Not just students bully...so do teachers, says Teaching Tolerance organization

When schools implement anti-bullying programs, the focus is usually centered on student-to-student bullying. However, students aren’t the only bullies in school. Teachers sometimes earn the label when they employ questionable disciplinary and management practices. Addressing Teacher Bullies is a presentation intended to help educators assess and reflect on their classroom management style and learn more about how inappropriate displays of teacher power can impact student learning.

Teaching Tolerance designed this presentation for teacher leaders, professional learning groups, staff development coordinators and other educators interested in engaging their colleagues around issues of teacher behavior and classroom climate.

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Kellogg Holds to Multicultural Principles

Companies can make a difference by being truly multicultural. Kellogg is one example -- here's way: The W.K. Kellogg Foundation recently sponsored a poll of more than 2,000 teachers, childcare providers, healthcare workers, social workers and law enforcement officials.

Sixty percent of respondents said that white children have many opportunities to grow up in communities that support children, while only 43 percent of respondents agreed that that holds true for Latinos and African Americans. Compared to whites, minority kids have a much harder time when it comes to getting an education, obtaining healthcare and succeeding in the job market.

From the Southern Poverty Law Center Report:

Last May, the Kellogg Foundation launched the $75 million, five-year America Healing initiative. It’s designed in part to give grants to groups (like Southern Poverty Law Center) that bridge racial gaps in education, health care, juvenile justice, and other areas. This study is a way to help focus on those issues.

“These results are alarming because the inequities within a given community are so clearly visible to the people who work with children and families,” says the study’s director, Dr. Matthew Davis, an associate professor at the University of Michigan Medical School. “Their views are absolutely essential to improving opportunities for young children at the community level.”