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Annual Report on School Safety--October 1998
Bully Proofing Your School, for elementary schools, is a promising comprehensive approach. Components include staff involvement in deciding how to reduce bullying; a student curriculum that uses role-playing, modeling, and class discussions; victim support that emphasizes enhancing self-esteem and social skills; an intervention for bullies that teaches anger control and empathy; and interaction with the parents of both bullies and victims. The focus is on shifting power away from bullies, not on punishing them. No evaluation data are available.
Contact: Carla Garrity, The Bully Project, 5290 East Yale Circle, Suite 207, Denver, CO 80222, 303-649-8496, Fax: 303-756-6059
The Bullying Prevention Project, for elementary and middle schools, is a promising model that includes help for school staff and parents in identifying and intervening with bullies and their victims; classroom activities (such as role playing and creative writing) that generate discussions of bullying; and schoolwide anti-bullying activities (including schoolwide reinforcement for positive behavior and sanctions for bullying). In addition, schoolwide rules against and sanctions for bullying are established. A preliminary evaluation has found promising results, and the intervention continues to be enhanced and tested.
Contact: Susan P. Limber, Project Director, Bullying Prevention Project, Institute for Families in Society, University of South Carolina, Carolina Plaza, Columbia, SC 29208, 803-737-3186, Fax: 803-737-3193
Transition Intervention Program (TIP), for grades 1-6, is a promising model for eliminating problem behavior and enhancing students' academic and social success in school. This comprehensive intervention includes a 9-week classroom experience that emphasizes self-management and academic skills, parenting classes, tracking and support when students re-enter their regular classrooms, and support and training for students' regular teachers. A study found that 76 percent of students participating in TIP had returned to regular classrooms and experienced greater academic and social success.
Contact: Sheral Schowe, Transition Intervention Program, 11454 High Mountain Drive, Sandy, UT 84092, 801-964- 7695
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