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This guide will provide you with information about aggression and its development during childhood and adolescence. It introduces bullying as a subset of aggressive behavior, highlights research on the nature and extent of bullying in schools and outlines some of the characteristics of children involved in bullying. It has many helpfully suggestions to recognize common signs of bullying that parents and practitioners need to be aware of and offers interventions and resources for those dealing with this behavior.

What is the root cause of aggressive behavior, and why is it so widespread today?  Understand why some people adopt belligerent attitudes that lead them to inappropriate confrontations.   This DVD is great for a classroom discussion on aggressive behavior and bullying.

Runtime: 18 mins

Bobby's Story is about courage and the power inside all of us.  The story is based on unpleasant events that occurred many years ago in the author's own life.  The character, Bobby, is constantly reminded of his grandfather's powerful words of life, Wrong is wrong - no matter how many people do it, and that it only takes one person to speak out for what is right - The Power of One!"   After Bobby's parents lose everything, including their jobs, their home, and their dreams, his family is forced to leave all their family and friends behind.  They move to the city with hopes of finding jobs and starting over.  For Bobby, the struggle is about acceptance, not only from his new friends, but his new life.  He needs to reach inside himself to find the inner strength necessary to make new friends, live in poverty, and stand up to the red-haired bully.

Pages:  224

Bobby Kent was a steroid-pumped, 20-year-old bully who liked to dominate his peers in their comfortable, middle-class Ft. Lauderdale beach community through psychological, physical and sexual abuse. One summer night in 1993, Bobby was lured to the edge of the Florida everglades with a promise of sex and drugs, but was never seen alive again.  The tormentor had become the victim in a bizarre and brutal act of vengeance carried out with ruthless, cold-blooded efficiency by seven of his high school acquaintances, including his lifelong best friend, and instigated by one overweight, under-loved teenager who believed her life would be perfect if Bobby Kent was dead.  This book is a riveting story of adolescent rage and bloody revenge, and all the more harrowing and horrific because it's true.

Pages:  304

Brian Tacang's first novel takes readers on a wild ride through the fantastic town of Masonville, where eccentric scientists and burly librarians, circus performers and bullies abound, and where science and miracles sometimes collide.  As an inventor, Millicent knows this formula by heart.  Unfortunately, a series of failures -- like the Ever-Juicy Gum Enhancer Pellet and the Retractable Ponytail Holder -- have left her a few beakers short on faith.  Millicent's best friends in The Wunderkind Club are ready to give up on her inventions, but Bully-Be-Gone, her latest creation, should be the breakthrough Millicent needs.  After all, her formula for thwarting the enemies of overachievers everywhere is foolproof.  Before long, Millicent has a disaster of monumental proportions on her hands.  With only days to concoct an antidote, her friendships -- and her future as an inventor -- hang in the balance.

Pages:  224

Based on The Bully Free Classroom by Allan L. Beane, Ph.D., this card game plays like Crazy Eights, so most kids will have some familiarity with the process.  The cards are divided into four categories: "What Would You Do If", Self-Esteem Boosters, Ways to Stay Bully Free, and "Why Should You Do This?"  Kids get rid of cards (and move closer to being "out" or "bully free") by offering reasonable suggestions and responses to questions.  Meant to be played with adult supervision (a teacher, counselor, or youth worker familiar with anti-bullying themes), the game includes an insert with rules and basic anti-bullying concepts.

Pack:  60 Cards and 12 Page Fold-out Insert

Every day, in schools Bullying doesn't stop at the grade school playground.  Middle school students can be targets and perpetrators of verbal, emotional, and physical bullying as well.  This important new video explores unique bullying issues that middle school (grades 6 to 8) students experience-as told in their own words.  Real kids (not actors) discuss real-life issues and situations, including: What is bullying?  Why do kids bully?  What if it happens to you?
Included with this DVD is a teacher's guide that contains information designed to assist you with introducing, following-up and reinforcing the material presented.

Runtime: 11 mins

Bullying at School is the authoritative book on bullying/victim problems in school and on effective ways of counteracting and preventing such problems.  On the basis of the author's large-scale studies and other research, it is known that bullying is a problem in all societies.  More than 15 percent of the school population in primary and secondary or junior high schools are involved, either as bullies victims.  This book presents the facts about Bullying and its causes and consequences in a concise manner with straightforward language.

Pages:  152

Every day, in schools and in other institutions, aggressive, harassing acts are carried out with frightening regularity.  The oppression and intimidation caused by bullies can make it almost impossible to concentrate upon an education or a career.  Cycles of violence can be broken by confronting and eradicating environments in which bullies thrive.  By using education, empowerment, commitment, and unity, socially maladjusted individuals can be convinced to stop their abuse.

Runtime: 26 mins

Bullying is an issue in all areas of our community.  It can lead to a considerable degree of absenteeism and has the potential to develop into more serious problems such as sexual, physical and emotional abuse.  This innovative, new series presents teachers with a conflict-resolution approach to identifying, coping with and preventing this improper behavior using reproducible activities.  In addition to these activities, the book contains extensive teacher notes, advice for working with parents and web links.

Pages:  72

This book is a comparative account of the major intervention projects against school bullying that have been carried out by educationalists and researchers since the 1980s, across Europe, North America and Australia.  Bullying in schools has become an international focus for concern.  It can adversely affect pupils and in extreme cases lead to suicide.  Schools can take action to reduce bullying and several programs are available but do they work?  In fact, success rates have been very varied.  This book surveys thirteen studies and eleven countries.  Working on the principle that we can learn from both successes and failures, it examines the processes as well as the outcomes, and critically assesses the likely reasons for success or failure.  With contributions from leading researchers in the field, Bullying in Schools is an important addition to the debate on tackling school bullying, and attracts a broad audience, including educationalists, psychologists, researchers, policy makers and school management staff.

Pages:  356

This book contains a School-Wide approach to girl bullying. Counteracting girl bullying first requires an understanding of what it is and to become aware of how it can negatively impact the lives of young girls.  Bullying in The Girl's World provides information to motivate change and the skills and strategies to make it happen.

Pages:  214

Grace Matthews is funny and talented, and everyone's friend.  But, when the girls in bunk 3C pair off, Grace realizes that she's the only one without a best friend.  Soon, Grace starts hanging out with Kerri, a girl from a rival bunk, who starts bullying Grace and those around her.  Will Grace have the courage to stand up for herself even if it means standing on her own?

Pages:  160

This practical series will help students to deal with all the non-academic issues that can affect academic success.  Based on the latest research and classroom studies, these books provide motivating and appropriate reproducible activities in a ready-to-use format that teachers will appreciate.  Each topic area is treated with an activity that includes lesson with answers, discussion questions, additional activities, student work page and useful background activity.  The teacher's section includes a method overview, setting up the class environment, collaborative learning, differentiating instruction, assessment indicators and assessment forms.  Topics covered in this book include:  Roles, responsibility, goals, stress, stereotypes, tolerance, bullying, conflict resolution, peer pressure and more.

Pages:  104

This book is aimed at academics, educators, and government policy makers who are concerned about addressing emerging cyber-bullying and anti-authority student expressions through the use of various technologies, including but not limited to cell phone and the Internet. There is a current lack of policy relating to the extent of educators' legal responsibilities to intervene when such events takes place outside of school hours and school grounds, using home computers and personal cell phones. Students, teachers, and school officials are often the targets of these events. The author analyzes government and school responses by reviewing positive paradigms. She reviews a range of legal frameworks and judicial decisions from constitutional, human rights, child protection, tort law perspectives, and redirects attention to legally substantive and pluralistic approaches that can help schools balance student free expression, supervision, safety, and learning.

Pages:  296

Cyber bullying has become more prevalent through the use of e-mail, instant messages, chat rooms, and other digital messaging systems, and brings many unique challenges.  This book provides the most current and essential information on the nature and prevalence of this epidemic, providing educators, parents, psychologists and policy-makers with critical prevention techniques and strategies for effectively addressing electronic bullying.

Pages:  228

Cyber Bullying is defined as the willful and repeated act of harming others electronically (through email, instant messaging, Web sites, chat rooms, social networking sites, cell phones and other electronic means).  It is a relatively new issue, but has clear consequences that need to be addressed.  This is why Hazelden has published Cyber Bullying: A Prevention Curriculum for Grades 6-12.  The consequences of cyber bullying are far-reaching, causing some victims to experience low self-esteem, poor academic achievement, difficulty making friends, loneliness, depression, and suicidal thoughts and tendencies.  Some reports of suicide following incidents of cyber bullying have been in the news.  Around one-third of all teens using the internet have been bullied, and have found that bullying in any form is tied to a host of other behavior problems, including substance abuse.  Education and prevention are keys to halting cyber bullying.  The Hazelden cyber bullying curriculum is authored by nationally renowned experts in the field of bullying prevention.

Pages:  146

Don't Feed the Bully is a fictional detective story aimed at ages 10-14 Anyone who can read will love this funny and meaningful story.  Hannibal Greatneck III, detective, sixth grade student, or Handy to his friends, walks into William B. Travis elementary and finds a cage in the middle of the classroom.  The school has dealt with its bully problem by handing over all the control to another bully. Handy must find the clues, outwit the villains, and give the control of William B. Travis back to the students and faculty.  The story is a funny one with hilarious yet serious undertones, but with great purpose.

Pages:  128

This book is a resource guide created to provide school counselors, educators, administrators and parents with the necessary information and tools to implement a holistic approach to cyber-bullying.  Some of the key features of this book include:  Cyber-bullying terminology and issues, Policies and procedures information, and Assessment tools of the cyber bully parties and situation.  This is provided in easy to access text material and resource information.

Pages:  120

On a cold day in January, Sixteen-year-old Jonathan will go to his middle school knowing one thing for sure-he is going to be verbally and physically bullied at least one time during the day.  However, today would not be the same.  Jonathan had something totally unexpected to share with his class, and it will be the day that his tormentors and classmates never forget.  Neither will those who watch this video.  This will be the most powerful and unusual anti-bullying film your students will ever see, and it will definitely spark a meaningful class discussion.

Runtime:  8 mins

At last, a manual that can be used by teachers to help children avoid being teased by bullies.  This book is a complete guide that contains reproducible activities, and also contains an emotional story about a young fifth grade student that becomes the target of girl bullies.  Readers travel with her on this uplifting journey as she deals with both emotional and physical attacks.  This program helps bully victims to tap into their own inner strengths to learn how to become more self confident and gain self respect.  They learn that positive self-regard is the key to avoid being a bully target.

Pages:  183

This book is for all of us who always felt outside the norm in school.  Many of us were not necessarily Nerds or Intellectuals, but none the less, were never very popular in High School.  Maybe we were different for various reasons, but we new our talents would eventually serve as a foundation for success.  We, the Wusses, are a diverse group: Doctors, Lawyers, Engineers, Bankers, Artists, Comedians, and many others who learned early how to thrive in adversity and can now look back and laugh.

Tracy Ludwig addresses the topic of teasing.  D.J. is getting tired of Vince's mean-spirited comments at school.  Vince knows which buttons to push, by using the "I was just kidding" defense.  Unsure how to handle the situation, D.J. talks with his father and his teacher and learns a few strategies to help deal with the putdowns.  More importantly, he realizes that he isn't the problem and that he hasn't done anything to deserve Vince's taunts.  This frank and believable story will help youngsters to distinguish between good-natured teasing and the destructive variety, empowering them by providing options they can use when faced with bullying.

Pages:  32

This book provides 101 1/2 resources, strategies, insights, and reproducible worksheets for professionals who work with girls that are Relationally Aggressive (RA), and the young people who have been victimized by this type of bullying.  The strategies in this book were created to increase awareness of Relational Aggression (RA), encourage empathy and tolerance, and improve self-control and coping skills.  The underlying causes of RA are explored, particularly in girls.  Other forms of RA are explored including cyber-bullying and other types of electronic bullying. Included are reproducible lessons and activities for individuals, small groups, classrooms, and entire schools.

Pages:  128

Why is it so tough to be a girl?  Whether they're teasing a girl because of how she looks, making up rumors to torment others, or launching an online campaign to destroy their target, girls can be just plain ruthless.  This unique book has helped end the cycle of meanness for tens of thousands of girls. Mean Girls is a call to spiritual strength.  It calls girls to face the beasts in their lives head on.  In short, it's the answer girls need for the problem they never thought could go away.  This completely revised edition of Mean Girls will reach Junior High and high schoolers with the help and advice they crave.

Pages:  204

Are you still living with Mean?  Take a closer look inside your heart and soul in this spiritually challenging and uplifting sequel to Mean Girls.  In this companion volume, popular author Hayley DiMarco urges girls to take a closer look at what God has to say about the Mean Girls they encounter every day, including the one in the mirror.  It's crammed with biblical insight, guided questions, and prayer tips, Mean Girls Gone leads girls through one of the toughest challenges in their teen lives and shows them that the strength to overcome is not found in some act of revenge but in the God's Word.

Pages:  148

They don't know one another well, and don't speak to one another at all, but one day at school, the paths of four teens will cross in ways they never imagined.  There's Tisha, who doesn't feel she fits in with anyone; Ryan, the football jock who rules the hallways while losing control of his life; Kurt, the "freak" who tries desperately to escape bullying; and Floater, who uses his connections to gain dangerous power.  On this day, teasing, racism, loneliness, and secrets bring each of them to the breaking point.  Now they must help each other prevent a tragedy.  The voices of these four teens weave together in prose-poetry to create a powerful story.

Pages:  186

In this student workbook, your sixth and seventh grade students will find information and activities to help them explore and remember the key concepts of the sessions.  They will find out what bullying is, why it happens, and what to do about it.  They'll find questions and projects to help them figure out their feelings, find out what other kids think, and learn how to get support without causing trouble.  This is part of the No-Bullying Program - Preventing Bullying at School .  We've retooled No-Bullying to make it easier to use and adapt to your lesson plans.

In this student workbook, your sixth and seventh grade students will find information and activities to help them explore and remember the key concepts of the sessions.  They will find out what bullying is, why it happens, and what to do about it.  They'll find questions and projects to help them figure out their feelings, find out what other kids think, and learn how to get support without causing trouble.  This is part of the No-Bullying Program - Preventing Bullying at School .  We've retooled No-Bullying to make it easier to use and adapt to your lesson plans.

In this educational DVD, you'll hear from Real Teens as they discuss their views on bullying and harassment on campus and some of the motivations behind a bully's behavior.  Using interviews with teens that bully and teens that have been bullied, this program provides a broad understanding of why bullies do what they do.  The best way to handle them and who can be of help in a harassing situation.  The program discusses the damage to self-esteem when a student becomes the constant victim of bullying and the ways to avoid conflict and violence on campus.  This DVD is geared towards teens grades 8-12.  Teens tell us their fears and solutions in this "must watch" program.

In this educational DVD, You'll hear from Real Teens as they discuss their views on Cyber-Bullying.  Cyber-bullying is any form of harassment that occurs via the internet.  Vicious forum posts, name calling in chat rooms, posting fake profiles on web sites and mean or cruel email messages are all considered types of bullying.  While Cyber-Bullying mainly takes place on line, other high tech methods like threatening text messages and taunting voicemails also fall under this category.  In some States, Cyber-bullying is a crime that can even lead to death.  This DVD is geared towards teens grades 8-12.  This program has recommended companion title: Bullies and Harassment.

Runtime:  18 mins

From the creator of Broken Toy and Joey, here is another Thomas Brown DVD dealing with the impact of teasing and bullying.  Twelve-year-old Billy had it made.  He was popular and he had no idea how it felt to be down.  Billy and his best friends liked to pick on Christopher, a small built boy who had just lost his mother to cancer 6 months earlier.  However, a freak accident scars Billy, and the roles are now reversed.  Christopher stands up for Billy, who is now a Bully turned victim.  This changes Billy forever, as he learns the value of acceptance, sensitivity, and becoming a caring person.

Since this best-seller was first published in 1990, it has helped countless children build self-esteem and assertiveness skills.  This newly revised and updated book is the perfect resource for any kid who's ever been picked on at school, bossed around, blamed for things he or she didn't do, or treated unfairly. It's for any kid who sometimes feels frustrated, angry, powerless, or scared.  With simple words and real-life examples, this book shows how children can stick up for themselves with other kids (including bullies and teasers), big sisters and brothers, and even grown-ups.

In the United States, over 165,000 bullied children purposely miss school every day because they're afraid to go.  Childhood bullying has been a major factor in both youth suicides and school shootings.  "Storm" is an unnerving and stark reality drama of a boy whose ego and self-worth are reduced to the point where he takes his own life in order to, "make it all go away".  Thomas Brown, anti-bullying advocate and film director reflects on his own bullying experience in the classroom presentation of Taking Ninth Graders by STORM.  Here, Tom poses questions and invites debate on matters affecting the film's characters.  Students watching this segment are able to reflect on other students' attitudes toward bullying, providing them an opportunity to weigh their thoughts against those of their peers.

When you're the smallest kid playing a big man's game, the challenges never stop, especially when your name is Danny Walker. Leading your travel team to the national championship is like a dream come true, but for Danny, being at the top just means the competition tries that much harder to knock him off.  This summer, Danny's leaving Middletown and heading to Right Way basketball camp, where he's out of his element and maybe out of his league.  The country's best ball players are in attendance, and Danny will need to raise his game if he wants to match up.  But it won't be easy.  Old rivals and new battles leave Danny wondering if he really has what it takes to stand tall.

Thomas Brown has created another powerful, thought-provoking and touching film about how bullying can change and affect the lives of victims, the bystanders and the bully themselves. There are more than half a million school busses on the road every day in the U.S. alone, with fortunately, very few yearly fatalities on or involving them.  This video presents a "what if" scenario.  What if children were being so discourteous to driver and fellow peers, by engaging in misbehavior and bullying, that it would directly contribute to a driver losing control of the bus? This hard-hitting film does not focus on school bus safety. The film is about school bus BULLYING and what 'could' go horribly wrong. Our story DOES go horribly wrong, resulting lives both lost and forever changed. This film contains some scenes that might be upsetting to more sensitive or younger audiences. It has been successfully tested on grades 3-8.

People get hurt by words every day. Across the nation, someone is being subjected to mocking, name-calling or having rumors spread about them all over school.  Some victims of emotional harassment never fully recover from it, and the consequences can be devastating, yet the perpetrators go unpunished.  In this video, you'll find out what constitutes emotional harassment and what you can do to stop this social phenomenon.

Runtime: 24 mins

That's Enough is a fictional drama about the relationship between youth bullying and school shootings.  It examines what can happen when a high school student is mercilessly teased, socially excluded, and physically wounded.  It challenges middle and high school students to explore bullying at their schools and the cliques, struggles, and ostracizing that may result, and in some cases, has resulted shootings and youth suicides.  This video is directed by Jack Revheim, a seventeen-year old Central High School (St. Paul, MN) exchange student from Norway.  The screenplay is co-authored by Jack Revheim and Dr. Michael Obsatz, Associate Professor of Sociology, Macalester College, (St. Paul, MN), author of the award-winning book, Raising Nonviolent Children in a Violent World, and violence prevention educator.  Dr. Obsatz is also the executive producer.  The cast includes middle school students, high school and college students, as well as adults.  The video also includes a seven-minute interview with Dr. Obsatz about bullying issues and questions teachers can use for discussion.

Runtime:  20 mins

Bullying hurts, and scares many people. It also causes anxiety, and disrupts lives. This comprehensive program will provide solid advice for understanding and dealing with bullies, and viewers will learn the causes and effects of bullying. Why do they do it, and what do they stand to gain? Most importantly, viewers learn the things they can do if they are the victim of a bully. They will learn it's NOT their fault; where they can go for help; and what specific steps they can take to stop the abuse. This video includes interviews, teen bullies, and experts on bullying.

This short, but powerful book has forever changed the lives of thousands of educators, parents and victims of chronic bullying.  It is issued to school systems by the Departments of Education in Alabama, North Carolina and Indiana as well as the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency.  This book has created nothing short of a movement in the battle against bullying in our schools.  Updated with more than 50 pages of new material to help combat bullying, Weakfish has become a tremendously popular book.