Fran Hansell Ed.D. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
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Lead with heart. Serve with purpose. Lift every voice. All students-All needs-All the time igniting positive change in education.
Being an anti-bully means choosing courage over silence, compassion over cruelty, and action over watching someone fall apart. It means stepping in when it’s easier to walk away, listening when someone feels invisible, and becoming the steady voice that tells someone they matter. We need anti-bullies now more than ever. More than one in five students reports being bullied. Cyberbullying rises every year. Nearly 14 percent of teens seriously consider suicide, and bullying remains one of the strongest predictors of suicide attempts, depression, anxiety, school avoidance, and self-harm. Behind every number is a young person carrying invisible wounds—kids who go home feeling broken, teens who stop showing up, and too many who question whether they can keep going. What Is An Anti-Bully? Why Is This So Important Right Now! An anti-bully is someone who refuses to let that pain continue. Someone who stands up, speaks out, and helps stop the harm—whether they’re a student, parent, educator, coach, or friend. How To Be An Anti-Bully exists because too many children and teens are suffering in silence, and too many adults underestimate just how deep that pain goes. This book offers the tools, language, strategies, and courage needed to change the culture around bullying and to protect the emotional well-being of every young person. We don’t need perfect people. We need present people—people willing to notice, to care, and to act. If every child, teen, and adult learned how to be an anti-bully, we could save lives, repair relationships, and build safer homes, schools, teams, and online spaces. This is the moment to step up. This is the moment to choose kindness backed by strength. This is the moment to be the one who makes it better. Everyone needs to read "How To Be An Anti-Bully: Stand Up, Speak Out & Help Stop The Harm", written by Dr. Bryan Pearlman—educator, keynote speaker, and therapist. It will be released on Amazon on December 1, 2025. This book has the power to change lives, and the message inside it has never been more urgent. More information available at: youtu.be/gp4I8AMvrkc
Special Edition of the #DaveBurgessShow as @gcouros joins me for a joint episode to chat about the 10 year anniversary of the release of The #InnovatorsMindset!! thedaveburgessshow.buzzsprout.com/1635715/episod… #dbcincbooks #tlap #leadlap
