I’d like to share that Nicholas Kristof, op-ed columnist for the New York Times, is sponsoring a teen essay contest about bullying and how teens think we should address it. See the details here.(photo by Hayley Beitman)
Please come and join us while we march in the Summer Celebration Parade, and we are announced as this years Hometown Heroes for our work in the community on Violence Prevention, Bully Prevention, and youth drug and alcohol abuse prevention. We are hoping as many student who can will march with us, along with family members. We are so proud of this honor.
We will meet at the sculpture park (behind the dojang) at 9:30am.
Dear MeLisa,
Hello and Congratulations!
You have been selected to represent your community as a “Hometown Hero” in the 2011 Summer Celebration Parade on July 9th, 2011. Because of your hard work and dedication to serving your community as a great advocate for youth and violence prevention, your anti-bullying curriculum available for free to schools and other organizations on the Island, and your participation on the CTC board, we’d like to honor you!
Because Mercer Island Martial Arts is alrea
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I'm very interested and seeing what happens when they think no one is watching. I am hoping it will help to further inform our training, and teaching regarding anti-bullying information. If you watch it please come back and post comments, and thoughts as I will be very interested in other's reactions as well.
Feb 15 2011, 1:16 PM ·
Amid the usual craziness of first period in the ASB room at Mount Si High School, there's a small crisis happening. Where is the "E"?
"We need to put the 'E' up," says senior Kasey Channita, and a few minutes later, ASB advisor Charlie Kinnune is reminding students to find and hang that letter.
It's the last day of PRIDE Week at Mount Si High School, but they can't finish
With the recent suicide of Phoebe Prince, a 15 year old in Mass. a new awareness of "cyber bullying" and its effects has been examined. Not only are we all concerned about the targets of this kind of bullying, but also how easily virtual bystanders can become part of the problem. I have pasted below a great resource from Family online safety institute--FOSI. (find them at fosi.org).
The Family
Online Internet Safety Contract*
An agreement
