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 are driven developmentally by the desire to fit in, to belong, to be part of an affinity group. If we can capitalize on their desire to look out for their friends and give them some more tools and opportunities and support, they will begin to do what we need them to do to at least confront it in their own small cell of social influence and the compounding and leveraging of that begins to make change
Also have an art contest, imagine peace where we honor kids at a ballgame later in the year just so kids can interpret and show their form of how they interpret antibullying and peace in this society. You know, its not perfect, it doesnt always work. I think sometimes people tune us out. But we feel strongly that with the partnerships that we have in the community we can make an impact and i think theres a bias or theres an assumption in sports that its a homophobic industry, its almost like that man bites dog, people look up and say, wait a minute, thats not the way to do things. We have talked about policy, legal, now you hear about organizations doing boots on the ground and doing work in their communities. Michael, you said something interesting, that family can sometimes not be a positive influence. Lets get micro, what influences do you draw upon, what influenced you to become an antibias aspect, personal or family, aspects of your own cultural identity . Okay, being the eldest o
Environment and changing social norms is not secondary, its primary and when we all embrace that then well begin to see the changes in the policies and the practices and well begin to get the results we want. We need to advocate for improving the social climates of our public schools, not more rigor, more relationships. Better relationships. Something that has come up in some disparate ways today is bullying and Cyber Bullying but weve seen the line between the two has blurred quite a bit. Its harder for schools to deal with things happening in an out of school context. A really recent example of that are the mob protests in the middle east right now that are going on that some say were sparked by an antimuslim video that was put online and went viral. I wonder if any of your programs how you are dealing with the interconnectedness between whats happening in the online world and then whats happening in the offline world and the connection between hate speech and online bullying with wh
Homophobic industry, its almost like that man bites dog, people look up and say, wait a minute, thats not the way to do things. We have talked about policy, legal, now you hear about organizations doing boots on the ground and doing work in their communities. Michael, you said something interesting, that family can sometimes not be a positive influence. Lets get micro, what influences do you draw upon, what influenced you to become an antibias aspect, personal or family, aspects of your own cultural identity . Okay, being the eldest of three and a vietnamese family is very difficult. Throw in being gay, it makes it a lot more stressful. And throw in being clinically labeled as obese at age 13, you have a recipe for bullying and discrimination all over. So that was me. And it was hard and it wasnt until someone took a chance on me and mr. Burket saved my life. There are moments where ive been in the shoes where my youth have been. If it wasnt for mr. Burket, i wouldnt be here and i woul
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 conditions in which 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 that idea that we are in this thing together . We believe its through, unfortunately but truly, selfinterest. Kids are driven developmentally by the desire to fit in, to belong, to be p