Despite the stress we may feel over headlines of worst-case bullying scenarios, the good news is that students and adults have also begun to respond proactively and constructively.
Our PK-12 PeaceWorks series of grade-specific teacher's guides and support materials can promote genuine progress. We address several overlapping core principles cited by the Guide for Preventing and Responding to School Violence*:
• Conflict Resolution and Peer Mediation give students the core concepts they need to understand, and a calm, structured setting to work through routine conflicts that otherwise might escalate into serious bullying
• Social Skills help them apply the concepts through activities, role-play, and practice
• Cognitive Skills help them anticipate situations, assess whether certain skills are more likely to help face a bully, and when to get adult help
• Diversity Issues address many primary visible targets of bullying
• Anti-Bullying programs, specific lessons self-contained in our PeaceWorks curricula
• Programs to Reduce Isolation and Alienation and to Promote Respect, as part of the overall safe school and peaceful classroom environment, to mitigate circumstances that otherwise might foster bullying
Whichever of these you'd like to emphasize, you'll find our materials very user-friendly and easily adapted to different settings. Evaluations of our energetic, practical on-site trainings show that we can help make the program more vivid as a support for the core academic curriculum, even in schools who've used PeaceWorks for some time.
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* International Association of Chiefs of Police and the Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice. Guide for Preventing and Responding to School Violence, 2nd edition, pp. 8-10. (2007)
