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BULLY-PROOF: Be nice. Be kind. Assert your rights.

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
Bullying is never acceptable. The best way to respond to it is to stop it from happening. The Grade School Student Affairs Department of Reedley International School, supported by the whole school community, strongly condemns bullying in any form.
This year’s Grade School Anti-Bullying Campaign is called BULLY-PROOF: Be Nice, Be Kind, Assert Your Rights. It says Be Nice because Bully-Proof students know how to listen to victims. Whenever you see a classmate being bullied, you support that person. You help him cope with the situation. But you NEVER, ever, tell him to retaliate. This year’s campaign says Be Kind because bully-proof kids respect people. You celebrate diversity. You understand that we all have differences and you never bully your classmate just because he is different. This year’s campaign says Assert You Rights because bully-proof students are smart — they speak and stand-out. You walk away from the bully. You tell a teacher about the bullying.

The morning of the Anti-Bullying Campaign in Reedley International School, all Grade School students were given pins as symbol that Reedley students are bully-proof. They made a pledge as well, proudly raising their right hands as they vowed to stay bully-proof all throughout the year.

Confident that these students will stay true to their commitment, we. the teachers, are hopeful that students in other schools will be bully-proof as well.

(Photo courtesy of Mr. Gerald Diocades)

Jan Celiz-Magtoto
Grade School Student Affairs
Head Life Coach

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REEDLEY HEADMASTER GIVES TALK TO PUBLIC SCHOOL PRINCIPALS

Sunday, July 12th, 2009
Last Saturday, July 11, I was given the opportunity to speak in the Principal Empowerment Program organized by the Ateneo Center for Educational Development led by Mrs. Carmela C. Oracion (former Principal of the Ateneo de Manila High School.)
Here I am (blue polo standing, 3rd from the left) with the delegates of the Principal Empowerment Program. The Colloquium was held in the Light of the World Formation and Retreat Center in Cavite and the participants consisted of Public School Principals (both Elementary and High School levels) from Quezon City and Paranaque. I gave a talk on The Leadership of the Organization. It was good to be able to help out in my little way.
The ACED runs a program entitled the Principal Empowerment Program. After talking with Mrs. Oracion, I was given the framework of the program. It is founded by the empirical study that one of the major factors to improve any school is the training, equipping and empowering of its Principals.

So the ACED runs this 3 day Colloquium to help initiate dialogues in the Public School Principals circle. This 3 day Colloquium consists of discussions on Leadership of Self, Leadership of Others and the Leadership of the Organization. I was a speaker for the latter.

There are rougly 50-55 participants in each Colloquium batch, and I will be involved in 3 of them, this July and August. I readily jumped at the opportunity to be involved. Truly, we, who are educators in the private sector, are truly blessed; and it is important for us to see ourselves as part of THE WHOLE EDUCATION sector.

I really thank ACED and Mrs. Oracion for this opportunity, and I am looking forward to having more of Reedley involved in these efforts. Not only myself, but I see the Reedley coordinators and teachers starting conversations with their public school counterparts in the future!

Jerome Castro
Headmaster
Reedley International School

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