Full Description
A Step-by-Step Guide to Implementing a Successful ANTI-BullyING Program Bullying can be found in every school system, school, and classroom. It is destructive to the well-being of students, creates unsafe schools, and impacts learning. School personnel, parents, and others are increasingly realizing the importance of putting effective anti-bullying strategies and policies in place that will create safe, caring, and peaceful schools where all students feel a sense of belonging and acceptance. Based on Allan L. Beane's proven Bully Free7reg; Program, Bullying Prevention for Schools is a step-by-step guide to implementing an anti-bullying program in individual schools or throughout a district.
In Bullying Prevention for Schools, Dr. Beane details how to:
Implement training for school personnel and volunteers and awareness sessions for students, parents, and the community
Establish policies, rules, behavioral expectations, discipline rubrics, and response plans
Prepare intervention and prevention strategies
Develop a plan to actively include, involve, and empower students, parents, and the community
And much more
Bullying Prevention for Schools also contains a wealth of reproducible documents and forms, such as surveys, statement sheets, and intervention questionnaires.
Contents
About This Book v
Acknowledgments vii
The Author ix
Introduction 1
Step 1 Establish and Train the Bully Free Program Team and Develop the Program Time Line 4
Step 2 Provide Bully Free Awareness Training for School Personnel and Volunteers 13
Step 3 Provide a Bully Free Awareness Assembly for All Students 16
Step 4 Provide a Bully Free Awareness Presentation for Parents and the Community 19
Step 5 Develop a Program Evaluation Plan and Determine the Status of Bullying in the School 22
Step 6 Develop the Bully Free Program Mission Statement, Objectives, Slogan, and Logo 32
Step 7 Implement a Bully Free Curriculum 43
Step 8 Develop and Implement the Bully Free Program Administrative Strategies Plan and Policies 52
Step 9 Establish the Bully Free Rules and Behavioral Expectations 67
Step 10 Develop the Discipline Rubrics and Adopt Prosocial (Nonpunitive) Strategies 83
Step 11 Develop the Response Plan 93
Step 12 Identify the High-Risk Locations and Times and Develop and Implement a Coordinated and Monitored Supervision Plan and Schedule, as Well as a Reporting and Information Exchange System 109
Step 13 Train School Personnel, Volunteers, and Other Key Individuals to Adhere to Policies, Procedures, Discipline Rubrics, Prosocial Strategies, and Response Plans 128
Step 14 Conduct a Meeting with Adults and an Assembly Program for Students to Increase Awareness and Involvement 132
Step 15 Develop and Implement a Student Involvement and Empowerment Plan 142
Step 16 Develop and Implement Parent and Community Involvement and Education Plans 147
Step 17 Review and Confirm the Implementation and Completion of Program Components and Activities 154
Step 18 Readminister the Survey Instruments, Analyze Pre- and Post-Data, and Make Improvements 157
Step 19 Celebrate Success and Plan for Next Year 161
Appendix A Description of the Bully Free Program 163
Appendix B Overview of Bullying—Handouts and Fact Sheets 175
Appendix C Bully Free Survey Instruments 191
Appendix D Example Anti-Bullying Policy 211
Appendix E Bully Free Discipline Rubrics and Blank Rubric Forms 225
Appendix F The Bully Free Response Plan Forms for Students Bullying Students 269
Bibliography 283
Index 289
