Preventing Bullying through Holocaust Education
A number of social agencies – not just Holocaust organizations – are beginning to teach the Holocaust as a means of demonstrating what can happen if bullying is allowed to escalate into stereotyping, prejudice, racism, and worse. The DHRC is considering launching a Dayton-area anti-bullying initiative. Ideas from teachers are especially welcome. Cyber-bullying is a new and especially worrying phenomenon – through social media like Facebook, kids can now bully other kids anonymously, and even recruit their friends to help. As you probably know, suicides have already resulted. Here are a few links to similar projects around the country and resources on bullying, hate speech and other forms of intimidation faced by students today.
Resources for Teachers
The Holocaust as a Bullying Teaching Aid
School Bus bullying, a guide for teachers and parents
Teaching the Holocaust – Using the Concept of Bullying
Holocaust survivor on bullying (news article from Connecticut)
Facing History on bullying and ostracism (from a radical historians’ organization, Facing History and Ourselves)
anti-bullying programs from the Holocaust Memorial and Education Center of Florida
article on using children’s literature to address bullying, from the Anti-Defamation League
Risks of Connecting Bullying to the Holocaust, from Echoes and Reflections
a Holocaust/bullying lesson plan, aimed at first-graders
“What does bullying have to do with the Holocaust?” article from Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston
Ideas from causes.com
Children of the Holocaust: A Discussion Guide
General Bullying Resources
Words That Heal: Using Children’s Literature to Address Bullying
Identity-Based Bullying
When is Bullying a Hate Crime? (Education World)
Lesson plan from Learning to Give
When Bullying Becomes a Civil Rights Issue
Legal aspects of student conduct and discipline policies
Federal guidelines on bullying
Department of Education website on bullying and harassment
Bullying Prevention Toolkit from Georgia Department of Education
lots of resources from the Ohio Department of Education
still more from the Florida Department of Education
Bullying Education website
National Bullying Prevention Center
Upstander Alliance – “Bully Bust”
Kidpower website on how to combat bullying
Free video from Tolerance.org
Embracing Our Differences
Hate Speech, Hate Crimes and Hate Symbols
Swastikas and other hate symbols
Responding to Hate and Violence
Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr.: Hate Crimes Prevention Act
The Holocaust and Hate Crimes/Hate Speech
Tackling Hate Speech through Media Education (slideshow)
Preventing Hate Speech Online
Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Hate Map”
Childtrends website on victims of hate speech
Centers for Educational Justice & Community Engagement (UC Berkeley) – “What Is a Hate Crime?”
UNESCO on Hate Speech
“Bookmarks,” a manual for combating hate speech online through human rights education (published online by the Council of Europe) – slow download
Opinion on why hate speech should not be banned
a viewpoint from the Canadian press
How American law differs from international law on hate speech – interesting viewpoint from a Palestinian organization
rather technical legal paper on regulation of hate speech, from Duke U.
article on “Trump Talk” in the schools from Washington Post
article from the No Hate Speech Movement
Hate Speech on Campus, from ACLU
No Name-Calling Week resources from GLSEN
Understanding Disabilities
“The Present” and Living with a Disability
Equal Treatment, Equal Access: Raising Awareness about People with Disabilities and Their Struggle for Equal Rights
Department of Education website on Discrimination against People with Disabilities
National Bullying Prevention Center’s website on students with disabilities
Department of Education on bullying of disabled students
Stomp Out Bullying website on disabled students
Bullying resources for kids with cerebral palsy
Guidebook to Visual Disabilities: https://www.
Disability Resources for College Students: https://www.
Resources for Disabled Students: https://www.
Navigating Learning Disabilities and the Cost for Treatment: https://www.thesimpledollar.com/navigating-learning-disabilities-and-the-cost-for-treatment/
The “Fake News” Epidemic
Fake News and What We Can Do about It
How to teach students about fake news, lesson plan from PBS
The Classroom Where Fake News Fails, from NPR
Battling Fake News in the Classroom, from Edutopia
Fake News and What We Can Do about It, lesson plan from ADL
Students Need Our Help Detecting Fake News, from MiddleWeb
How to Spot Fake News (and Teach Kids to Be Media Savvy) from Commonsense Media
Free Speech vs. Hate Speech
The First Amendment and Our Freedoms
National Coalition against Censorship
American Bar Association on hate speech and free speech, for students
Common Sense Media – “Breaking Down Hate Speech” for grades 9-12
How hate groups and white supremacists use “free speech” arguments to promote hate speech
From the Heterodox Academy – free speech as antidote to hate speech
article from Psychology Today
Refugees and Immigrants
We Were Strangers Too: Learning about Refugees through Art
Who are the Children at Our Border?
Fighting against the discrimination of migrants and refugees around the world, from Oxfam
Without prejudice: discrimination and refugees (from Human Rights Council of Australia)
Racism
A Time for Sight: The Debate over Color Blindness and Race-Consciousness in School Integration Policy
Role Models and Stereotypes
Black Lives Matter
Microaggressions In Our Lives
Cyber-bullying and Cyber-hate
Confronting Cyberhate
Cyberbullying: Understanding and Addressing Online Cruelty
Addressing Hate Online: Countering Cyberhate with Counterspeech
Deconstructing Online Hate (from Canada)
Combating Global White Supremacy in the Digital Era (from City U. Of New York)
Genocide
The Struggle to Prevent Genocide
Genocide Education Project
Genocide Education, from Syracuse University
Redefining Genocide Education (Word doc)
Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation
The Genocide Intervention Network (GI-NET)
Islamophobia
Anti-Muslim Bigotry and Being an Ally
The ‘Muslim Ban’ and the Power of Protest
Countering Anti-Muslim Hate (from Muslim Advocates)
Countering discrimination against Muslims (from Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe)
We Can Fight Back Against Trump’s Islamophobia (The Nation, November 2016)
Freedom of Speech v. Freedom of Religion? How American Muslims Are Countering Hate and Getting It Right (from Religious Freedom Institute)
Olympian Ibtihaj Muhammad in Time magazine
Homophobia and Transgender Issues
Caitlyn Jenner and the Power of Coming Out
Understanding Homophobia/Heterosexism: and How to Be an Ally
Transgender Identity and Issues
What is Marriage Equality?
School-Based Gay-Affirmative Interventions: First Amendment and Ethical Concerns (from National Institutes of Health)
Legal Issues and Resources for LGBT College Students
LGBT Resources from Case Western Reserve U.
ADL and the LGBT Community: A Commitment to Equal Rights
LGBT Rights (from Human Rights Watch)
Experiencing hate at school (from LGBT Foundation)
Hate Crimes Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, And Transgender Individuals (from The Leadership Conference)
Resources for Transgender College Students
Local organization, GLSEN
Drug Abuse and Bullying (from addictionresource.com)
