“Respect your elders.” It’s an adage woven into our collective cultures. But this generation of young people sees ‘respect’ very differently and isn’t accustomed to hearing the word ‘dignity’. These...
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Creating a Cellphone Policy That Works for Everyone By Rosalind Wiseman TweetSharePinEmail It's common sense: Kids need consistent rules and expectations about how to be good citizens. The most common...
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Caught! How to Reach Out to the Student in Trouble By Rosalind Wiseman Students are going to get into trouble. They are going to make mistakes. They are going...
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What To Do When You’ve Tried Everything & The Bullying Won’t Stop by Rosalind Wiseman Bullying is more common than we may like to admit. Sometimes you have a...
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Thank You To The Teachers Who Stick By Our Children This week is Educator Appreciation Week and we want to help you honor the teachers in your life. We...
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Dignity vs Respect Dignity vs respect - Words with profound meaning but they’re also words that young people usually hear when adults are lecturing them or correcting their behavior. So...
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Ava Rigelhaupt is a founding member with the neurodiverse theatre company, Spectrum Theatre Ensemble of Providence. She lives in Rhode Island and is a rising junior at Sarah Lawrence College....
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By Rosalind Wiseman With my team at Cultures of Dignity, I am constantly working to improve our lesson plans for young people. Of course, some issues that young people...
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Of all the things to teach students about character development and bullying prevention, convincing them to talk to a person they’re angry with is probably the hardest. For good reason,...
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Who hasn't sent a text or email to the wrong person? Who hasn't posted something online they later regretted or seen something in their feed that made them uncomfortable? These...
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Five Ways to Get Young People to Take Us Seriously About Bullying Prevention 1. Teach children that it’s not always possible to avoid conflict. Instead, sometimes conflict happens, and...
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Respecting the Dignity of Words Dignity. Respect. Courage. They’re all words with profound meaning and they’re also regularly not really understood or internalized by young people when we teach...
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I've Got Your Back: Help Children Say Hello to Friends & Goodbye to Bullies, co-authored by Staci Schwartz and Lorna Blumen, is designed for parents, caregivers and/or teachers and children...
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A child’s ability to learn depends on educators managing a task that has nothing to do with what they may teach: guiding young people as they navigate social dynamics. Social...
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Photo Courtesy of LA Times Now Is The Time For Courageous Conversations Charlottesville Resources At Cultures of Dignity we are always working to uphold the dignity of all....
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