The 30— to minute presentation is interactive and includes opportunities for students to share their ideas and ask questions. Research has shown that OBPP is also effective in high schools with some program adaptation.
All students participate in most aspects of the program, while students identified as bullying others, or as targets of bullying, receive additional individualized interventions. The program has been recognized by the U. Departments of Justice and Education as an effective program. Rather than simply providing books, videos, and lesson plans on bullying, this program helps a school develop an extensive bullying plan with components at the school, teacher, classroom, and community levels.
The organization also helps schools find funding to implement the program. It is based on research, and includes administrative strategies, teacher strategies, lesson plans for each grade level preschool through high school , classroom meetings, student involvement, and bystander empowerment.
The program also includes parent involvement, community involvement, and all of the elements and components that must be present in effective anti-bullying programs. Verbal bullying can be just as damaging as physical bullying.
Females typically engage more in this form of bullying, though males may also use it in an attempt to dominate their victim. Kinds of verbal bullying include: name calling, insults, gossip, teasing, taunting, intimidation, and sexist or racist remarks.
Sometimes called indirect or covert bullying, this form can be more difficult to detect. This form can be the most emotionally damaging to its victims, and may cause them to experience depression and anxiety. The psychological effects of social bullying often stick around even into adulthood. This form of bullying can start with something small but can escalate quickly. Female students are more likely to engage in this type of bullying.
Cyberbullying involves using computers, phones, and other electronic devices to bully other kids, whether publicly or privately. A few examples include:. The U. Centers for Disease Control found that this type of bullying occurs the most among middle school students. Each Positive Action kit includes two free sample lessons available for download. To access a lesson, go to the product page for the kit of your choice, then click on the link in the product description, or click on the image below to discover all of our sample lessons.
Positive Action is an evidence-based program, meaning that teachers have seen tangible improvements among their students. Our curriculum has produced outcomes, including:. Compared to other anti-bullying programs, Positive Action provides the most content with more than lessons , meets the most standards, and offers the most training and support resources.
While other community anti-bullying programs like the pioneer Olweus Bullying Prevention Program OBPP come with a steep price tag, Positive Action has earned a reputation of being the most effective program for the price.
Channing Bete Company. Committee for Children. The Committee for Children seeks to foster the social and emotional development, safety, and well-being of children through education and advocacy.
Community Matters. The program was developed by Educators for Social Responsibility, in collaboration with Peter Yarrow, of Peter, Paul and Mary, who was deeply impacted by a song of the same name by Steve Seskin.
Don't Laugh At Me is a national initiative launched by Yarrow who has made it his personal mission to reduce violence in America's schools. The initiative uses music, video and well-tested instructional activities to help students recognize intolerance due to personal differences, understand that differences are positive, develop compassion for others who are different from themselves, and learn that teasing, name calling, exclusion and ridicule are hurtful to others.
Teachers are also provided strategies in helping students develop new ways for resolving conflicts positively. It may sound simple, a little too simple, but the pledge and the program seem to work, say those who have tried it. This pledge has spread to more than 40 states in the United States and five countries.
To learn more about The Hands Project, call or visit its Web site, www. The Incredible Years. The first goal is to develop comprehensive treatment programs for young children with early onset conduct problems.
The second goal is the development of cost-effective, community-based, universal prevention programs that all families and teachers of young children can use to promote social competence and to prevent children from developing conduct problems in the first place. Linking the Interests of Families and Teachers. Linking the Interests of Families and Teachers LIFT is a research-based intervention program designed to prevent the development of aggressive and antisocial behaviors in children within the elementary school setting particularly first graders and fifth graders.
LIFT is designed to decrease the likelihood of two major factors that put children at risk for subsequent antisocial behavior and delinquency:. LIFT has three main components:. To learn more about LIFT visit their website at www. The Megan Pledge. Students learn about alternatives to violence and practice what they learn through school and community service projects.
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