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There are hundreds of
reference books that deal with the problems of
bullying/harassment. I have selected these few that have
all been published since 2000. I know that there are more
that I could add here, I just haven’t had time to
read them yet. Send me your favorites. --Cj
Building Classroom Communities:
Strategies for Developing a Culture of Caring. David
A. Levine. Bloomington, IN: National Educational Service,
2003. Imagine teaching empathy and building classroom
communities to prevent bullying and other disrespectful
behaviors. This book helps to do just that.
The Bullying in the Book and in
the Classroom. CJ. Bott. Lanham, MD. Scarecrow
Press, 2004. This is my book and it is for adults who
work with children and young adults. There are over 200
titles from picture books to high school novels that
contain the major theme of bullying. Start a dialogue
about bullying from an objective position before you have
to discipline from a subjective position.
Bullying: Deal with it Before
Push Comes to Shove. Elaine Slaven. Illustrated by
Brooke Kerrigan. Toronto, ON: James Lorimer &
Company, 2003. Aimed at students, this highly illustrated
booklet is excellent. It discusses all types of bullying
and has quizzes and self checks to get the points across
clearly. Lorimer & Company have created a series of
these books. Check out all of them.
Cyberbullying And Cyberthreats:
Responding To The Challenge Of Online Social Aggression,
Threats, And Distress by Nancy E. Willard. Research
Press, Champaign, Illinois. 2007. This is my new favorite
professional book on cyberbullying. It contains an
immense amount of information that adults needs to know
to help the children in their lives.
Girl Wars: Twelve Strategies That
Will End Female Bullying. Cheryle Dellasega, and
Charisse Nixon. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.
This book presents a thorough discussion of Relational
Aggression and ways adults can work to prevent it and
help those involved.
Mean Chicks, Cliques, and Dirty
Tricks: A Real Girl’s Guide to Getting Through the
Day with Smarts and Style. Erika V. Shearin
Karres.Avon, MA: Adams Media, 2004. This book has solid
information presented in a style that makes it attractive
to teen girls. Through out there are quizzes that will
help the reader realize how she might react to mean
chicks and cliques.
Program for Gay and Lesbian
Students. Boston: Beacon Press, 2001. An excellent
resource for helping students who are gay or are
perceived-to-be gay. Gay bashing is the biggest
harassment problem in school today. This program provides
answers for every question or scenario you can think
of.
When the Drama Club Is Not
Enough: Lessons from the Safe SchoolsProgram for
Gay and Lesbian Students. Jeff Perrotti and Kim
Westheimer. Boston: Beacon Press, 2001. Gay bashing is
the biggest harassment problem in school today. This
program provides answers for every question or scenario
you can think of and is an excellent resource for helping
students who are gay or are perceived-to-be gay.
www.isafe.org
i-SAFE Inc. is the worldwide leader in Internet safety
education. Founded in 1998 and endorsed by the U.S.
Congress, i-SAFE is a non-profit foundation dedicated to
protecting the online experiences of youth everywhere.
i-SAFE incorporates classroom curriculum with dynamic
community outreach to empower students, teachers,
parents, law enforcement, and concerned adults to make
the Internet a safer place.
www.csriu.org
The Center for Safe and Responsible Internet
Use has been established
to provide outreach services addressing issues of the
safe and
responsible use of the Internet. Our goal is to provide
guidance to
parents, educators, librarians, policy-makers, and others
regarding
effective, empowerment strategies to assist young people
in gaining the
knowledge, skills, motivation, and self-control to use
the Internet and
other information technologies in a safe and responsible
manner.
www.cyberbully.org
An extremely useful and complete reference source, this
site created by Nancy Willard provides many of the guides
and informative pieces that are in Willard’s book,
Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats: Respoonding to the
challenge of online social aggression, threats, and
distress.
www.cskcst.com
Cyber-safe kids, cyber savvy teens, this
site is directed to teens, but adults are allowed to
look, too. Thee is also a book by this name, I just got
it and haven’t read it yet.
www.cyberbullying.ca
(Also cyberbullying.org)
"Cyberbullying involves the use of information and
communication technologies such as e-mail, cell phone and
pager text messages, instant messaging, defamatory
personal Web sites, and defamatory online personal
polling Web sites, to support deliberate, repeated, and
hostile behaviour by an individual or group, that is
intended to harm others." -Bill Belsey
www.cyberbullying.usA central repository and
information clearinghouse for the phenomenon of
cyberbullying. To note, cyberbullying is also called
"cyber bullying," "electronic
bullying," "e-bullying," "sms
bullying," "mobile bullying," "online
bullying," "digital bullying," or
"Internet bullying." Here we will make
available the latest news and headlines, and provide
research findings, press releases, reports, and a number
of useful resources and materials to assist those in
positions that directly or indirectly deal with this
problem.
www.bewebaware.ca
Internet 101--For parents who have grown up with
television, raising today's Internet generation can
be daunting. Kids know more about the technology and they
use the Internet differently from adults, so it is not
surprising that parents often feel at a disadvantage.
This site will help parents take the first step towards
becoming more aware and involved by explaining the
different technologies that kids use and the activities
they like.
www.mindohfoundation.org/bullying.htm
MindOH!, an e-Learning company focused on character
education. MindOH! creates interactive computer modules
that teach students problem-solving techniques and
communication skills, reinforcing universally held
virtues such as respect and responsibility. The MindOH!
co-founders wanted to extend the reach of character
education by creating a supporting charitable
organization with the versatility to reach youth in their
communities.
www.netbullies.com
The four types of online bullies include:
- The Vengeful Angel
- The Power-Hungry or Revenge of the Nerds
- The “Mean Girls”
- The Inadvertent Cyberbullying or “Because I
Can.”
www.wiredkids.org
While a large portion of Wired
Kids, Inc.’s work involves preventing and helping
investigate cybercrimes and abuses, wired Kids also has a
softer side with many online safety games for younger
children. There is also helpful information for children
of all ages, teachers, parents and law
enforcement.
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