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When a teacher accompanies her students to see the film Bully, she asks important questions about how adults in the school building handle the issue.

Every year our school conducts what has come to be known as “The Bully Poll.” Teaching Tolerance also offers an activity to open the discussion about bullying. Our poll is an anonymous questionnaire that enables the students to answer questions openly and honestly about incidents of bullying in our school. Where does bullying most often occur? What do you think about the way in which the school handles bullying? Who is the biggest bully?

Thanks to online spaces, bullying has never been easier. Here’s how you can intervene.

Not all kids need the same interventions. Check out part three of our three-part series for bullying interventions that can help the majority of students.

Three girls take part in a common kindergarten classroom interaction—planning what they’ll play during morning recess. Recess is a time when children participate in unrestricted free play with their peers. The games to be played–and the players—are constantly on the minds of the 5- and 6-year-olds, especially during cleanup. One of the girls in the group offers the following suggestion, “How about only people wearing skirts are cats?”

Young tormentors and their victims find ways out of anger and isolation.

Anti-hate and anti-bullying policies aren’t enough in the fight against Islamophobia.

Name-calling is pervasive in our culture. According to advocacy organization Mental Health America, teens hear anti-gay slurs approximately 26 times a day. Other anti-bullying websites such as Bullying Statistics.org cite name-calling as the most common type of harassment in schools.