By Anne Collier We need to prevent and solve bullying. No question. But we also need to encourage and empower our children with the knowledge that most kids don’t
By Anne Collier Being Ginger is really about being human. In a fundamentally kind, sometimes humorous, amazingly un-moralistic way, director Scott Harris shows what it both
By Anne Collier My heart sinks when I see uncritical thinking in commentaries from Internet safety advocates about the media young people love – thinking that defaults (and
By Anne Collier Here’s a model for preventing bullying and a whole lot of other problems: a school that promotes social literacy not zero tolerance. At the Boston
Think how digital spaces, homes, schools, workplaces and everywhere else we human beings congregate would change were every child to be kindly, respectfully taught the
By Anne Collier This post (like a few others, recently) is inspired by my participation on the Aspen Institute Task Force on Learning and the Internet that got started last
By Anne Collier Although the victim is usually the focus in discussions about the impacts of social cruelty, everybody involved in it feels some pain or distress, research
By Anne Collier More than 50 Chicago schools were recommended for closure this year, but one of the four schools that won’t close isn’t closing because of its