In 2010, Journey School, a public charter Waldorf school in Southern California, experienced its first-ever cyberbullying incident. Suddenly, Principal Shaheer Faltas found himself facing a whole new world! A school parent, Diana Graber (founder of CyberWise) offered to help. She'd just earned an M.A. in a new field of study, Media Psychology and Social Change, authored "New Media Literacy Education: A Developmental Approach" (JMLE), and was eager to put academic work into practice.

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Faltas encouraged Graber convert the school's weekly “Civics” classes into “Cyber Civics” and with help from top-notch academics and educational directors from around the US, this comprehensive digital literacy program was born. Today Cyber Civics is being taught to students in 4th to 8th grades in schools and homeschool settings around the world and is the topic of Graber's book "Raising Humans in a Digital World:Helping Kids Build a Healthy Relationship with Technology" (HarperCollins Leadership '19).