Eliza Byard on Professional Development and the Prevention of
Bullying Eliza Byard is the Executive Director of GLSEN.
"Effective and inclusive bullying prevention laws and policies
are a critical foundation for good response at the school level.
Part of that is because of the signal they send by specifically
including categories of bias-based bullying and harassment –
signaling to those adults who may have their own questions,
beliefs, and issues that they need to think about how to hold
those while treating every student in their care fairly and
effectively. But those laws and policies don’t live in the
school and the implementation of those policies through
effective professional development for teachers and school staff
to be part of that conversation in the hallways and in the
classrooms is absolutely critical. You have to make sure that
schools have the time and space to integrate issues of
relationship development, of community moral norms and
expectations, into the curriculum over the course of the ye