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We have two different school assembly programs. One focuses on bullying. The other covers Character Education.

I have to stay up to date. I have tools that scan the web for stories about these topics and send me a regular digest. I post the best ones on this blog.

Over the past month there were around 1,100 notable articles about bullying.

For character education there were only around 200 stories. Most of them were about local schools implementing character programs.  (more…)

This video is about nine minutes long, but it’s time well spent!

These are real kids and their reactions to seeing kids get bullied. Whether you agree or disagree, you can’t deny that what these kids have to say is compelling.

One comment in particular got my attention.

There was an assembly last year. Everyone was crying afterward because it was so like… Powerful… But nobody got the message.

As someone who provides anti-bullying school assemblies this grabbed my attention.
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We talk to a lot kids after our anti-bullying school assemblies. Despite all the recent media attention, bullying is still a huge problem. We see it first hand every day!

According to a recent study, Asian Americans are the most bullied group in US schools. [Link]

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We’ve received a number of inquires recently about doing school assemblies in Michigan. I figured it was time to write a blog post to make it official.

We’re the Best Kept Secret for School Assemblies in Michigan.

You can learn more about what we do over at our school assembly page.

For now though, here’s a quick overview of the three presentations we have to offer.
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We’re super excited to announce our new character education assembly for 2011! Character All Stars will teach your kids about Trustworthiness, Respect, Responsibility, Fairness, Caring, and Citizenship!
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Recently we brought our “EGGstraordinary” Anti Bullying School Assembly to St. Peter’s Elementary School in Upper Sandusky, Ohio!

The Daily Chief Union was there and took the picture above. Here’s the text of the article:
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Last week I posted about the Facebook Live Chat the White House initiated about Bullying. There was a council of experts there from the government, Facebook, and even MTV.

I took detailed notes of the entire chat. Here’s a digest of what I thought was really interesting and wanted to pass along to you!
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We’ve been discussing various types of bullying in this series. There are many different tactics bullies use. It’s limited only by the bullie’s imagination.

We’ve covered some of the most common types of bullying, but I’d like to close out the series with the one most commonly covered in the news.

Cyberbullying

This is any type of bullying that happens online. It could be via text mesages, blogs, social networking websites, instant messages, e-mails, and more.
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Hey everybody! I’m taking a short break from the series to let you know about something really important!

Today, President Obama is doing a White House Conference on Bullying Prevention.

It looks like the opening session begins at 10:35 AM EST and there’s a special “Facebook Live” chat happening at 12:20PM EST.
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We’ve been discussing various types of bullying. Today we’re discussing a very serious tactic: Threats.

This overt type of bullying is one of the scariest for the target to endure.

The bully usually threatens to use one of the other tactics we’ve already talked about.

This makes threats a unique type of bullying. The bully doesn’t have to actually use the other tactics. They control their targets with the possibility.
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