Bullying prevention for schools : a step-by-step guide to implementing a successful anti-bullying program / Allan L. Beane.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-288) and index.

Bullying 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. This book is a step-by-step guide to implementing an anti-bullying program in individual schools or throughout a district. 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; and develop a plan to actively include, involve, and empower students, parents, and the community. The book also contains reproducible documents and forms, such as surveys, statement sheets, and intervention questionnaires.--From publisher description.

Establish and train the bully free program team and develop the program time line -- Provide bully free awareness training for school personnel and volunteers -- Provide a bully free awareness assembly for all students -- Provide a bully free awareness presentation for parents and the community -- Develop a program evaluation plan and determine the status of bullying in the school -- Develop the bully free program mission statement, objectives, slogan, and logo -- Implement a bully free curriculum -- Develop and implement the bully free program administrative strategies plan and policies -- Establish the bully free rules and behavioral expectations -- Develop the discipline rubrics and adopt prosocial (nonpunitive) strategies -- Develop the response plan -- 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 -- Train school personnel, volunteers, and other key individuals to adhere to policies, procedures, discipline rubrics, prosocial strategies, and response plans.