Lend a Hand School Bus Bullying Prevention

Source:  http://www.embracecivility.org/be-a-friend-lend-a-hand/

Special Offer – Be a Friend ~ Lend a Hand School Bus Bullying Prevention

We really want schools to try out the Be a Friend ~ Lend a Hand approach because we think that once you find out how effective a positive norms approach is, you will be very interested in the entire program. So for a time, we are providing a reduced version of this program – free of charge – for schools to use to  address school bullying problems. Try it out this Spring 2013, then you can decide if you want to use the full school program next fall.

• Be a Friend ~ Lend a Hand School Bus Bullying Prevention Plan
• School Bus Bullying Prevention Posters Demonstration in PDF. (These posters are in Pages, the Mac word processing program. They simply will not transfer effectively to Word, so you will have find a Mac to revise the posters. Nor can they be uploaded because of the file size of the graphics. So if you want the posters, you will have to email us at

When teachers are the bully's target

Read the story here: http://schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/11/when-teachers-are-the-bullys-target/

Gangs Recruiting through Facebook

Source: http://www.abc24.com/news/local/story/Memphis-Gangs-Recruiting-through-Facebook/VMbqNnGbZU-NWLTs5rN2WA.cspx

Measuring Bullying Victimization, Perpetration, and Bystander Experiences

Source: http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/pub/measuring_bullying.html

Measuring Bullying Victimization, Perpetration, and Bystander Experiences: A Compendium of Assessment Tools

Bullying, particularly among school-age children, is a major public health problem. This compendium provides researchers, prevention specialists, and health educators with tools to measure a range of bullying experiences: bully perpetration, bully victimization, bully-victim experiences, and bystander experiences. Some researchers continue to examine the risk and protective factors associated with bullying experiences. Others are working to design, implement, and evaluate bully prevention interventions aimed at reducing bully victimization and perpetration, as well as increasing prosocial bystander involvement in bullying situations. The ability to measure bullying experiences broadly and completely is crucial to the success of these activities. This compendium represents a starting point from which researchers can consider a set of psychometrically-sound measures for assessing self-reported incidence and prevalence of a variety of bullying experiences.

View, download or print Measuring Bullying Victimization, Perpetration, and Bystander Experiences: A Compendium of Assessment Tools  [PDF 21MB]

Order a hard copy

How U.S. kids are taught about cyberbullying, online safety

Children in the US are required to learn about online safety due to changes to CIPA, the bill that governs Internet Safety for kids. One classroom in San Francisco let media in to observe the lesson plan.

What Makes Teenagers Stand Up for Bullying Victims?

What Makes Teenagers Stand Up for Bullying Victims?

By Mihiri Udabage - 20th February 2013

To bully, 'bystand' or 'upstand'?  This is the question that adolescents who witness bullying behaviour are processing at the time of an incident. New research from theHarvard Graduate School of Education discovers why teens at school don't always stand up for bullying victims, even though they want to.

Read more: http://happychild.com/articles/what-makes-teenagers-stand-up-for-bullying-victims

How to Talk to Your Kids about Bullying

http://aplatformforgood.org/blog/entry/how-to-talk-to-your-kids-about-bullying