Bullying

Genocides always begin in a small way, with bullying and harassment of “the Other.” This was true in the earliest days of Nazi Germany. If not confronted, bullying can grow into something far worse. Dayton Holocaust Resource Center sees campaigns against bullying – especially in our schools, and especially its newest iteration, cyber-bullying – as one way of ensuring that another Holocaust does not happen.

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The Holocaust as a Bullying Teaching Aid

School Bus bullying prevention, a guide for teachers and parents

https://www.transfinder.com/resources/school-bus-bullying-prevention

Holocaust survivor on bullying (news article from Connecticut)

http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Holocaust-survivor-begs-students-to-act-against-393466.php

Facing History on bullying and ostracism – be an Upstander! (from radical historians’ organization, Facing History and Ourselves)

https://www.facinghistory.org/topics/bullying-ostracism

anti-bullying programs from the Holocaust Memorial and Education Center of Florida

https://www.holocaustedu.org/upstanders/

article on using children’s literature to address bullying, from the Anti-Defamation League

http://www.adl.org/education/curriculum_connections/winter_2005/

a Holocaust/bullying lesson plan, aimed at first-graders

http://daytonholocaust.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/bullying_lesson.pdf

“What does bullying have to do with the Holocaust?” article from Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston

http://www.jewishboston.com/847-jcrc-holocaust-education/blogs/1730-what-does-bullying-have-to-do-with-the-holocaust

Children of the Holocaust: A Discussion Guide

https://www.adl.org/education/educator-resources/lesson-plans/children-of-the-holocaust

General Bullying Resources

Words That Heal: Using Children’s Literature to Address Bullying

https://www.adl.org/education/educator-resources/lesson-plans/words-that-heal

Identity-Based Bullying

https://www.adl.org/education/educator-resources/lesson-plans/identity-based-bullying

When is Bullying a Hate Crime? (Education World)

http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/when_is_bullying_a_hate_crime.shtml

Lesson plan from Learning to Give

https://www.learningtogive.org/units/bullying-prevention-plan/bullying-civil-rights-issue

Bullying and Early Childhood Education

https://earlychildhoodeducationdegree.org/bullying-prevention-resources/

When Bullying Becomes a Civil Rights Issue

http://www.choosehelp.com/topics/bullying/when-bullying-becomes-a-civil-rights-violation

Legal aspects of student conduct and discipline policies

http://education.findlaw.com/student-conduct-and-discipline/bullying.html

Federal guidelines on bullying

https://www.stopbullying.gov/laws/federal/

Department of Education website on bullying and harassment

https://www.stopbullying.gov/

Bullying Prevention Toolkit from Georgia Department of Education

https://www.gadoe.org/wholechild/Pages/Bullying-Prevention-Toolkit.aspx

lots of resources from the Ohio Department of Education

http://education.ohio.gov/Topics/Other-Resources/School-Safety/Safe-and-Supportive-Learning/Anti-Harassment-Intimidation-and-Bullying-Resource

still more from the Florida Department of Education

https://www.fldoe.org/safe-schools/bullying-prevention.stml

Bullying Education website

http://www.bullyingeducation.org/

National Bullying Prevention Center

http://www.pacer.org/bullying/

Upstander Alliance – “Bully Bust”

http://www.bullybust.org/upstander

Kidpower website on how to combat bullying

http://www.kidpower.org/who-we-serve/how-to-stop-bullying.html

Embracing Our Differences

http://embracingourdifferences.org/

Hate Speech, Hate Crimes and Hate Symbols

Swastikas and other hate symbols

https://www.adl.org/education/educator-resources/lesson-plans/swastikas-and-other-hate-symbols

Responding to Hate and Violence

https://www.adl.org/education/educator-resources/lesson-plans/responding-to-hate-and-violence

Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr.: Hate Crimes Prevention Act

https://www.adl.org/education/educator-resources/lesson-plans/matthew-shepard-and-james-byrd-jr

Preventing Hate Speech Online

http://outofthebox-international.org/news/preventing-hate-speech-online/

Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Hate Map”

https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map

Child Trends: A Universal Bullying Prevention Program

https://www.childtrends.org/publications/building-healthy-relationships-among-dc-youth-a-universal-bullying-prevention-program

Centers for Educational Justice & Community Engagement (UC Berkeley) – “What Is a Hate Crime?”

https://cejce.berkeley.edu/report-incident/what-hate-crime

UNESCO on Hate Speech

http://en.unesco.org/5-ways-to-counter-hate-speech

“Bookmarks,” a manual for combating hate speech online through human rights education (published online by the Council of Europe) – slow download

https://www.coe.int/en/web/no-hate-campaign/bookmarks-connexions

Opinion on why hate speech should not be banned

https://kenanmalik.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/why-hate-speech-should-not-be-banned/

a viewpoint from the Canadian press

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/want-to-protect-freedom-of-expression-strengthen-hate-speech-laws-1.2933039

rather technical legal paper on regulation of hate speech, from Duke U.

http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3116&context=dlj

article on “Trump Talk” in the schools from Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/11/06/the-frightening-effect-of-trump-talk-on-americas-schools/?utm_term=.45839163e0ec

article from the No Hate Speech Movement

https://www.coe.int/en/web/no-hate-campaign/no-hate-speech-movement

Hate Speech on Campus, from ACLU

https://www.aclu.org/documents/speech-campus

No Name-Calling Week resources from GLSEN

https://www.glsen.org/nonamecallingweek/planning-resources

Understanding Disabilities

“The Present” and Living with a Disability

https://www.adl.org/education/educator-resources/lesson-plans/the-present-and-living-with-a-disability

Equal Treatment, Equal Access: Raising Awareness about People with Disabilities and Their Struggle for Equal Rights

https://www.adl.org/education/educator-resources/lesson-plans/equal-treatment-equal-access

Department of Education website on Discrimination against People with Disabilities

https://www2.ed.gov/policy/rights/guid/ocr/disability.html

National Bullying Prevention Center’s website on students with disabilities

https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/frontpage/pro-students/issues/dis-issue08.html

Department of Education on bullying of disabled students

http://www.pacer.org/bullying/resources/students-with-disabilities/

Stomp Out Bullying website on disabled students

http://www.stompoutbullying.org/index.php/information-and-resources/parents-page/special-needs-kids-and-bullying/

Bullying resources for kids with cerebral palsy

https://www.cerebralpalsyguidance.com/cerebral-palsy/living/bullying/

Guidebook to Visual Disabilities

https://www.affordablecollegesonline.org/colleges-helping-visually-impaired-students/

Resources for Disabled Students

https://www.affordablecollegesonline.org/college-resource-center/resources-for-students-with-disabilities/

The “Fake News” Epidemic

Fake News and What We Can Do about It

https://www.adl.org/education/educator-resources/lesson-plans/fake-news-and-what-we-can-do-about-it

How to teach students about fake news, from PBS

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/real-things-teachers-can-combat-fake-news

The Classroom Where Fake News Fails, from NPR

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/12/22/505432340/the-classroom-where-fake-news-fails

Battling Fake News in the Classroom, from Edutopia

https://www.edutopia.org/article/battling-fake-news-classroom-mary-beth-hertz

Students Need Our Help Detecting Fake News, from MiddleWeb

https://www.middleweb.com/33386/students-need-our-help-detecting-fake-news/

How to Spot Fake News (and Teach Kids to Be Media Savvy) from Commonsense Media

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/blog/how-to-spot-fake-news-and-teach-kids-to-be-media-savvy

Free Speech vs. Hate Speech

The First Amendment and Our Freedoms

https://www.adl.org/education/educator-resources/lesson-plans/the-first-amendment-and-our-freedoms

National Coalition against Censorship

http://ncac.org/

Common Sense Media – Countering Hate Speech Online

https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship/lesson/countering-hate-speech-online

How hate groups and white supremacists use “free speech” arguments to promote hate speech

https://www.hate-speech.org/hate-speech-free-speech/

From the Heterodox Academy – free speech as antidote to hate speech

https://heterodoxacademy.org/blog/teaching-hate-speech-to-a-class-of-students-from-different-jurisdictions/

article from Psychology Today

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/gender-and-schooling/201612/free-speech-vs-hate-speech

Refugees and Immigrants

We Were Strangers Too: Learning about Refugees through Art

https://www.adl.org/education/educator-resources/lesson-plans/we-were-strangers-too

Who are the Children at Our Border?

https://www.adl.org/education/educator-resources/lesson-plans/who-are-the-children-at-our-border

Fighting against the discrimination of migrants and refugees around the world, from Oxfam

https://www.oxfam.org/en/rights-crisis/fighting-against-discrimination-migrants-and-refugees-around-world

Without prejudice: discrimination and refugees (from Human Rights Council of Australia)

http://www.hrca.org.au/discrim%20and%20refugees.htm

Racism

A Time for Sight: The Debate over Color Blindness and Race-Consciousness in School Integration Policy

https://www.adl.org/education/educator-resources/lesson-plans/a-time-for-sight

Role Models and Stereotypes

https://www.adl.org/education/educator-resources/lesson-plans/role-models-and-stereotypes

Black Lives Matter lesson plan from ADL

https://www.adl.org/education/educator-resources/lesson-plans/black-lives-matter

Microaggressions In Our Lives from ADL

https://www.adl.org/education/educator-resources/lesson-plans/microaggressions-in-our-lives

Cyber-bullying and Cyber-hate

Confronting Cyberhate from ADL

https://www.adl.org/education/educator-resources/lesson-plans/confronting-cyberhate

Cyberbullying: Understanding and Addressing Online Cruelty from ADL

https://www.adl.org/education/educator-resources/lesson-plans/cyberbullying

Addressing Hate Online: Countering Cyberhate with Counterspeech from ADL (also in Spanish)

https://www.adl.org/education/educator-resources/lesson-plans/addressing-hate-online

Deconstructing Online Hate (from Canada)

http://mediasmarts.ca/online-hate/deconstructing-online-hate

Combating Global White Supremacy in the Digital Era (from City U. Of New York)

http://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1216&context=gc_pubs

Genocide

The Struggle to Prevent Genocide from ADL

https://www.adl.org/education/educator-resources/lesson-plans/the-struggle-to-prevent-genocide

Genocide Education Project

https://genocideeducation.org/

Redefining Genocide Education from Genocide Watch

https://www.genocidewatch.com/

Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation

http://www.auschwitzinstitute.org/

Islamophobia

Anti-Muslim Bigotry and Being an Ally from ADL

https://www.adl.org/education/educator-resources/lesson-plans/anti-muslim-bigotry-and-being-an-ally

The ‘Muslim Ban’ and the Power of Protest from ADL

https://www.adl.org/education/educator-resources/lesson-plans/the-muslim-ban-and-the-power-of-protest

Muslim Advocates

https://muslimadvocates.org/

Countering discrimination against Muslims (from Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe)

http://www.osce.org/odihr/countering-discrimination-against-muslims

Olympian Ibtihaj Muhammad in Time magazine

http://time.com/4706627/olympic-fencer-ibtihaj-muhammad-donald-trump/

Homophobia and Transgender Issues

Caitlyn Jenner and the Power of Coming Out

https://www.adl.org/education/educator-resources/lesson-plans/caitlyn-jenner-and-the-power-of-coming-out

Understanding Homophobia/Heterosexism: and How to Be an Ally from ADL

https://www.adl.org/education/educator-resources/lesson-plans/understanding-homophobia-heterosexism

Transgender Identity and Issues from ADL

https://www.adl.org/education/educator-resources/lesson-plans/transgender-identity-and-issues

What is Marriage Equality? From ADL

https://www.adl.org/education/educator-resources/lesson-plans/what-is-marriage-equality

School-Based Gay-Affirmative Interventions: First Amendment and Ethical Concerns (from National Institutes of Health)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3780740/

Legal Issues and Resources for LGBT College Students

http://education.findlaw.com/higher-education/legal-issues-and-resources-for-lgbt-college-students.html

LGBT Resources from Case Western Reserve U.

https://case.edu/lgbt/

ADL and the LGBT Community: A Commitment to Equal Rights

https://www.adl.org/education/resources/backgrounders/adl-lgbt-community-a-commitment-to-equal-rights

LGBT Rights (from Human Rights Watch)

https://www.hrw.org/topic/lgbt-rights

LGBT Foundation of the UK – lots of resources

http://lgbt.foundation/

Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights – Fighting Hate and Bias

https://civilrights.org/value/fighting-hate-bias/#

Resources for Transgender College Students

http://www.affordablecollegesonline.org/transgender-college-student-guide/

Local organization, GLSEN

https://www.glsen.org/

Drug Abuse and Bullying (from addictionresource.com)

https://addictionresource.com/drug-abuse-and-bullying/

Sexism

The Trap of Masculinity: How Sexism Impacts Boys and Men from ADL

https://www.adl.org/education/educator-resources/lesson-plans/the-trap-of-masculinity

Gender Bias in Education

http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/papers/genderbias.html

Modern Day Sexism in Education, from TeachNology

http://www.teach-nology.com/currenttrends/equity_excellence/sexism_and_education/

Gender and Education Association website

http://www.genderandeducation.com/issues/guest-post-sexism-in-education/

Institute for Humane Education on sexism and gender identity issues

https://humaneeducation.org/resources/2021/lgbtq-and-gender-identity-issues/

Resources from Rethinking Schools

http://www.rethinkingschools.org

Homelessness

Beyond Stigma and Stereotypes: What is Homelessness? From ADL

https://www.adl.org/education/educator-resources/lesson-plans/beyond-stigma-and-stereotypes

National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth

http://www.naehcy.org/

Resources for Schools and Homeless Students (Ohio Dept. of Education)

http://education.ohio.gov/Topics/School-Improvement/Federal-Programs/Elementary-and-Secondary-Education-Act/Programs-Administered-Under-ESEA/McKinney-Vento-Resources-for-Awareness

Lesson plan for teaching about Homelessness (from Canada)

http://homelesshub.ca/education

Lots of teaching resources on homelessness

http://nationalhomeless.org/references/teaching/

National Center for Homeless Education

https://nationalhomeless.org/

“Fat-Shaming”

What is Weight Bias? From ADL

https://www.adl.org/education/educator-resources/lesson-plans/what-is-weight-bias

Bullied because you’re overweight? From the UK

https://www.familylives.org.uk/advice/bullying

What Is the Connection Between Obesity and Bullying? Discover why obese kids are bullied and why they bully others from verywell.com