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Research Component
Amber Linsig
Mrs.Hensel
English IV
October 15,2015
Annotated Bibliography: Cyberbullying

"Cyberbullying." Cyberbullying. Cyber Bullying Research Center, n.d. Web. 18

Sept.2015.
"Cyberbullying." KidsHealth - the Web's Most Visited Site about Children's Health. Ed.Michelle
New. The Nemours Foundation, 01 Oct. 2014. Web. 18 Sept. 2015. Hoffman, Jan.
"Online Bullies Pull Schools Into the Fray." The New York Times. The New York Times, 27 June
2010. Web. 18 Sept. 2015."STOP Cyberbullying: What Is Cyberbullying, Exactly?" STOP
Cyberbullying: What Is Cyberbullying, Exactly? Wired Safety, n.d. Web. 18 Sept. 2015.
Cyberbullying is when you are being bullied on any type of electronic or social media.
Victims that have been cyberbullied are more likely to use alcohol and drugs, skip school,
experience in-person bullying and be unwilling to attend school. Bullies and mean girls have
been around forever, but technology now gives them a whole new platform for their action.
During the 1800s, telegraphs and telephone systems allowed bullies to communicate insulting,
harassing and threatening messages. Schools can help students not get cyberbullied by telling a

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parent, a teacher, a guardian, a counselor, a principal or a vice principal. Schools should

encourage students to tell someone if theyre getting cyberbullied. Schools should make a club or
a group for students that have kids that have been cyberbullied or bullied everywhere, students
that have been cyberbullied should join a club or a group at school and talk about it with other
people who have also been cyberbullied also. Schools should have an app made for students who
are being cyberbullied so that an adult at school or at home could do something about it, the first
step is to take it seriously (says Michelle Boykins, Direct of communications and marketing for
the National Crime Prevention Council), Its not just kids being kids, we have to make sure
cyberbullying is not a rite of passage, if we dont change the culture then we are helping young
people be victimized. You have an ally, in the school counselor, suggests (Rosemary Kelly,
director of guidance and counseling) at the Round Rock Independent District schools in Texas.
Counselors have experience teaching kids what it means to be kind, responsible, respectful, and
that translates to their behavior online. How can we help students not get cyberbullied? To help a
student not get cyberbullied is to tell an adult, a school principal, a schools superintended, or a
state department of education, the best way to address cyberbullying is to stop it before it starts.
There are a number of things school staff can do to make schools safer and prevent bullying
assess school prevention and intervention efforts around students behavior, including substances
of use and violence, you may be able to build upon them or integrate bullying prevention
strategies. Many programs help address the same protective and risk factors that bullying
programs do, asses bullying in your school determines how often bullying occurs, where it
happens, how students and adults intervene and whether your prevention efforts are working,
Engage parents and youth it is important for everyone in the community to work together to send
a unified message against bullying, launch an awareness campaign to make the objectives known

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to the school, parents and community members establish a school safety committee or task to
plan, implement and evaluate your schools bullying prevention program.
Create a mission Statement, code of conduct, school-wide rules and a bullying reporting system,
These established a climate in which bullying is not acceptable Disseminate and communicate
widely, build a safe environment, establish a school culture of acceptance, tolerance and respect.
Use staff meetings, assemblies, class and parent meetings, newsletters to families, the school
website and the student handbook to establish a positive climate at school, reinforce positive
social interactions and inclusiveness.
Educate students and school staff to build bullying prevention material into the curriculum and
school activities, train teachers and staff on the schools rules and policies, give them the skills to
intervene consistently and appropriately, activities to teach students about bullying, schools dont
always need formal programs to help students learn about bullying prevention. Schools can
incorporate the topics of bullying prevention in lessons and activities, examples of activities to
teach about bullying includes: Internet or library research about types of bullying, how to prevent
it and how kids should respond, Staff Training on bullying prevention to ensure that bullying
prevention efforts are successful, all school staff needs to be trained on what bullying is, what
schools policies and rules are and how to enforce the rules. Training may take forms of staff
meetings, one-day training sessions and teaching through modeling preferred behavior, schools
may choose any combinations of these training option based on available funding, staff
resources, and time. Training can be successful when staff are engaged in developing messages
and content and when they feel that their voices are heard, learning should be relevant to their
roles and responsibilities. Bullying can be prevented, especially when the power of a community
is brought together, a community-wide strategies can help identify and support children who are

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bullied redirect the behavior of children who bully and changes the attitudes of adults and youth,
who tolerate bullying behaviors in peer groups, schools and communities. The benefits of
working together is so bullying doesnt happen only at school, community members can use their
unique strengths and skills to prevent bullying where it occurs, youth sports group may train
coaches to prevent bullying local businesses may make t-shirts with bullying prevention slogans
for an event, after-care may read a book about bullying to kids and discuss with them hearing
anti-bullying messages from different adults in their lives can reinforce the message for kids that
bullying is unacceptable. Involve anyone who wants to learn about bullying and reducing its
impact in the community, consider involving businesses local associations, adults who worked
directly with kids, parents and youth. Identify partners such as mental health specialists, law
enforcement officers, neighborhood associations, service groups, faith-based organizations and
businesses. Assessments such as surveys can help schools determine the frequency and locations
of bullying behavior, they can also gauge the effectiveness of current prevention and intervention
efforts, knowing whats going on can help school staff select appropriate preventions and
response strategies. An assessment knows whats going on, adults underestimating the rates of
bullying because kids rarely report it and often happens when adults arent around assessing
bullying through anonymous can provide a clear picture of what is going on target efforts.
Engaging school staff can do a great deal of preventing bullying and protecting students, but they
cant do it alone, parents and youth also have a role to play in preventing bullying at schools.
Be aware of what your kids are doing online, talk with your kids about cyberbullying and other
issues regularly, know the sites your kids visit and their online activities, ask where theyre
going, what theyre doing and who theyre doing it with. Tell your kids that as a responsible
parent, you may review their online communications if you think there is a reason for concern.

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Installing parental control filtering software or monitoring your childs online behavior, but do
not rely solely on these tools.
Schools these days are confronted with complex questions on whether and how to deal
with cyberbullying, an imprecise label for online activities ranging from barrage of teasing texts
to sexually harassing group sites. The extent of the phenomenon is hard to quantify, but one in
2010 study by the Cyberbullying Research Center, an organization founded by two
criminologists who defined bullying as willful and repeated harm inflicted through phones and
computers said one in five middle school students had been affected. Affronted by cyberspaces
escalation of adolescent, viciousness, many parents are looking to schools for justice, protection,
and even revenge, but many educators feel unprepared or unwilling to be prosecutors and judges.
Schools help students with cyberbullying in many ways like confronting them, telling a parent,
an adult, or someone that can help, but keeping it to yourself isnt good its good to tell someone.
We have to make sure cyberbullying is not a rite of passage, If we dont change
the culture then we are helping young people be victimized, Knowing the sites your kids visit
and their online activities, ask where theyre going, what theyre doing and who theyre doing it
with.
Cyberbullying is a horrible thing to do so before you start to cyberbully someone
for like if they weigh more than you, shorter than most people, have hearing problems, have a
disability, are gay/bisexual think about it before you do it. We are all humans and we all have
feelings so when you cyberbully someone it hurts them, it might make you feel good but it
makes him or her feel bad, when you cyberbully someone its a horrible thing to do and you
wouldnt like it if someone did it to you so dont do it to them, think before you cyberbully
someone.

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Research Question: "Can schools help students not get cyber bullied?"
Working Thesis Statement: Schools can help students not get cyberbullied by telling a parent, a
teacher, a guardian, or a counselor.

Works Cited Page

http://cyberbullying.org/
http://kidshealth.org/teen/school_jobs/bullying/cyberbullying.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/28/style/28bully.html?_r=0
http://stopcyberbullying.org/what_is_cyberbullying_exactly.htm