STEPS TO RESPECT Overview
The High Cost of Bullying
Many schools are increasingly aware of the damaging effects of bullying on children. Bullying can leave permanent scars on the confidence and self-esteem of a child.
Bullying also takes a toll on schools in the form of student absences, behavior problems, parent complaints, and classroom disruptions. Students and educators are likely to feel unsafe in an environment where bullying and violence are tolerated. In some cases, bullying even has deadly consequences.
Policies, Training, and Lessons in One Program
To address bullying effectively, educators, students, and families must work together to tackle it at the schoolwide level. The program is divided into three phases:
Phase 1: Get the Whole School on Board
Your school establishes a schoolwide framework of anti-bullying policies and procedures and determines consequences for bullying.
Phase 2: Train Staff and Parents to Handle Bullying
All school staff members are trained to recognize bullying and receive reports from students. Parents also receive materials about bullying.
Phase 3: Teach Students to Recognize, Refuse, and Report Bullying
Classroom teachers deliver the lessons in the upper elementary grades (3–5 or 4–6). Children learn and practice bullying prevention skills, including how to recognize, refuse, and report bullying, and how to make friends.
Free Program Support
Our program support specialists will answer your questions, help you work through a problem, and provide strategies for launching or evaluating the program all free of charge for the life of the program.
Program Includes:
- Comprehensive Program Guide
- Training Manual and DVD
- 11 fully scripted skill-building lessons
- Primary-grades lesson
- Classroom DVD
- Literature units with award-winning books
- 6 classroom posters and staff poster
Learn More About the Program
- Watch video previews of the program.
- Read about developmental assets.
- Learn about character education principles.
- Fill out our information form to download these helpful PDF resources:
- Review of Research
- Sample lesson
- Academic alignment chart