AFSA members and guests convened in San Francisco in October for the third and final AFSA Leadership Conference in the series: “Leaders in the Mirror: Embracing the Implementation of Reform.”

Our union’s third regional leadership conference of the year, held in San Francisco, proved highly successful for a number of reasons, not least of all that we were joined by administrator organizations from Los Angeles and Milwaukee that are not currently AFSA Locals.

Bullying is not new to schools. The difference between bullying now and how it was just a few years ago can be attributed to the increase of accessibility to the Internet and the affordability of new technology. With the advent and subsequent boom of social media sites and electronic communications, bullies now have multiple ways to harass their victims.