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PACER: Bullying Prevention Interactive Web Site for KIDS!

PACER Launches Exciting, New, First-of-a Kind Bullying Prevention Web Site! Children in second through sixth grades now have an entertaining, safe way to learn how to respond to bullying. PACER's new Kids Against Bullying Web site includes a cast of 12 animated characters, celebrity videos, kid videos, Webisodes, games, contests, stories, artwork, poems, information, and much more. The site is for all children. Children with disabilities are integrated throughout the Web site.

Steps To Respect: A Bullying Prevention Program

Steps to Respect: A Bullying Prevention Program™ is a research-based, schoolwide approach to help foster a safe, caring, and respectful school environment. This self-contained, easy-to-use program is designed for schoolwide implementation, with lessons for the upper-elementary grades (3-5 or 4-6). Language arts and social-emotional learning are combined in the curriculum's literature lessons, which are based on popular children's books. Because educating school staff is critical to addressing the problem of bullying, a fully scripted staff training manual (complete with video) is included.

The Bully-Proofing Series

This series is part of the "Safe Schools" section of Sopris West. Bully-Proofing Your Elementary School, Bully-Proofing Your School, and Bully-Proofing Your Child are resources available for school personnel and parents.

The Bully Free Classroom

This book has more than 100 prevention and intervention strategies you can start using immediately to do something about students which are teased, intimidated, and hurt by other students. The author, Dr. Allan L. Beane, is a professor in the Department of Special Education at Murray State University in Kentucky. He develops bully prevention programs for schools and gives workshops on the topic. He also offers expert support to those who deal with school violence.

Bullying In Schools

This ERIC Digest describes the extent, characteristics, consequences, and perceptions of bullying as well as possible interventions.

Safe and Responsive Schools: Bullying Fact Sheet

In the "Publications" section of the Safe and Responsive Schools Web site, a series of two page fact sheets reviewing the literature on promising interventions for preventing school violence are available. Each fact sheet presents an overview of the program, data on the implementation and effectiveness of the program, and information on components that appear to be critical for its success.

Bullying at School: What We Know and What We Can Do.

By Dan Olweus, this book includes detailed information on bullying, general suggestions for reducing bullying, and a guide to help teachers and parents recognize if a child is being victimized or bullies others.

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