{"id":642240,"date":"2010-01-25T15:49:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T20:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/?p=5446"},"modified":"2010-01-25T15:49:49","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T20:49:49","slug":"weeklong-celebration-aims-to-end-bullying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/642240","title":{"rendered":"Weeklong celebration aims to end bullying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5447\" title=\"no name calling\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/media\/no-name-calling-300x196.jpg?resize=300%2C196\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today marks the start of \u201cNo name-calling week,\u201d a week of educational activities designed to end name-calling and bullying.<\/p>\n<p>Schools can participate in a variety of ways, from having assemblies to doing poster contests promoting respect and intervention when they see a fellow student being targeted.<\/p>\n<p>Lesson plans and other activities and resources are available at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonamecallingweek.org\/cgi-bin\/iowa\/home.html\">\u201cNo name-calling week\u201d website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The organization also holds a creative expression contest with a deadline of Feb. 26. The poster pictured here was last year\u2019s winner.<\/p>\n<p>The week was inspired by the book <em>The Misfits<\/em> by James Howe, a story about four students who have experienced name-calling and decide to run for student council on the platform of creating a \u201cNo Name Day\u201d at school.<\/p>\n<p>It is the seventh year for the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the start of \u201cNo name-calling week,\u201d a week of educational activities designed to end name-calling and bullying. Schools can participate in a variety of ways, from having assemblies to doing poster contests promoting respect and intervention when they see a fellow student being targeted. Lesson plans and other activities and resources are available [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2H4I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}