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Unseen and sometimes silent, the shadows of bullying loom inside the partitions of colleges, casting a darkish cloud over the lives of numerous college students. The PACER Middle’s Nationwide Bullying Prevention Middle engages and empowers children to fight bullying in all its varieties. By means of the College students with Options contest, my 5^th grade college students labored collectively to lift consciousness about bullying and encourage kids to actively take part in addressing this problem. This problem amplified their voices and empowered them to encourage and assist each other, making a united entrance in opposition to bullying.

The successful entry inside the “Scholar with Options” nationwide anti-bullying competitors this yr is a video by my two 5^th grade lessons inside the Birmingham Metropolis Colleges System. The scholars wrote, filmed, and edited the video. It conjures up unity and assist, drawing from the scholars’ experiences, with the principle message being that bullying hurts and everybody issues.

College students take pleasure in expertise, so with the ability to combine expertise in an educational setting is extremely advantageous. On this occasion, we have been capable of mix social-emotional studying and expertise, that are each vital nowadays.

Bullying refers to repeated and intentional aggressive conduct, the place a number of people goal one other particular person to hurt, intimidate, or exert management over them. Bullying can take numerous varieties, together with:

Bodily bullying: This consists of bodily acts of aggression, similar to hitting, kicking, pushing, tripping, or damaging somebody’s belongings.

Dr. Yuvraj Verma, Elementary College Instructor, Birmingham Metropolis Colleges System

Dr. Yuvraj Verma is an inner-city instructor inside the Birmingham Metropolis Colleges System in Central Alabama since 2022, educating at Martha Gaskins Elementary College. Beforehand, he taught in New York from 2017-21 at PS446 Riverdale Avenue Group College, Our World Neighborhood Constitution College II, and Rising Up Inexperienced Constitution College II. Verma holds a BA from Iona College, a MAT from the Relay Graduate College of Schooling, and an EdS and EdD from William Howard Taft College.Verma serves as a Junior Board Member of the Junior Achievement of Alabama.He’s additionally an emergency division scientific aide on the Youngsters’s of Alabama Hospital, and a special-advocate for kids on the Jefferson County (Alabama) Household Courtroom.

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