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,
teasing, harassment

Shoves, pushes, hitting,

assault

Psychological
Rolling eyes, dirty looks, uttering threats, extortion

Bullying can be:

INDIRECT
Behind someones back

Exclusion

Relational Aggression

Leaving out
Shunning

Telling people not to be friends

with a victim

Gossip
Lowering peoples 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 persons
body, feelings, or
things.

71% of school
shooters had
been victims of
bullying.

Bully

Starts the bullying and

takes an active part

Follower/Henchm
an

Takes an active part,

but does not start the
bullying

Supporter

Supports the bullying but

does not take an active
part

Passive Supporter
(Possible Bully)

Likes the bullying but does

not display open support

Defender of the
Victim
Dislikes the bullying and
helps or tries to help the
victim

Possible
Defender
Dislikes the bullying
and thinks he ought
to help but doesnt

Disengaged Onlooker

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

Lets Test
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2007-2008 BENCHMARKS
1st Semester
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Attend a two hour No Place for Hate training.

Form a committee to oversee anti-bias. activities in your school.
Deliver No Place for Hate training to the faculty of your school.
Facilitate the implementation of a minimum of two projects that celebrate
diversity and promote respect.
Submit the first semester No Place for Hate report form to the
Prevention/Intervention office.

2007-2008 BENCHMARKS
2nd Semester
1.
2.

3.
4.

Facilitate at least two meetings of the No Place for

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