Help your students be better interveners–and get help more effectively when they need it. Check out this article on “Why and How We Help.”
Among the fascinating nuggets:
“Bystanders can also break the norm and in this way break the power of the group to ignore a victim’s pleas for help. In a large study of schoolchildren in the third to fifth grades, vulnerable children were less likely to be victimized in classrooms when other children defended them.”
