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Emily Saypack Professor Noonan 11/28/11

Annotated Bibliographies

Allen, Kathleen P. "A Bullying Intervention System: Reducing Risk And Creating Support For Aggressive Students." //Preventing School Failure// 54.3 (2010): 199-209. //Academic Search Complete//. Web. 29 Nov. 2011. Allen reports the bully intervention system and says: “Students at risk for involvement in conflict, aggression, and bullying may benefit from an intervention system that provides early detection and supportive behavior change. Accordingly, it may result in reduced contact with the school’s disciplinary structure and better performance in school”. This will probably be my most beneficial source because it has pictures of charts on how to directly deal with the problem in different situations. I will use this visual representation in my slides and explain the processes.

Brown, Lyn Mikel. "10 Ways to Move Beyond Bully Prevention (And Why We Should)." //Education Week// 05 Mar. 2008: 29. //Academic Search Complete//. Web. 29 Nov. 2011. This editorial displays 10 ways to go beyond just the bully prevention. Brown says that adults are responsible for creating safe places for kids to grow. She goes into detail explaining each of the ten ways. The first is to stop labeling kids, the second is to talk accurately about behavior and the third is to move beyond the individual. I will use this source by taking the information she has on t he ways to move beyond bully prevention. This will be very helpful in that I can make a slide based on the ten ways.

Good, Chris. “Integrating Bullying Prevention Into School-wide Positive Behavior Support”. (2011). Teaching Exceptional Children, Vol. 44, Issue 1, p.48-56. Article. The article shows the integration of bullying prevention programs into positive behavior support. Good suggested that bullies are good at finding and taking advantage of the vulnerabilities in the people that they bully, which may explain why the children with exceptionalities and disabilities will become bullying victims. He argues that to prevent bullying it is important for teachers and school staff members to make it their goal and inform people about steps schools can take to respond to bullying and how effective the bullying prevention program. This article will be very helpful in explaining the various ideas for bully prevention. It points out the typical steps taken and how effective these programs are. One quote that was very useful for my understanding was; “Once school teams identify bullying behavior as a problem, the most common response is to implement a standalone, anti-bullying program. Such programs commonly include holding school assemblies with speakers who highlight the harmful effects of bullying and teach students how to identify bullies, then follow up with a focus on catching such students in the act and providing increasingly severe punitive measures”. Good then goes on to say that this system has shown to be ineffective and the concerns for this typical approach. I also plan to incorporate these in one of my slides.

Lumsden, Linda. ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management, Eugene, OR. (2002). This summary article answers the following questions: What can schools do to counter-act bullying? How can peers discourage bullying? What else can be done? Lumsden says that parents can play a role in reducing bullying. "Research shows that the success of any program is 60% grounded in whether the same kinds of approaches are used at home" a written anti-bullying policy distributed to everyone in the school community can help to send the message that bullying incidents will be taken seriously. To discern the nature and extent of the bullying problem in their school, administrators can distribute surveys to students, school personnel, and parents. Once baseline data are collected, school personnel will be better able to judge whether any subsequent changes are actually making a difference. I will be able to use a lot information from this article. I found a few quotes that I would like to incorporate into our power-point presentation. The first is: "peers may actively or passively reinforce the aggressive behaviors of bullies through their attention and engagement, intervention approaches should be directed toward witnesses aswell as direct participants. Salmivall encourages the development of anti-bullyingattitudes among peers through awareness-raising, the opportunity for self-reflection andawakening feelings of responsibility, and role-playing or rehearsing new behaviors”.

Perry, Steve. "Time To Take A Stand." //Essence (Time Inc.)// 41.10 (2011): 58. //Academic// //Search Complete//. Web. 29 Nov. 2011. In this non-scholarly article Steve Perry points out especially the bullying from the African American community. He brings up the fact that we party to songs that have the most violent language directed at black people. Perry believes that we can combat bullying. And tto start this process we need to start at home. I will be able to use various quotes from this article. “First stop using violent speech in your house. Second monitor your child's e-mails and text messages from and to their friends. Kids don't need privacy; they need our supervision. The computer is not a babysitter; bad people are out there and on the Internet. Most of all, look for clues in their behavior. Have their grades started to slip? Are they more withdrawn than usual? Do they have Monday-itis? If school is a place they are afraid of, find out why and report it”. Another quote that I will use is; “If your child is being tormented, make the administrators accountable, school administrators can and must suspend and, where necessary, arrest children who torture other children”.