Not Just Another Bully Prevention Workshop
Tina Meier presented to more than 100 educators and students about bully prevention methods.
During the past decade, bullying has increased in frequency and intensely. Technology has added a devastating dimension. One of the terms that are surfacing in our lexicon is bullycide. Bullycide is defined by the online Dictionary as “the act or an instance of killing oneself intentionally as a result of bullying.”
With the help of CHARACTERplus, school communities build a culture of caring; dramatically reducing bullying and increasing academic performance in schools.
On June 25th, Bully Prevention: The CHARACTERplus Way will be offered as a full day workshop at the pre-conference session to the Annual Characterplus Character Education Conference. The workshop will be presented by CHARACTERplus staff members, Tami Bopp and Robin Adkison. Participants will be provided with a tool box of strategies to create a caring community within their school.
The CHARACTERplus Way is a whole-school, whole-child comprehensive approach to impact school climate, bullying and social-emotional competencies.
Participants will walk away with a blueprint that develops a school wide culture building, effective anti-bullying policies and contracts, staff commitment, student involvement in the issues, and skills in prevention and conflict resolution.
Adkison and Bopp have a history of training hundreds of educators and students across the state of Missouri. They were joined last Monday by Tina Meier in a workshop that involved more than 100 educators along with Elementary, Middle and High School students.
Tina Meier will present a break-out session held at the conference on June 26th. Tina Meier lost her daughter, Megan Meier, to cyber-bullying in 2006. Meier knew firsthand the results and the impact bullying has on a child’s development. Therefore, she founded the Megan Meier Foundation, which is dedicated to bring awareness and prevention methods to stop the ongoing bullying in today’s society.
Bully-Prevention: The CHARACTERplusWay pre-conference together with Meier’s break-out session, provides a comprehensive approach to address bullying and cyber-bullying.
For more information, please visit www.Characterplus.org
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Liz Gibbons Character Educaiton Conference 2011
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