The Recess Queen

I asked Michael Stanefski, school social worker, to describe his recent visit to our classroom. 

Jeanne Connelly, Jenie Cirilli-Raether and I visited every classroom in the building to talk about bullying. Our goal was to create a common definition of what bullying is (and what it is not), identify different ways bullying can happen, determine strategies for how to address bullying name people students can go to for help. To help us have that conversation we read the book The Recess Queen by Alexis O'Neill and Laura Huliska-Beith.

Our definition consists of three elements; bullying includes hurtful words or actions, is intentional, and happens more than once. The different types of bullying we discussed were physical, verbal and relational. Students were very engaged in the presentation and excited to identify people they could go to for help.


Thanks to Michael, Jeanne and Jenie for their visit.  It was a wonderful book and discussion!