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10 key actions for developing a sterling reputation and protecting your teaching career
Being an educator is a significant position of trust. Whether you are a new educator or a veteran, there are key principles to follow to develop a sterling reputation and protect your career. I have walked in your shoes as a full-time classroom teacher! I know...
A new webinar: “Parents & Caregivers’ Guide to the Kidpower Children’s Safety Comics”
As one of the senior program leaders in the Kidpower Teenpower Fullpower International community, I wanted to be part of the team that is pulling together to create more safety resources to share online during the pandemic. We know that being on stay-at-home orders...
“No forced kisses” for the holidays, the cultural change we need now
This evergreen piece is more relevant than ever. "No forced kisses" is one form of cultural change we need now. It is at the root of consent. We address these issues and more in the new book Doing Right by Our Kids: Protecting Child Safety at All Levels, featuring...
“Doing Right by Our Kids” book trailer shows our “Protecting Child Safety at All Levels” approach
The video trailer for Doing Right by Our Kids explains our model of Protecting Child Safety at All Levels. Now more than ever, people are finally ready to talk about preventing abuse and reducing bullying, harassment, assault and other kinds of...
“Do the right thing”–the power of positive practice in Kidpower and in the dojo
NPR journalist Anya Kamenetz, who interviewed me about consent education earlier this fall, has a new piece about "How Schools Can Reduce Sexual Violence" through the power of engaging with positive social norms. The idea is that many students assume that others are...
“Useful indiscretions”–In Kavanaugh, we see the system defending itself
In my last post about Brett Kavanaugh I initially had a typo: I wrote "useful indiscretions" instead of "youthful indiscretions." I though that was a strange mistake at first but now I think it pointed directly to the deeper meaning, that our sexist-authoritarian...
Healing our culture by breaking the cycle of abuse, guilt, complicity and privilege.
At this cultural moment, we are in the midst of a multi-generational struggle that will decide whether we stop a cycle of violence and abuse, or preserve this cultural system that preserves privileges for some, at a high cost to all. The system is not even good,...
What Brett Kavanaugh, Roy Moore and more tell us about white male privilege and complicity
The sexual assault allegations made against Brett Kavanaugh and Roy Moore tell us a lot about white male privilege and complicity. The following comes from a piece I wrote about Roy Moore earlier this year...there are so many echoes with the Kavanaugh sexual assault...
Kavanaugh assault allegations: stop accepting the thin veneer of denials and excuses that protects white men’s respectability
74 years ago, Recy Taylor, a 24-year old African-American woman, was brutally victimized while walking home from church in Abbeville, Alabama with two friends. A car full of 7 white teenagers pulled up, abducted Mrs. Taylor at gunpoint, and brutally raped her. This...
What’s next: Our new book “Doing Right by Our Kids” by Amy Tiemann PhD, and Irene van der Zande, Founder of Kidpower
Today is a great day, the first day that my co-author Irene van der Zande and I are in the same town with real books in hand! We are together signing the very first Advance Review Copies of Doing Right by Our Kids: Protecting Child Safety at All Levels. After years of...