Having this training, having this awareness go beyond the schools is really important. So i thought id mention that. The other thing that we are moving towards in education is more digital. Well see less textbooks and more Digital Learning and with that we are promoting a Digital Literacy policy which deals with a number of issues and im going to go back and look at the draft policy to see how well it deals with the kind of issues rob and your family have dealt with in terms of using the internet safely and being aware of the harm you can do to yourself and to others by the way digital news can get around. Assemblyman. Thank you very much. Im very, very heartened. This was an issue thats been in the closet for too long. I think high profile nationally now as well and we have super stars involved, lady gaga, myself, but you got to reach young people. Usually peers are the best, i think, in terms of communicating things and then absolutely the parents. Lets keep working, im only as good
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 you heard the boy on the video say, im the big dog. Who has it, who wants it and who wants to keep it. I realize this is an incredibly simple definition so i will leave it to our panel to pick it apart and to delve deeper. Each of our panelists will have the opportunity to give a brief introduction of who they are and their organizations and after weve done the rounds i will pose a series of quest
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 they feel more competent to do it, they will naturally do it. It is their nature. As they do it, other kids, positive social peer influence, do it. We change the norms in our school. Suspensions have decreased nationally in the thousand schools weve been in by more than 30 percent, discipline referrals go down because young people are defusing the escalating interrupting, preventing and stopping inju
Maybe somebody loves me. Im always touched by that. Some day bullying will be something of the past. I also wanted to say we need to work and i see representatives here of cities and counties because those same children are on sports teams under the city rec department, they are receiving services and they are in programs with the county and so having this training, having this awareness go beyond the schools is really important. So i thought id mention that. The other thing that we are moving towards in education is more digital. Well see less textbooks and more Digital Learning and with that we are promoting a Digital Literacy policy which deals with a number of issues and im going to go back and look at the draft policy to see how well it deals with the kind of issues rob and your family have dealt with in terms of using the internet safely and being aware of the harm you can do to yourself and to others by the way digital news can get around. Assemblyman. Thank you very much. Im ve
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 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 m