The Charlotte Jewish News - January 2013 - Page 20
Joined In Education Features
Experts on Bullying
You are in for a treat on Janu
ary 15 at 7:30 PM when Lee
Hirseh, the produeer of the movie
Bully, will be speaking at Knight
Theatre.
The experienee eontinues on
the next day when there will be
speakers, workshops, round table
diseussions, and break-out ses
sions lead by nationally renowned
edueators and professionals about
eradieating bullying and raising
ehildren. This will all take plaee
at Shalom Park.
The keynote speaker, Barbara
Coloroso is an international best
selling author and for the past 38
years an internationally reeog-
nized speaker and eonsultant on
parenting, teaehing, sehool disei-
pline, positive sehool elimate,
bullying, grieving, nonviolent
eonfhet resolution, and restorative
justiee.
She has appeared on Oprah,
CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN and NPR
and has been featured in the New
York Times, Time, U.S. News &
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Her uniquely
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ing and teaehing
strategies were developed through
her years of training in soeiology,
speeial edueation, and philosophy,
as well as field-tested through
her experienees as a elassroom
teaeher, laboratory sehool instrue-
tor, university instruetor, seminar
leader, volunteer in Rwanda, and
mother of three grown ehildren.
She is the author of four inter
national bestsellers: kids are
worth it. Giving Your Child the
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ing Through Crisis—Helping
Kids in Times of Loss, Grief and
Change; The Bully, the Bullied,
and the Bystander—From Pre-
School to High School, How Par
ents and Teachers Can Help
Break the Cycle of Violence; and
Just Because It’s Not Wrong
Doesn’t Make It Right—From
Toddlers to Teens, Teaching Kids
to Think and Act Ethically. Bar
bara’s latest book is Extraordi
nary Evil; A Brief History of
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She also has two eritieally
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When Bassie Shemtov
eo-founded the Friendship
Cirele with her husband,
Levi, in 1994, her aim was
simple: to pair teenagers
and speeial needs ehil
dren, the idea being that eaeh had
mueh to learn from the other.
Eighteen years later, Shemtov,
now 40, has given rise
to an international
phenomenon, with 79
Friendship Cireles
aeross North Ameriea
and overseas in eoun-
tries sueh as Franee,
Israel, and Australia.
Bassie is eoming to
Charlotte to present
an anti-bullying eur-
rieulum for high
sehools. Detroit pub-
lie sehools are using it
already and reaping the benefits.
Media eoverage and events
have highlighted the need for bet
ter edueation and inereased
awareness on the lasting effeets
bullying has on vietims and soeial
elimates within sehools. In 2010
Friendship Cirele was in a unique
position to make a eontribution in
the field of anti-bullying. Seven-
Bassie Shemtov
teen years of experienee in re-
eruiting and edueating thousands
of teenage volunteers aeross the
globe eombined with the aeeess to
nationally reeognized experts in
the field of anti-bullying, allowed
for the development of an innova
tive anti-bullying program, titled,
“Upstander.”
Upstander is an anti-bullying
eurrieulum that is designed to
foeus on prevention and interven
tion. This is primarily aeeom-
plished through engaging
high-sehool students in a eonver-
sation about negative soeial be
haviors that lead to
bullying in their sehools
and teaehing them how
to effeetively intervene
in deteriorating soeial
situations.
Unlike most available
programing - that eon-
eentrate on the perpetra
tors or vietims in
bullying situations - Up
stander approaehes the
topie from the “By
stander’s” perspeetive, a
eategory in to whieh the vast ma
jority of students fall. These stu
dents are neither perpetrating nor
being bullied but their presenee
gives an implied aeeeptanee
whieh may allow hurtful behav
iors to eontinue.
Go to joinedin edueation.org
and purehase your tiekets. You
don’t want to miss it. ^
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Bams ‘n’ Brunch
What: Hadassah and the
LJCC’s 8th annual Mah Jongg
Marathon. You ean enter as a
group of four and play only with
your friends, or enter as a single
and move to different tables. The
rules and prizes remain the same.
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Monday-Thursday 11 AM-11 PM
Friday-Saturday 11 AM-12AM
Sunday 11AM-10PM
Where: Goreliek Hall, Levine
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When: January 20, 2013
Time: 12 noon-4:30 PM
Cost: $20 for Hadassah mem
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your eheek (sent with the eoupon
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may leave it at the J in the Hadas
sah mailbox, with Mah Jongg
Marathon written on the enve
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Yes! I want to play in the Mah Jongg Marathon
on January 20, 2013
Name
Phone
E-Mail
Level of Play (Please eheek one)
Experteneed (timed): Noviee (untimed):
Learner (untimed):
Group of four. Please seat me with:
Cheek Enelosed: $20 (Hadassah member)/$25 (non-member)
payable to Hadassah
. I promise to bring my 2012 mah jongg eard (extras will
NOT be available)
. I will bring my mah jongg set labeled with my name
(you will stay at the table with your set)
I have
1
3 eard tables Hadassah ean
borrow. I will label them with my name before Hadas
sah pieks them up.
Any questions, please eall Sandy Hoagland, 704-543-6338. Onee
again, Mary Gordan will be there selling mah jongg eards.