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It's nice to be back after a 2 month layoff. I appreciate my listeners and guarantee them an episode of Anti Bullying 101 every Wednesday and maybe more. The events of the past month have saddened me and I am left with a heavy heart. I also share my thoughts in this episode to address the need to do virtual professional development of which I am including a link to some live courses that I will be...

Sometimes it just seems unfair. I mean kids stuck at home, all day long. Communicating with their ipad or by playing an online game. Join me as I speak with my 9 year old daughter Zoe. She will let you know how she feels about learning from home, the coronavirus, and at times living in her pajamas. 

Whether you are a parent or a teacher, or a teacher who is a parent home schooling or learning from home can be a challenge and it can impact everyone's schedule. Your home becomes the school. The teacher provides the work through Google Classroom or ZOOM but, realistically the parents have to make sure that their children are completing the work. Not to mention if you are a teacher you have to pr...

COVID-19 or the coronavirus as it is called has really interfered with the lifestyle of the entire world. It has had a far reaching affect on the health, economy and the emotional state of every individual. We can only do one thing and that's take care of ourselves and do things to reduce the worry and fear that this virus has caused. In my last episode I spoke about the four dimensions of life: t...

This is the final chapter of The New 3R's In Education: Respect, Responsibility, and Relationships. In this tenth chapter we discuss the importance of keeping a balanced life and why taking care of yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually are so important. I encourage everyone to please download this book and to take a good hard look at the state of society, education, and our c...

I wrote The New 3R’s In Education: Respect, Responsibility, and Relationships 15 years ago. At the time it was difficult for teacher, parents, and administrators to buy in to this philosophy. With the events over the past many years I believe that this book has more meaning now than ever. I will be sharing chapters of this book during the next 10 episodes of Anti Bullying 101 with commentary and a...

I wrote The New 3R’s In Education: Respect, Responsibility, and Relationships 15 years ago. At the time it was difficult for teacher, parents, and administrators to buy in to this philosophy. With the events over the past many years I believe that this book has more meaning now than ever. I will be sharing chapters of this book during the next 10 episodes of Anti Bullying 101 with commentary and a...

I wrote The New 3R’s In Education: Respect, Responsibility, and Relationships 15 years ago. At the time it was difficult for teacher, parents, and administrators to buy in to this philosophy. With the events over the past many years I believe that this book has more meaning now than ever. I will be sharing chapters of this book during the next 10 episodes of Anti Bullying 101 with commentary and a...

I wrote The New 3R’s In Education: Respect, Responsibility, and Relationships 15 years ago. At the time it was difficult for teacher, parents, and administrators to buy in to this philosophy. With the events over the past many years I believe that this book has more meaning now than ever. I will be sharing chapters of this book during the next 10 episodes of Anti Bullying 101 with commentary and a...

I wrote The New 3R’s In Education: Respect, Responsibility, and Relationships 15 years ago. At the time it was difficult for teacher, parents, and administrators to buy in to this philosophy. With the events over the past many years I believe that this book has more meaning now than ever. I will be sharing chapters of this book during the next 10 episodes of Anti Bullying 101 with commentary and a...

Chapter Five/40 Years Of Small Compromises part 2 I wrote The New 3R’s In Education: Respect, Responsibility, and Relationships 15 years ago. At the time it was difficult for teacher, parents, and administrators to buy in to this philosophy. With the events over the past many years I believe that this book has more meaning now than ever. I will be sharing chapters of this book during the next 10 e...

Chapter Five/40 Years Of Small Compromises I wrote The New 3R’s In Education: Respect, Responsibility, and Relationships 15 years ago. At the time it was difficult for teacher, parents, and administrators to buy in to this philosophy. With the events over the past many years I believe that this book has more meaning now than ever. I will be sharing chapters of this book during the next 10 episodes...

Today I have the pleasure of interviewing a young lady named Phylicia Stubblefield. She is a Houston Texas native and is currently pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in community health education in California. Her experience with bullying began in the firth grade and at 31 is still recovering from post adult bullying syndrome, a condition which is the result of long term abuse. As part of this conditio...

Chapter Four/Respect and Responsibility I wrote The New 3R’s In Education: Respect, Responsibility, and Relationships 15 years ago. At the time it was difficult for teacher, parents, and administrators to buy in to this philosophy. With the events over the past many years I believe that this book has more meaning now than ever. I will be sharing chapters of this book during the next 10 episodes of...

Whatever Happened To Respect and Responsibility  I wrote The New 3R’s In Education: Respect, Responsibility, and Relationships 15 years ago. At the time it was difficult for teacher, parents, and administrators to buy in to this philosophy. With the events over the past many years I believe that this book has more meaning now than ever. I will be sharing chapters of this book during the next 10 ep...

Why The New 3R's Are So Important I wrote The New 3R’s In Education: Respect, Responsibility, and Relationships 15 years ago. At the time it was difficult for teacher, parents, and administrators to buy in to this philosophy. With the events over the past many years I believe that this book has more meaning now than ever. I will be sharing chapters of this book during the next 10 episodes of Anti...

Introduction and Chapter One I wrote The New 3R’s In Education: Respect, Responsibility, and Relationships 15 years ago. At the time it was difficult for teacher, parents, and administrators to buy in to this philosophy. With the events over the past many years I believe that this book has more meaning now than ever. I will be sharing chapters of this book during the next 10 episodes of Anti Bully...

We all know that kids need to develop resiliency and confidence. To just tell them to stand up for yourself or face your fears doesn't help. Here are 10 concrete things that kids need to do if they are being bullied. I have included a link for Strengthening The Victim Of Bullying (online course) below. Strengthening The Victims Of Bullying This Is A Re-Broadcast Of An Earlier Episode

How can we help kids to stop paying attention to negative comments and those negative thoughts that creep into their head. Listen up as Jim gives you a science lesson on The brain's  Reticular Activating System. The Bully Proof Classroom Take A Course Originally Aired May 4, 2019

Freedom of speech is not the freedom to say what you want but the wisdom to say what you ought. Always remember you can’t yell fire in Macy’s. Unless of course there’s a fire. The Bully Proof Classroom Please Donate Originally Aired: April 3, 2019

I met this compelling young man at the NJEA convention on November 8th of this year. I was so taken by his passion and commitment that I had to have him on Anti Bullying 101. Ikechukwu Onyema (EK) is a science teacher in East Orange, NJ. He is also a co-founder of MAPSO Freedom School, a non-profit committed to educational justice. Alongside his career as an educator, he is an avid writer. When yo...

What qualities would any student need if they were going live in the real world right now as adults? I’m talking about the basics, but, these behaviors are so important to the lifelong success of any individual. What are the five behaviors that I discovered? When I started to enforce the rules around these behaviors things started to change and change quickly. I discovered that everyone not only k...

Another school shooting in California. Comments by officials refer to the perpetrator as a trouble young man. Why are we missing this as professionals. We can't go on allowing kids to be rude, discourteous, and disrespectful at a young age because they will transform as they get older into troubled teens and adults. Listen to how disrespect was handled 50 years ago and why we have to begin to stop...

As a young boy I always had a fear of authority. I don’t mean the police, I mean adults other than my parents. There was always some authority figure who was correcting me in the community or in school. Since my father was the owner of a pretty popular bar in a very small town, I was well known in the town, and I knew a lot of adults. If I was involved in some stupid behavior on one side of town m...