Industry and funded by your local cable or satellite provider. Watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. Next, the first in a series of discussions from this Years National bullying prevention summit. Officials from the National Institutes of health and the Education Department describe trends in bullying behavior over the past year. It is part of an effort to create a National Strategy that engages private and public organizations. This is 45 minutes. Good morning, everyone. I would like to introduce the first session which is entitled bullying trends where we have been, where we are now and where we are going. We have three excellent speakers for the session. First up is mr. Tom snyder from the department of education. He is the director of annual reports and information staff at the National Center for Education Statistics and is a recognized expert on Education Statistics. [ applause ] thank you for this opportunity to come talk to you about some of the data tha
Discuss how to create a School Environment that discourages bullying behavior. The annual summit is part of an effort by the federal government to create a National Bullying prevention strategy. This panel is about 55 minutes. So, im going to go ahead and introduce rene and then mark will be back in a second. So, we had originally scheduled to have george sigay with us but unfortunately george had a death in the family and is unable to join us. Dr. Rene bradley will be stepping in for him. Shes the director of Research Office division in the office of special education programs. On positive behavioral interventions and supports for the last 16 years and were pleased to have her here with us today, so if everyone can give her a nice big round of applause. Good morning. Sorry about the break. I know its hard to sit, so dont feel like you cant get up and run. Obviously mark did. Im glad i went a little bit earlier. Im glad to be here today. I already disappointed my friend katherine sayin
Schools. Not all of them. But thats just an example that came to mind of supporting the contexts that you want to put into place. All right, thank you both very much. Lets give them another big round of applause. [ applause ] be part of cspans campaign 2014 coverage. Follow us on twitter and like us on facebook. To get debate schedules, video clips of key moments, debate previews from our politics team. Cspan is bringing you over 100 senate, house and governor debates and you can instantly share your reactions to what the candidates are saying. The battle for control of congress. Stay in touch and engage by following us on twitter at cspan and liking us on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Our special presentation of the National Bullying prevention summit continues. This next panel looks at specific examples of successful antibullying programs in local schools including efforts to support gay, lesbian and transgender students. This annual summit is part of an effort by the federal gove
For all students. Sorry. This clicker has a mind of its own a little bit. When were talking about what we want to do, we want to establish the capacity for improving classroom and School Climate. Other objectives that dovetail nicely with the talks this morning and our work on bullying, how we decrease reactive management, maximizing academic achievement to achieve the goals that we want to achieve broadly looking to pull all the different behavioral and emotional social issues together. A lot of people ask what is a positive School Climate . How can you see it when you go into a school. And the question is do you see it, do you feel it . Deb said this morning you walk into a school and you can know by just your first time in the school. Is it a good place to be . Is it a place that you want your children . When you walk into a school that has a positive School Climate what are the things we might see . We might see posters up identifying behavioral responses that are expected of child