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Preventing Bullying in Your School
How serious is the problem in your
school?
Overview
What Research Says About Preventing Bullying
Foundational SEL Skills
Bullying Prevention
Implementing with Fidelity
Resources and Questions
How can you prevent bullying in your school?
Train leadership and all staff in bullying
prevention
Build a positive climate
Teach foundational social-emotional skills
Teach students specific bullying prevention skills
Have clear anti-bullying policies
and proceduresEngage families
72% decrease in malicious gossip
20% more staff members reporting
that their school is promoting a positive
environment
35% fewer teachers reporting fighting
as a major problem
33% less physical bullying
How Does SEL Prevent Bullying?
• Social emotional learning involves:
“the systematic development of a core set of social and emotional skills that help children more effectively handle life challenges and thrive in both their learning and their social environments.”
• Teaching SEL leads to positive effects
SEL Skills That Relate to Bullying Prevention
• Empathy
• Emotion Management
• Problem Solving
• Friendship Skills
• Assertiveness
Empathy• What is it?
• Feeling or understanding what someone else is feeling
• How does it help prevent bullying?
• Victims of Bullying and Children who Bully: Show less empathetic awareness than prosocial children • Bystanders: Empathetic concern toward peers makes them
more likely to intervene
• What is taught in the Second Step program?
• Identify feelings
• Understand feelings of others
• Perspective taking skills
• Show care and compassion to others
Emotion Regulation• What is it?
• Ability to monitor and regulate strong emotions and calm down when upset
• How does it help prevent bullying?
• Victims of Bullying: 1) More prone to bullying if lack emotion management; 2) Escalate and intensify the bullying by responding with highly emotional reactions
• Children who Bully: More likely to bully if lack emotion-management skills
• What is taught in the Second Step program?
• Identify strong feelings and situations that may bring on these emotions
• Techniques (such as belly breathing and self-talk) to manage strong feelings
Friendship Building• What is it?
• Ability to appropriately make friends
• How does it help prevent bullying?• Victims of Bullying: Have fewer friends; have at least one good friend are
less likely to be bullied by peers
• Children who Bully: May have high social status and use this status to impose their power on their victims
• Bystanders: Report fear of losing social status
• What is taught in the Second Step program?• Play fairly (sharing, taking turns, following rules)• Including others, joining a group• Treat peers respectfully
Assertiveness• What is it?
• Ability to communicate in a strong, respectful way• How does it help prevent bullying?
• Victims of Bullying: Need this skill to stand up for themselves and report bullying
• Bystanders: Need this skill to be able to stand up for others, report on behalf of others and include others
• What is taught in the Second Step program?• Practice using strong, respectful voice• Stand tall• Face the person you are speaking to
The Key to Prevention : Teach SEL
• Bullying has significant consequences for all involved
• Teaching social emotional learning skills helps with the prevention of bullying
A positive classroom climate feels…
safe
respectful
nurturing
Staff Training + Skills for Students
Committee for Children Definition of Bullying
Bullying is intentional negative behavior that is repeated and involves an imbalance of social or physical power.
Train All Staff
Teachers and Counselors
All School Staff
Principals and Program Coordinators
Principals and Program Coordinators
Topics:
Understanding the adult-student relationship
Understanding and communicating policies and procedures
Communicating with families
All School Staff
Topics:
Recognizing bullying
Responding to bullying
Reporting bullying
Making a plan
Topics:
Teaching skills to kids
Following through
Involving families
Teachers and Counselors
Teach All Lessons
K - 5• Skills for learning
• Empathy
• Emotion management
• Problem solving
• Friendship skills
Program Skills and Topics
The Bullying Prevention Unit teaches kids how to:
•Be safe and respectful
•Recognize bullying
•Report bullying
•Refuse bullying
•Be a bystander who helps stop bullying
Follow Through
Engage Families
• Letter home to families
• Clear and consistent policies and procedures
• Training staff to work with families
• Informing families about your efforts
Engaging Families
www.cfchildren.org
Thank you!
PricingSecond Step Bullying Prevention Unit
K–3 (Online Training + K–3 Lesson Notebooks)
$2,499 $2,299Ships now. Special pricing ends 4/30/14.
K–5 (Online Training + K–5 Lesson Notebooks)
$2,699 $2,449Pre-order now. Ships in April. Special pricing ends 6/30/14.
Second Step Program Bundle
Kindergarten, Grades 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 Kits
$1,829 Save $185!
