How Pink Shirt Day Started
Pink Shirt Day started after an incident of homophobic bullying in Nova Scotia back in 2007. Two students stood up for the victim who was bullied for wearing pink, and went out to a discount store and bought 50 pink shirts for people to wear the next day. They also sent invitations to the fellow students at the school to show up wearing pink the next day. Ever since this incident, Pink Shirt Day has grown in popularity and is practiced around schools throughout Canada.
Online Teacher Resources
One in three Canadian teens have reported that they have been bullied recently. To learn more about warning signs, types of bullying, what bullying does to others and how to take action: check out https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/erase/bullying
To learn more about Pink Shirt Day visit: https://www.pinkshirtday.ca/
The mediasmarts.ca website is very helpful in providing resources for teachers to use specifically about cyberbullying. As we are all connected to internet and students are constantly using it to socialize, it is important to educate students on cyberbullying. https://mediasmarts.ca/cyberbullying/resources-teachers
"Stop a Bully" is a Canada wide antibullying program developed in 2009. It allows students to be able to report bullying at no cost of schools or students. There website also contains a large amount of free teacher resources around bullying and cyberbullying. To see a list of school resources including activities check out: http://www.stopabully.ca/teacher-resources.html
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