than just academics.
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