Inside: This anti bullying curriculum bundle will intentionally and specifically teach kids how to stop bullying and to not be a bully.
Teaching kids how to not be a bully and how to deal with bullies can not be taught in a day or in a week. Just like when we teach kids the alphabet, we can’t teach them about bullying once and hope they remember it long enough to apply the skills in real-life situations on the playground and in the hallways.
We have to teach them over and over again about bullying (this is why Kindness Week Doesn’t Work).
We have to give them opportunities to use the skills they learn so they feel confident when they encounter tricky social situations on the playground.
But we can’t cross our fingers and hope they know how to handle bullying behaviors.
We have to intentionally and consistently talk about bullying, how to be an upstander, and how to not become a bully when we have big emotions.
If we don’t want bullying behaviors, we can’t wait to tell kids not to bully after they’ve been a bully. The damage has been done.
Instead, we have to preemptively and intentionally teach kids what we want and don’t want them to do when it comes to interacting with their peers: friends, siblings, classmates, and teammates.
If we want to create a bully-free environment, we can’t hang posters in the hallways and on classroom doors and cross our fingers kids will read them, internalize the message, and let it guide their behaviors. Bullying will happen right below the posters.
Instead, we have to systematically and consistently teach kids that bullying behaviors are never okay, how to recognize bullying behaviors, what to do when they occur, and how to stand up for themselves and others.
If we want kind, compassionate, empathetic, helpful, thoughtful communities of children in our homes and schools where everyone feels emotionally and physically safe to be themselves, we have to teach our kids to be anti-bully before they need the skills.
And this Anti Bullying Bundle has what you need to make it a little easier. You can get it here.
We Have to Intentionally Teach Kids to Not Be Bullies
We have to intentionally teach kids to not be bullies and how to stand up to bullies because there are many negative effects of bullying:
- higher risk for depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, and poor confidence (far into adulthood.)
- higher risk of self-harm and suicide
- higher risk of post-traumatic stress disorder
- poor academic success and higher school dropout rates (not able or willing to concentrate on schoolwork, lower attendance at school)
- negative health concerns (weight loss or weight gain, loss of sleep)\
- higher risk of alcohol and drug use
- higher chance of violence and crime
- higher chance of becoming a bully themselves to gain back some control (people who bully others have all been bullied by someone else, so these kids are at a higher risk of becoming a bully themselves)
But there’s something we can do to prevent this. We can intentionally teach kids to be anti-bully. We can teach them to be upstanders rather than bystanders. And we can empower and support the victims of bullying so the cycle stops and the victim gets the mental health support they need.
To do this, we use the Anti Bullying Bundle.
Parents, you can of course use this resource as well, but you might also love our How to Bully Proof Your Kids ebook.
What’s Included in the Anti Bullying Curriculum Bundle:
There are 16 hands-on learning products in this Anti Bullying Bundle to help you intentionally teach kids:
- what bullying is and what it isn’t
- why bullying is never okay
- how to stand up for yourself
- how to stand up for others
- what to do if you see bullying behaviors
1) Bullying Fact Sheet for Educators
2) What is Bullying? Definition
3) Anti Bullying Worksheets
4)Anti Bullying Pledge
5) Month Long Bullying Curriculum (done and planned for you)
6) PowerPoint lesson on Bullying
7) Bullying and Teasing Discussion Starters
8) Bullying Role Playing Cards
9) Be an Upstander Role Playing Lines
10) Ways to Respond to Verbal Bullying
11) I Can Deal with Bullies Emergent Reader, discussion starters and writing prompts
12) I Can Deal with Bullies Early Reader, discussion starters and writing prompts
13) I Can be Mad Without Being Mean Emergent Reader, discussion starters and writing prompts
14) Anti Bullying Printable Stickers/Badges
15) ePoster: Mad Without Being Mean (print on 11 x 17 paper)
16) ePoster: Stop Means Stop (print on 11 x 17 paper)
17) ePoster: Types of Bullying Poster (print on 11 x 17 paper)
You can get the Anti Bullying Bundle here.
How to Use the Anti Bullying Bundle:
Use these bullying and social emotional learning resources early and often. They can not be used once and then checked off a list.
If we want kids to feel confident when they face a tricky social situation, then we have to make standing up to bullies feel normal and give them tons of chances to practice.
1) Bullying Fact Sheet for Educators
These 5 page informational sheets include:
- Definition of bullying
- Bullying vocabulary
- Negative facts about bullying
- Bullying statistics
- Action steps to prevent bullying in your class and school
- Types of kids who are most likely to be bullied so you know how to protect
- Types of kids who are most likely to bully others so you know who to observe
- Action steps educators must take (in order) to protect victims of bullying and prevent more bullying from occurring and knowing the federal laws and your state laws about bullying.
2) What is Bullying? Definition
Use this to help understand and then explain the 4 types of bullying to kids. We have to be clear about what is not okay with very specific information about physical, verbal, emotional and cyber bullying.
3) Anti Bullying Worksheets
There are two worksheets so kids can show what they know about the 4 kinds of bullying, one for readers and one for pre-readers.
4)Anti Bullying Pledge
Encourage kids to take this Anti-bullying Pledge to promise to themselves and to stand up against bullying.
5) Month Long Bullying Curriculum
This month-long curriculum is planned for you and has what you need to intentionally teach kids about bullying.
You can revisit the lessons often as reminders.
6) PowerPoint Lesson on Bullying
This can be used with your month long curriculum as a way to simply but clearly explain bullying behaviors to kids and why it’s not okay. It uses kid-friendly language but doesn’t sugarcoat the topic.
7) Bullying and Teasing Discussion Starters
Keep talking about bullying, bullying behaviors, and what to do when they see bullying behaviors with these bullying discussion starters. You can use these in small groups or in whole groups, as a Question of the Day, or during your Morning Meeting.
8)Bullying Role Playing Cards
Use these role playing cards to act out all the different ways kids could react when they see bullying behaviors. They need to practice BEFORE they encounter bullying behavior so they feel confident they know what to do.
9) Be an Upstander Role Playing Lines
Use these strategies to help practice different ways to stand up to bullying behavior and be an upstander rather than being a bystander and “allowing” bullying to happen near you.
10) Ways to Respond to Verbal Bullying
Teach kids these strategies and practice before they need to deal with unkind words, verbal bullying or verbal abuse so they can start to take back the “social power” bullies think they have. It’s a powerful tool to stop bullies in their tracks when we take away the big, hurt reaction.
11) I Can Deal with Bullies Emergent Reader
This emergent reader is perfect for beginning readers using simple vocabulary and sight words to go over different ways to deal with bullies and bullying behavior. It also comes with discussion starters and two writing prompts.
12) I Can Deal with Bullies Early Reader
This early reader uses more advanced language for kids who are more confident with their reading, covering how to deal with bullies more in-depth.
13) I Can be Mad Without Being Mean Emergent Reader
This emergent reader focuses on how to not show bullying behaviors while having big emotions. It does not promote not being mad. It recognizes that when we’re mad, there are behaviors that are appropriate and behaviors that are inappropriate.
This also comes with discussion starters and two writing prompts.
14) Anti Bullying Printable Stickers/Badges
Once you’ve spent a considerable time talking about bullying and feel confident your kids understand what bullying is and how to not be a bully, print out these anti-bullying badges on cardstock or on sticker paper.
15) ePoster: Mad Without Being Mean
Print this ePoster on 11 x 17 and hang it up to remind kids they get to have their big emotions and they get to be mad, but they don’t get to be mean.
16) ePoster: Stop Means Stop
Print this poster on 11 x 17 paper and hang it up to remind students that stop means stop and no means no. Alone, this poster will do very little. If you use it with anti-bullying curriculum, it will be helpful.
17) ePoster: Types of Bullying Poster
Print this on 11 x 17 paper to help kids remember what bullying behaviors are and what is not okay.
Ready to get the Anti Bullying Bundle to help prevent bullying and know how to stop it when it happens? Get it here.
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