Bully Prevention Project Team

Prevention/Intervention
Department Student Support Services
Dekalb County School System
Working Together….

…We Can Build a

Community of Respect
 No Place for Hate
Training Objectives:
• Overview of “No Place for Hate”
• Understanding of Bullying Prevention
• Review of project benchmarks
The Need/The Impact
Academic Achievement
School Safety/Discipline
Workplace Readiness in a Global Society
Teacher/Staff Morale
 GOALS
•Enhance or create a culture of respect.
•Celebrate diversity
•Empower members of the school
community to challenge all forms of
bigotry.
 Why
®
No Place for Hate ?
•Reduce bullying, name-calling and other
expressions of bias
•Create a safer learning environment
•Promote unity and pride
•Live by the core value of respect for others.
 STEP ONE
Sign the Resolution of Respect
 Resolution of Respect
We pledge, from this day forward, to do our best to combat
prejudice and to stop those who violate the civil rights of
others. We will seek to understand those who are different.
We believe that one person can make a difference and that no
person should stand by when it comes to opposing hate. We
will speak out against prejudice and discrimination. We will
reach out to those who are victims of hate. We know that we
must all promote harmony, equality and respect. By signing
the pledge, we commit ourselves to creating a community that
is No Place for Hate®.
No Place for Hate Promise ®

• I promise to do my best to treat everyone fairly.

• I promise to do my best to be kind to everyone—
even if they are not like me.
• If I see someone being hurt or bullied, I will tell a
teacher.
• Everyone should be able to feel safe and happy in
school.
• I want our school to be No Place for Hate®.
 STEP TWO
Form a No Place for Hate Team to
Oversee Anti-Bias and Diversity
Education Activities
Consider including all parts of your community:
 Teachers/Administrators/Staff
 Parents
 Students
 Community Members
Examples of Projects
 Diversity Wall
Buford Middle School
 Other ideas for “No Place for
Hate” Projects
• “Mix it Up” day
• No Name Calling Day
• Pen Pals
• Programs for Parents
• Diversity Display
 What is Bullying?

Bullying is any ongoing physical or

Verbal mistreatment where there is:
an imbalance of power and the
victim (target) is exposed repeatedly
to negative actions on the part of one or
more other students.

(Loweu 1986, 1991 and 1993)

The average bullying behavior
lasts only 37 seconds.

Teachers notice and intervene in

only 1 out of 25 episodes.

Occurs at least 2 – 3 times per

month.

Debra Pepler, Ph.D., York University

 Bullying can be:
DIRECT
Face to face

Verbal Physical
Insults, putdowns, Shoves, pushes,
teasing, harassment hitting, assault

Psychological
Rolling eyes, dirty looks, uttering threats, extortion
 Bullying can be:
INDIRECT
Behind someone’s back

Exclusion Relational Aggression

Leaving out Telling people not to be friends
Shunning with a victim

Gossip
Lowering people’s opinion
About the victim
 What is Bullying?
It involves a power imbalance between
Bully and Victim: Number, Size, Status,
Role, Culture, Ethnicity.
 Characteristics of a bully
 High self-esteem
 May be popular
 More likely to engage in other problem
behaviors later in life, such as criminal
activity or alcohol or other drug abuse
 Characteristics of Victims
Passive
 Quiet, anxious & insecure
 Tend to “normalize” and no longer are victims upon
entering adulthood, though they may have continued
lower self-esteem and be more prone to depression

Provocative
 Reactive, clumsy, impulsive, irritating
 Attempt to fight or answer back when
attacked, but not effectively
 Often hyperactive, have difficulty
concentrating and act in ways that irritate
others
 Bullying is violence
Violence is any mean
word, look, sign, or act
that hurts a person’s
body, feelings, or
things.
71% of school
shooters had
been victims of
bullying.
 Bully Defender of the Victim
Starts the bullying and takes Dislikes the bullying and
an active part helps or tries to help the
victim
Follower/Henchman
Takes an active part, but
does not start the
bullying Possible Defender
Dislikes the bullying and
Supporter thinks he ought to help
Supports the bullying but but doesn’t
does not take an active part

Passive Supporter
(Possible Bully) Disengaged Onlooker
Likes the bullying but does not
display open support
 Enabling
is unwittingly protecting a person from the consequences
of their actions out of a sense of love, compassion, fear,
or survival instinct
Entitlement
is the belief that it is our right to use violence or threats of
violence to express feelings, meet needs, or satisfy
wants.
Tolerance
occurs when violence is accepted as the norm by adults or
young people who ignore, rationalize, or minimize incidents
of violence.
How far should things go before
bullying behavior is addressed?
Bullying behaviors should be
addressed before it interferes
with the health, academics or
learning process of a student.
 Peer Mediation is not Effective
in Situations of Bullying.
1. Bullying is not a conflict, but is abuse.
2. There is not a question of “some right” and
“some wrong” on both sides.
3. The “playing field” or balance of power, is not
level.
4. Adults need to claim responsibility.

© The Olweus Bullying Prevention Group, 2001

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 2007-2008 BENCHMARKS
1st Semester

1. Attend a two hour “No Place for Hate” training.

2. Form a committee to oversee anti-bias. activities in your school.
3. Deliver “No Place for Hate” training to the faculty of your school.
4. Facilitate the implementation of a minimum of two projects that celebrate
diversity and promote respect.
5. Submit the first semester “No Place for Hate” report form to the
Prevention/Intervention office.
 2007-2008 BENCHMARKS
2nd Semester

1. Facilitate at least two meetings of the “No Place for

Hate” school committee.
2. Facilitate the implementation of a minimum of two
additional projects that celebrate diversity and
promote respect.
3. Implement the “No Place for Hate” evaluation survey.
4. Submit the second semester “No Place for Hate”
report form to the Prevention/Intervention office.