Category: Educational solutions
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Open Letter to Leaders in Our Educational Institutions
[vc_row][vc_column][mk_fancy_title color=”#000000″ size=”16″ font_weight=”500″ font_family=”none”]Dear Presidents, Provosts, Trustees, and Administrators,[/mk_fancy_title][vc_cta h2=”You’ve Got the Power!” h2_font_container=”tag:p|font_size:30|text_align:left” h2_use_theme_fonts=”yes” h4=”As leaders in our educational institutions, wield your influence to curb the surge of hatred – join the “Never Again is Now“ pledge and emerge as pillars of transformation!” h4_font_container=”tag:p|font_size:16|text_align:left” h4_use_theme_fonts=”yes” add_button=”right” btn_title=”Accept the Never Again Peldge” btn_color=”danger” btn_size=”lg”…
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Meaningful Accountability Beyond a Lame “I’m Sorry”
Empowering others to combat bullying, harassment, and sexual assault is a cause I have been passionate about for many years now. Bullying was never something that I personally struggled with. As a kid growing up in Israel, I did not recall being bullied. However, during a visit to Israel last year, when I shared my…
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Why Transparency Leads to Accountability
Story Highlights: A lack of transparency decreases productivity and trust, makes creating smart decisions difficult, and increases liability for organizations. Through ensuring transparency in your organization, you will subsequently hold people accountable for their misconduct and will be able to resolve most problems while they are still small. Through implementing a centralized complaint system, your…
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Accomplices Betray Victims, Offenders, & Their Own Organizations
A Paradigm Shift – Practical Solution If we want everyone to be better off–victims, institutions, and offenders alike–we must take immediate action from the onset when misconduct is reported and hold offenders accountable. The accounts of Larry Nassar and Jerry Sandusky reveal the doomed futures of sexual offenders who were ‘protected for years.’ Despite many…
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Offenders Are Victims of Institutional Cover-Up
Cover Ups Deprive Offenders from Path to Recovery Betrayal comes at a steep cost not only to the victim of abuse, but to the offender as well. For the victim, the harm is obvious; he or she is cruelly denied well deserved justice and closure. For the offender, however, the institution’s betrayal is less obvious.…
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Know Your Rights: Harshly and Unfairly Graded
Education Code 49066 govern grades. Do you believe that the grade your received had a clerical or mechanical mistake, fraud, bad faith, or incompetency? You have a recourse!
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Know Your Rights: Retaliation is an OCR Violation
Discriminatory practices are often only raised and remedied when students, parents, teachers, coaches, and others can report such practices to school administrators without the fear of retaliation. Individuals should be commended when they raise concerns about compliance with the Federal civil rights laws, not punished for doing so.
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The Student Perspective: Isolated, Ashamed and Bullied
This past weekend, while campaigning at our local Einstein’s Bagels, I was approached by a Torrey Pines’ senior. The student was a registered voter and wanted to know more about my campaign message to “Empower Students.” I explained that the message translated into putting students first and attending to their needs so they can succeed—academically…
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If you can’t say something nice, say nothing at all! Really?
What can Thumper teach Trump? Did Trump read the story Bambi? I’m not sure if New Yorkers read the story of Bambi, they might have, but certainly did not adopt Thumper’s philosophy. However, San Diegans certainly read it and adopted the philosophy promoted by Thumper’s father. After twenty years in San Diego, I can understand…