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About James H Burns
Since 1977 Jim Burns has been working with students who have learning disabilities and behavioral problems. He has almost 40 years of experience working as an administrator, teacher, college instructor, and seminar leader. He is committed to helping administrators, parents, and teachers establish standards of excellence and help them build successful relationships with their staff, students, and children. He has written and designed The Bully Proof Classroom, a graduate course that is now offered at The College of New Jersey, and La Salle University in Pennsylvania in partnership with The Regional Training Center. This course has been endorsed by the NJEA. He has also written “Anti Bullying 101.” A book that provides teachers, administrators, support staff and parent’s 101 tips on how to achieve permanent help in dealing with unruly behavior and can be used as part of any anti-bullying program. In May of 2015 Jim was awarded the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by Gratz College in recognition of his almost forty years of work in student behavior management and anti bullying. He is available for on sight in-services and keynotes.
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Whether or not bullying is a problem in your classroom, you should keep anecdotal records of
students' behavior. If you have students who are or who might become potential bullies,
anecdotal records are even more important. If a student has more than one teacher, each teacher
should keep behavioral logs, and they should be compared from time-to-time. Why is this so
important? When parent meetings are conducted, a parent will usually confront the anecdotals
from one teacher, but if more than one teacher has similar anecdotal records, the information
presented will be viewed more legitimately by the parent. Often, a parent will view a negative
one-on-one conference with a teacher subjectively and believe that the teacher is picking on
his/her kid or worse yet, that the teacher really doesn't like his/her kid. As an aside, parent
meetings should always be held with more than one teacher present. If that's not possible, an
administrator or guidance counselor should be present for support. Never try to go at it alone
with the parent of a student who is a bully.
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