Target Kid-Culture NOT Students; Stop kicking bullies Out School Board Broward County Florida!
Channel: Michael Sirbola
Date: 2012-09-29

New Classrooms Can Change Children's Brains: Scientific American http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=new-classrooms-can-change-ch... via @sciam If a madman were driving around randomly tossing acid into the faces of one out of every four of the young girls and one out of every seven young boys, leaving behind hideous life-long scars - and if this were occurring in every city in the nation, we'd call out the national guard, army, navy, air force, and everyone would sit on our front porches with a shotgun all night long, every night. SERIOUSLY! This type of hideous life-long scarring and carnage is occurring right now, the scars are EQUALLY REAL in EVERY sense of the word, there is no use of metaphor, analogy, semantics, wordplay or hype involved - but the scars are all on the inside of our children, invisible and hidden away. 

Recent positron and magnetic; PET & fMRI, images make it clear that new methods of looking at this problem, and of treatment are needed. Far bolder levels of effort and commitment are called for. It's LEGAL to Percentage-%-Poll STUDENT Groups! ILLEGAL to question individuals. 

1 in 5 KIDS VICTIMIZED by 18 DOES NOT COUNT SELF HARM - Hunger - Hurting-inside - Bullying - attempted suicide, cutting... ? 

WHAT ARE the REAL  statistics AMERICA? 

For FLORIDA? TEXAS? CALIFORNIA? KANSAS? New York? Ohio? 

Stress and hunger make learning difficult. Being Bullied & Stressed-out at School greatly predisposes children for childhood OBESITY - Enough!

PLEASE TWEET THIS TO YOUR FRIENDS - Help make this HAPPEN NATIONWIDE! 

HOW MANY HUNGRY & HURTING KIDS AMERICA? 

Anonymous Coin-toss polling enables one to ask of ones students; 
Has anyone in the room ever ???-ed, with ??? being something embarrassing or illegal. In the past, not surprisingly, many students will lie if they answer the question at all - this gives true anonymity to the student.  The principal asks the question, "Have you ever ???-ed? Yes or no," but requests that before answering it, students privately flip a coin. If the coin lands heads, the principal requests that students simply answer yes. If the coin lands tails, students are instructed to answer truthfully. Because a yes response might indicate only a coin's landing heads, people presumably would have little reason to lie.

HOW IS IT ANONYMOUS? A yes might reflect the toss of the coin or ones true experience, there's no way to tell! Half who answer "not" to "Have you ever ???'ed?" will answer "yes" although they haven't. 

HOW DOES ONE CALCULATE THE PERCENTAGES? The number who did not do ??? is double the number saying "no"- So if 20% of the population surveyed said "no, then the true fraction that did do ??? is 40%! 

IS IT FOOLPROOF? YES! The flip result is kept private and is known only to the student answering the question.

IS THIS JUST FOR SENSITIVE QUESTIONS? Absolutely Not! 
MOST class questions should be asked anonymously this way to encourage full participation & real 100% inclusion for ALL students. 

Until now we simply had no way of knowing the truth, now we know how to ask and find real answers - Dunk our heads or flip a coin for the truth - Which will it be?

1 in 5 is a CALL TO ACTION and justifies getting things done fast! "Kids on fire" should be "adults on fire" because we are crazy as loons. Our goal must be to stop more kids catching our "fire." Reactive-minded persons (people on fire) are ill-suited to go around putting other people's fires out (put one out, another will be started by the corrective-action itself). The situation isn't hopeless, we have (some remaining) free will. 1 in 5 is NOT OK! What are you going to do with YOUR free-will TODAY?

SPREAD NeuroGenesis! 
Healthy eating and lifestyles plus happy environments INCREASE the "behavioral transmission of neurogenesis!" 

Behaviorally-transmitted brains... pass the brains please...  ;)
http://archive.rcgov.org/lf20031001/LF100103-02.pdf

Stress Strangles the Mind - See Success in School from being well-fed & happy!

"The Child Left Behind In The State Of Florida," with Dr.Umar Johnson: http://youtu.be/9xgvYlhA9Ug

Classroom coin-toss polls make severity of problems visible http://bit.ly/SRTnis 

BEST MOVIE EVER ON STRESS AND BRAIN!
Flip your class to Flip the Country from Nasty to Nice:
SEE STRESS Portrait of a Killer  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYG0ZuTv5rs&feature=related  FLIP YOUR CLASS TO FLIP THE COUNTRY!  This is another way for teacher and student to connect meaningfully - and a way for kids to voice that which no one wants to hear.

100% Classroom Inclusion is now possible - All kids participate with anonymity! Find out More at http://youtu.be/MhIEFYgPQ4U

Smiley & West Consciousness Raising Poverty Tour across America: Palm Beach Sept. 2012 Part 1-of-7 http://youtu.be/KvDrJ0qsJXc 

See "War on Kids" trailer here: http://youtu.be/1kP02lxpX2E AND movie here: http://youtu.be/3rhXGDvI5pk

SPEAKER: Michael Sirbola - School Board of Broward County, Florida, September 2012