Originally posted on Association for Middle Level Education's blog. No matter what you teach, if you are a middle school teacher you want to set up some norms and guidelines for...
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This originally appeared on Brigitte Peck’s blog, I am not Super Woman! here. At first I could convince myself it was normal. Transitioning to middle school is hard. He’s tired. He…
It’s easy to get down right now. But we need to remember that in spite of all the ugliness and meanness that surrounds us, many of us all over the country continue…
Cliques, gossiping, and backstabbing. We assume that these are the unfortunate realities we deal with in school but then thankfully leave behind us when we graduate. But for many of…
Once you have talked to your child about bullying, what do you do if the problem gets worse and you need to report it to a teacher or school administrator?…
In our travels around the country, we meet incredible young people who share their stories. This one of them. By: Jeffrey Bi // Florida The event that marked my transition…
Don't Wait to Talk to Your Child About Bullying By Rosalind Wiseman It’s back to school so parents are naturally preoccupied about getting everything ready. We run around filling out...
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Thanks to the rise of technology and social media, mean girls are now getting even meaner. I spoke with the New York Post to discuss what is happening in girl…
What I always tell young people is that you’re going to have conflicts with people and there are going to be times when people abuse their power. Part of growing…
Introduction In middle school our group got really close, but we had one friend who was really bad. She would pick one of us to be her BFF. Even in…
Dear Past, Thank you for all the lessons, Dear future, I am now ready. In the past, I had always wanted to be popular to hang around with the cool...
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Stop Tearing Your Hair Out: What To Do When Bullying Interventions Don’t Work By Rosalind Wiseman The question I’m tackling this month is what to do when bullying interventions...
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Check out Rosalind’s collection of videos created for Kids in the House, the website with advice from over 350 experts and parents issues from conception to college and beyond. Rosalind has over thirty-four videos on Kids In...
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For this edition of Rosalind’s Classroom Conversations, I asked ADL education staff across the country what issues they were hearing about from teachers and students to address in my next essay….
How do we get young people to take ownership of what they do that contributes to someone else’s humiliation, social exclusion or dehumanization? How do we create a learning environment...
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