How to Stop Bullying and Social Aggression

Encourage respectful, positive social behavior in all students!Providing educators with strategies for engaging bullies, victims, and bystanders at their own level, this user-friendly resource offers fun and meaningful interactive lessons and activities that support students' safety and well-being, promote healthy social-emotional development, and improve academic achievement. This research-based book helps school districts meet the curriculum requirements of recently enacted bullying laws and includes: Step-by-step guidelines for each activitySidebars, sample scripts, and icons that highlight important informationA supply list of common classroom items for quick and easy implementationSuggestions for enhancing lessons

This book provides lesson plans and activities for promoting a positive social and emotional school.

AcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorsIntroduction1. "Same Page" Understanding of Violence, Respect, and Bullying Defining Violence What Is Bullying and Respect? Ground Rules Statistics and Studies2. Solving Problems Peacefully and Resolving Conflicts Respectfully The Five Steps Statistics and Studies3. Creating Empathy What Makes You Feel....? Emotional Statues: Recognizing Body Language Statistics and StudiesUnit Test: Chapters 1-34. Emotional Control and Anger Management Guided Visualizations and Anger Monster Poster Feeling Clouds and Charades: Expressing Feelings in Pro-Social Ways Deep Breathing and Positive Affirmations ABCD Exercise Statistics and Studies5. Teaching Assertiveness Teaching Assertive Communication Handshaking: Using the Qualities of Assertiveness Recognizing Assertive, Aggressive, and Passive Communication Styles Practicing Assertive Statements Assertiveness Role-Plays Statistics and Studies6. Responding to a Bully Bully Proofing Plan of Action Role-Playing the Bully Proofing Plan of Action Statistics and StudiesUnit Test: Chapters 4-67. The Power of Bystanders What¿s a Bystander to Do? Tattling Versus Teling, A.K.A. Ratting Versus Reporting Statistics and Studies8. Playful Teasing Versus Hurtful Taunting Defining Playful Teasing Versus Hurtful Taunting You Be the Judge Statistics and Studies9. Making Friends: Strategies to Resist Social Aggression Definition of Social Aggression Likes and Yikes: Determining Friendship Qualities Personal Boundaries Finding New Friends Statistics and StudiesUnit Test: Chapters 7-9Final Test: Chapters 1-9EpilogueResources Resource A: Problems and Conflicts to Resolve Resource B: Assertive Statements Resource C: Assertive Communication Scenarios Resource D: Lesson OutlinesReferences