I believe that lack of social skills is one of the major causes of the
increase in bullying incidents. We MUST begin to teach social skills in
school. We have sex education, why not relationships 101, we have shop
class, why not an explanation of social maps, we have home economics,
why not a class on social skill building?
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Committee for Children Steps to Respect Bullying Prevention Program. Includes information about bullying, research, and services for schools.
Kids against Bullying This is a website where students can learn many things about
bullying. It has coloring games, word games, videos by and for kids.
There is also a special section where celebrities speak about bullying.
Anti Bullying Network
The Anti Bullying Network is as its name suggests, a website devoted to fighting bullying. It includes links to several other resources that you will definately find educative on this topic. It also features websites for young people in its homepage with links some great websites where students can learn how to protect themselves from bullying.
Sit With Us app | android ( gr. 7 - 12) is a social app designed to help teens find a seat at lunch. After registering with a Facebook account or an email address, students can either search for tables welcoming other people at lunchtime or invite others to sit with them as they eat.
Become Proactive in Preventing Bullying
What is the role of young people and adults in preventing and responding to incidents of bullying and ostracism? How can young people and adults make better choices to help create and sustain schools that are safe for everyone? Bullying: A Case Study in Ostracism explores issues of bullying and ostracism by looking at a particular incident that occurred at a middle school, primarily involving a group of girls. What started as a small event quickly turned into a serious situation. Explore the case study: read a description of the incident, read/listen to the voices of the girls and one of their teachers, participate in online discussions about the incident and view video clips of experts discussing the issues.
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Bullying Role-Play Cards Establish your classroom as an anti-bullying zone from day one! During the first week of school, let your students actually practice how to recognize and respond to bullying with these printable role-play cards. Each card includes a scenario for students to act out and make a choice about how to respond.
The Be ONE Project takes a novel approach to middle school bullying by addressing the underlying problem: the school culture that allows bullying to thrive. The Be ONE Project challenges youth not only to be kind but also to be positive role models who hold others accountable to be kind, thereby harnessing the power of peer pressure toward inclusiveness rather than exclusiveness. The Be ONE Project’s core program is ONE Day, a community-building, peer-to-peer antibullying program for students in grades 5–8.
Federal Stop Bullying Initiative
Facing History and Ourselves
This respected SEL program now includes a bullying component and teacher guide for the…
Making a difference in bullying
This comprehensive guide for schools has four main sections- What is bullying, solutions to bullying,…
Opheliaproject focuses on relational aggression
Preventing classroom bullying: What teachers can do
This free booklet provides educators with concrete steps classroom teachers can take to educate students…
Innocent bystanders?
This article discusses research on bystander behavior during bullying incidents, provides insights into why certainStop Bullying Now by Stan Davis which includes strategies for stopping mean bewhavior
Peaceful School Bus Behavior on school buses
Dandelion $ ‘Dandelion is a moving interactive App about bullying and the power of imagination. This magical interactive story came about when the author's son experienced bullying.’
Making your school safe: Strategies to protect children and promote learning
This book in the Teachers College Press series on social and emotional learning focuses on…
Bullying, victimization, and peer harassment: A handbook of prevention and intervention
This thorough review of a wide spectrum of innovative, evidence-based practices targets the complex problems…