In my 15th year with Operation Respect and my 50th year as an educator, I’m still thinking and educating and...
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No Time for Despair
The temptation to despair over the state of the nation, even the state of the world, is strong. I share...
Operation Respect Honors Secretary John Kerry and Senator Harris Wofford
For a bit over a year now, we’ve been using the phrase “live love, teach peace, and fight unfairness wherever...
Face the Future: A Game About the Future of Empathy
Operation Respect appreciates the critical importance of empathy. It is a skill that is taught throughout the Don’t Laugh at...
How are you feeling today?
By Edwin Figueroa, Operation Respect consultant Over the years, I have often found that, when I ask students how are...
Respect for All
Happy Pride Month! We join you in celebration and recognition of equality for all! For 10 years, Operation Respect has...
Please Stop Shaming Students Over Unpaid Lunch Bills
A recent article in the New York Times about cafeteria staff publicly lunch shaming children at school over their parent’s...
Young Artists Unite Against Bullying
More often than not, students say things a whole lot better than we do as adults. That certainly was the...
Mental Health Awareness All of the Time
By Guest Blogger Erin O’Malley, dean of student services at Bishop O’Connell High School, Arlington, Virginia Listen to the Students...
Giving Students a Voice: Peer Mediation Comes to PVHS!
With the dramatic increase in social media use by teenagers, school administrators and counselors sometimes fill their days resolving student...
Restorative Practices
Operation Respect’s mission of “creating safe, compassionate environments for children and youth” has led us down many pedagogical roads because...
Operation Respect in Palestine
Sometimes you have meetings to set up other meetings. Sometimes you have meetings that change everything. In January, through an...