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Educators, Contact Us to Book Your School’s Trip to the Kidsbridge Tolerance Museum today!
As we head into the second half of the 2012-2013 academic year, we at Kidsbridge wish to remind you that there are dates available to bring your students for a class trip to the Kidsbridge Tolerance Museum. Located on campus at The College of New Jersey in Ewing (Trenton area), we’ve got openings beginning in late January…
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Two Teens Spread The Word About BULLY Movie
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyjI_USkjHE&w=420&h=315] Stand for the Silent is an organization run by a parent who lost a child due to bullying, This new video, created by two teens, Ali and Marley, was made to show appreciation for this organization & empathy with victims of bullying. They were inspired to get the word out in their own community after…
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History and Impact of Kidsbridge
In January 2006, Kidsbridge created the Tolerance Museum (a.k.a. learning lab) on campus at The College of New Jersey. The Tolerance Museum features “Face to Face: Dealing with Prejudice and Discrimination,” an exhibit created by the Chicago Children’s Museum that focuses on diversity appreciation and tolerance. Since this exhibit opened, the Tolerance Museum experience has…
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School Bullying Infographic
School Bullying infographic from The MAT@USC blog (University of Southern California)
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NJ Toughest Anti-Bullying Law
Are you aware that NJ has one of the best and toughest anti-bullying laws in the country effective this September ? The 2009 report by the New Jersey Commission on Bullying in Schools helped push this law into reality. Do you feel like this law will help? Does this 2009 report portray your school’s environment? How will the law affect your classroom and/or teaching style?…
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“New Jersey has been Proactive in Addressing School Bullying”
Stop bullies’ devastation in all its many forms Friday, September 17, 2010 SPECIAL TO THE TIMES Bullying in our schools is unacceptable behavior and it must cease. Its consequences are devastating. Bullying has been linked to student suicides in Massachusetts, Virginia and New Jersey. In California, a transgender student was murdered. Victim anorexia, low self-esteem,…
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The Bystander Epidemic
When we turn a blind eye to students who are bystanders to bullying, we are telling our students that it is okay to not stand and speak up against the problems that they or their peers are facing. If we continue to promote pro-active students, we will stop the epidemic of bystanders in our society.…
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Cyberbullying and Your Child
Elizabeth K Englander, the founder and director of the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center at Bridgewater State college, answered NY times readers questions on cyberbullying. The selected question for today’s article was, “What happens when my child is the cyberbully?” Too often parents are quick to turn a blind eye when they find out that their…
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Schools Handling Cyberbullying?
Two sixth grade boys at Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Ridgewood, NJ texted dozens of sexually explicit threats to one of their female classmates. When the fearful girl went to the prinicipal he replied, “We can’t discipline him” since the text messages occured outside of school hours. The parents, who did not want to…
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NY to Adopt an Anti-Bullying Bill
After a decade of debate, NY may adopt an anti-bullying bill that would require all school districts to report incidents of bullying to the State Education Department. Assemblyman Daniel J. O’Donnell, the main advocate for the bill said, “What we’re trying to do is nip bullying in the bud.” The bill passed, 58 to 3,…