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Solutions…
How Do We Fix the Bullying Problem?
Magic Wands Don't Exist in the Real World
by Katy Allen
copyright © 2003 Impact Training, Inc.
Unless your school is Hogwarts, magic wands don't exist. And even
though everyone at Hogwarts has a magic wand, interestingly enough,
they have their bullies, too. And just like the world we live in,
bullies come in “child” versions and “adult”
versions.
Fixing a problem
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Parent
Involvement:
Terrible Torture or Powerful Panacea?
by Katy Allen
copyright © 2006 Impact Training, Inc.
How I got involved in “PI”
A little knowledge is a curse. I spent two years studying parent
involvement in education, and I acquired a little knowledge, and I am cursed. Why?
Because there is A LOT of knowledge out there on the subject of schools and families
and how they connect and work together (or don’t work together). The result of the
two years was a book called, The Rosemary Project: A Resource Guide on School,
Family, and Community Partnerships, and because it is a publication that gets
out of date each time something new is published, I vowed to keep it up to date by...more
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Bullying
and Self-Esteem: Is There A Connection?
by Katy Allen
copyright © 2006 Impact Training, Inc.
What people think
One of the most widely held beliefs is that bullies have low self-esteem.
A great deal of non-academic (and some academic) writing endorses this assumption.
In selfhelp books, children who are bullied are told that bullies do it because
they feel badly about themselves and bullying helps them feel better. In books for
parents whose children are the targets of bullies, the reader is told that...more
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A “Whole
System” Approach to
Dealing with Violence…
Band Aids Alleviate Pain, But Don’t Solve
the Problem
by Katy Allen
copyright © 2005 Impact Training, Inc.
School violence is systemic. That means that there are multiple,
interrelated factors contributing to the problem. Beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors
at several levels… community, district, school, class, and individual, contribute to
a situation where safety can be uncertain and hurtful behaviors are common. All educators
know that when there is a culture of violence and aggression within a school, the classroom,
or an entire system, teaching and learning are difficult. Most educators don’t
like working in this type of system, but changing it, at first look, is an overwhelming
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The Other
“R” or “Rs…”
What Happens in the Classroom Is More
Than Readin’, Writin’, and ‘Rithmetic
by Katy Allen
copyright © 2005 Impact Training, Inc.
Most teachers have become educators because they love a certain
subject area and wish to share that knowledge and enthusiasm with children. That
was certainly the primary motivation for me when I chose English Education as my undergraduate
major. Aside from studying literature and grammar, I also studied adolescent
psychology and educational philosophy. But what I had very little exposure to was
how to manage a classroom and intervene when students behaved in less than model
ways. And I found that my difficulties as a teacher came, not in dealing with student
to student conflict, but in situations where the conflict was between the student and me.
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