Last year her student Trinh Tran won the title of seventh-grade grand champion inthe Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest the equivalent of the national spelling bee of handwriting.
Dorner says he grew up in Norwalk, California, neighborhoods with small black populations and was "the only black kid" in his classes through seventhgrade.
The Creative Steps Day Care children -- ages kindergarten through seventhgrade -- went to the Valley Swim Club in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, on June 29.
Juvonen and her team recently followed more than 1, 800 students through seventh and eighth grade to determine how physical aggression and the spreading of rumors played a part in social prominence.