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Bullies & Victims explores the context of teasing and the power of relationships between children, as well as the roles of adults, schools, the media, and society at large.
In this timely and thought provoking book, the authors explore the effects of bullying on children and provide suggestions to end the cycle of child-to-child violence. Filled with personal stories from children and packed with practical ideas for parents, teachers and students.
Jewish theatre—plays about and usually by Jews—enters the twenty-first century with a long and distinguished history. To keep this vibrant tradition alive, the National Foundation for Jewish Culture established the New Play Commissions in Jewish Theatre in 1994. The commissions are awarded in an annual competition. Their goal is to help emerging and established dramatists develop new works in collaboration with a wide variety of theatres. Since its inception, the New Play Commissions has contributed support to more than seventy-five professional productions, staged readings, and workshops. This anthology brings together nine commissioned plays that have gone on to full production. Ellen ...
Exposes the new generation of whiteness thriving at the expense and borrowed ingenuity of black people—and explores how this intensifies racial inequality. American culture loves blackness. From music and fashion to activism and language, black culture constantly achieves worldwide influence. Yet, when it comes to who is allowed to thrive from black hipness, the pioneers are usually left behind as black aesthetics are converted into mainstream success—and white profit. Weaving together narrative, scholarship, and critique, Lauren Michele Jackson reveals why cultural appropriation—something that’s become embedded in our daily lives—deserves serious attention. It is a blueprint for t...
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A journalist sits in on a high school class from freshman year to senior graduation and documents the class in daily columns in the Kansas City Star.
* "This doggy diva is queen of the catwalk." -Oprah Winfrey, The Oprah Winfrey Show * Zelda is the official "spokesdog" for Delta Society Pet Partners, an international program dedicated to the human-animal healing bond. With a full line of Zelda Wisdom cards, calendars, gift kits, other licensed products, and seven previous books under her collar, Zelda now dispenses her advice on her popular weekly Dear Zelda column on www.zeldawisdom.com. At the core of Zelda's wisdom is a focus on humor and healing. As owner Carol Gardner explains, "Zelda always makes me laugh. She's proof that you don't have to be thin, rich, young, or wrinkle-free to be successful. More important, you don't have to be perfect to be happy." From peer pressure to retirement and from sibling rivalry to toxic relationships and much more, Zelda's advice allows us to laugh at ourselves and realize that in life's ups and downs, we are never alone. Tough when necessary, and tender when needed, there is a little Zelda in all of us!
"To eradicate bullying in schools, the education community must first acknowledge its existence in all forms. This timely book explores the background and myriad of issues related not just to student-on-student bullying, but all forms of threatening and victimizing behaviour found in too many schools. It will show teachers and educators how to recognize the bullying culture in their school, and decide what to do about it -- devise, implement, and enforce a policy that works. Every school should be a place where staff and students alike feel safe and secure. This indispensable guide suggests constructive ways to repair the school environment, and heal a bullying school."--Publisher's website (www.pembrokepublishers.com).
If you've ever been there,you've never forgotten. The feeling is as haunting and familiar as the smellof a junior high school locker room. It's the feeling of being undersized ... or oversized ... or klutzy ... or less than beautiful. Of being a nerd ... or a geek ... or just, somehow, different. It's knowing you are vulnerable-and someone is ready and willing to take full advantage of your weakness by making your life miserable. It's the fraternity you never wanted to join-the fellowship of the wounded spirit. And bestselling novelist Frank Peretti is a member, too. This book is the haunting true story of pain Frank Peretti never forgot but never, until recently, shared with the world. It's...
Sticks and Stones is for parents, youth leaders, and small group leaders to use in helping teens cope with the various issues relating to teasing, taunting, and harassment by: identifying key issues related to bullying, offering practical steps for teaching teens how to handle teasing and how to become an interceder for victims of teasing, and examining the spectrum of bullying from teasing and taunting to physical violence. Adults and teens will be encouraged to take a proactive role, not only in helping victims, but also in targeting the potential for bullying teens and putting an end to the destructive cycle.