By Anne Collier Apologies in advance for a slightly parasitic blog post, but this thoughtful piece by Prof. Justin Patchin of the Cyberbullying Research Center –
By Anne Collier The use of kindness as a conscious, very effective grassroots solution to bullying is picking up steam. Where youth are concerned, sometimes the kindness is
By Anne Collier We so want to believe it: that the fact that Twitter and Instagram are actively taking down #purge-related accounts signals “the tipping point of this
By Anne Collier In the preface to her new book, Positive Relations @School (& Elsewhere), author and risk-prevention educator Nancy Willard tells of a conversation with a
By Anne Collier What do a high school student who’s a bullying prevention activist, two criminology professors and Safer Internet Day (February 11) have in common?
By Anne Collier You may have seen “The Bullying Experiment” video that has gone viral (as of this writing, 3.1 million views on YouTube). Two actors stage a
By Anne Collier There’s an upside and a serious downside to monitoring students in social media, and the upside doesn’t involve outsourcing (that was an
By Anne Collier This has been stated before but not seen (or reported) enough: Cyberbullying is not an epidemic, even though news reports about it seem to have reached