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Weissbourd, Richard, and Stephanie Jones. "Joining Hands Against Bullying." //Educational Leadership// 70.2 (2012): n. pag. //EBSCOhost//. Web. 28 Nov. 2012. . This article talked about different perspectives of bullying and what a student did about it. It gives ideas about different approaches to bullying and what someone should do. This article was very helpful because I was able to get a different point of view on bullying as a whole. Teachers and schools are trying to work together on preventing bullying, but it obviously is not working. This article gives different ideas of how to handle and situation if it may occur; or even preventing it to occur.

Casebeer, Cindy M. "School Bullying: Why Quick Fixes Do Not Prevent School Failure." //Preventing School Failure// 56.3 (2012): n. pag. //EBSCOhost//. Web. 24 Nov. 2012. . This article talked about what bullying is related to and why its more complicated than it seems. One doesn't know what has gone on in the bullies life or why they are doing it in the first place. This article was not as helpful as others because it did not talk a lot about prevention but bullying and the trigger point. It would of been helpful if I was doing a different topic instead of school prevention.

Morgan, Hani. "What Teachers and Schools Can Do to Control the Growing Problem of School Bullying." //Clearing House// 85.5 (2012): n. pag. //EBSCOhost//. Web. 30 Nov. 2012. . This article was really helpful. I learned that 30-80% of students report that they were victims of bullying. With such a high percentage, schools should be doing more. This article talked about what bullying is, why bullies mistreat others, and how schools and teachers are helping to prevent bullying. They are new ways a tactics that they are thinking about because it is still occurring. Teachers and students need to step up together to prevent this from going any further.

Hoglund, Wendy, Naheed E. Hosan, and Bonnie J. Leadbeater. "Using Your WITS: A 6-Year Follow-Up of a Peer Victimization Prevention Program." //School// //Psychology Review// 41.4 (2012): n. pag. //EBSCOhost//. Web. 30 Nov. 2012. . This study examined the effects of a whole-school peer victimization prevention program (WITS Primary Program). From Grades 1 to 3, on trajectories of child-reported peer victimization, help-seeking, and teacher-reported social-emotional adjustment from Grades 1 to 6. This experimental design followed 432 children in 11 program and 6 comparison public elementary schools over 6 years. There were significant and meaningful effects of the WITS Primary Program on changes in physical victimization, relational victimization, and social competence. Also, significant and small effects on physical aggression and non//-//significant effects for help seeking and internalizing during elementary school. Following the transition into middle school, the program effects faded, with the exception of some subgroups in high-risk contexts. This suggests that peer victimization prevention programming implemented in early elementary school may need to be sustained to maintain the early intervention that gains through the transition into middle school. This was a helpful article because it talked about an experiment they did in attempt to prevent bullying.

Lucas, Amy M. "Paying Attention to Ourselves: Modeling Anti-Bullying Behavior for Students." //English Journal// 101.6 (2012): n. pag. //EBSCOhost//. Web. 28 Nov. 2012. . In this article, it talks about teachers being role models for students. The author mentions Ruth Sylvester's 2011 article titled "Teacher as Bully: Knowingly or Unintentionally Harming Students" where she observed that teachers unintentionally bully students through sarcasm, rejection of late work, and opaque name calling. If teachers try to lead a bully-free teaching style, students will learn from their teachers. This article was helpful because it shows where some bullying can start; watching teachers. But that is not the whole reason why students bully. Teachers are there to help students out, so whenever there is a problem, one should be able to go to their teacher.