<p>The teacher's guide contains eleven sequential lessons. Class discussions, role plays, case studies, writing exercises, reading assignments, art activities, and nightly homework combine to give students the opportunity to explore and determine the fine distinctions between "teasing" and "bullying." Children gain a conceptual framework and a common vocabulary that allows them to find their own links between teasing and bullying and, eventually, sexual harassment.A three-year evaluation, funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), provided independent research into the curriculum's effectiveness with fifth grade students and their teachers in Austin, Texas. Results from the evaluation study showed that students in the intervention schools (those that used Bullyproof) as compared with the control schools (those that did not use Bullyproof) showed greater accuracy over time in identifying behaviors that constituted sexual harassment. In addition, the intervention may have influenced girls' attitudes about bullies. Moreover, the use of Bullyproof as an intervention tool was demonstrated to be successful in increasing student and staff knowledge about sexual harassment.This evaluation study was conducted by SafePlace, a combined sexual assault/domestic violence center, The Austin, TX Independent School District, and the University of Texas, School of Social Work. Articles about the evaluation outcomes can be found in Journal of Interpersonal Violence (November 2003 issue, vol 18, #11, pp. 1347-1360), and in two book chapters published in 2004, both co-authored by Barri Rosenbluth, Daniel Whitaker, Ellen Sanchez and Linda Anne Valle. Their chapters can be found in: Bullying in American Schools: A Social-Ecological Perspective on Prevention and Intervention, edited by Dorothy Espelage &amp; Susan Swearer, (pp. 327-350); and Bullying in Schools: How successful can interventions be? edited by Peter K. Smith, Debra Pepler and Ken Rigby (pp. 211-250).</p>

Bullyproof: A Teacher's Guide on Teasing and Bullying for Use with Fourth and Fifth Grade Students

Nan Stein

Lisa Sjostrom

Wellesley College Center for Research on Women

The purpose of this teaching guide is to explore power, inequities, and violence in relationships as well as friendship, interventions, justice, and courage in relationships. The large subject of gender violence, which includes hazing, sexual harassment, and sexual assault, can be deepened, reinforced and strengthened by connections to and infusion into social studies and humanities courses. Classroom discussions on these topics can be extended beyond a particular lesson through literature, writing assignments, case studies, mock trials, and research assignments. The unique feature of this teaching guide is that it is literature- and history-based. Going beyond discussions of negative interpersonal interactions, the teaching guide makes use of selections from literature and history to include lessons on the themes of friendship, mutuality, affection, courage, and loyalty - some of the qualities that we hope will replace violence and coercion in interpersonal relationships. It is one thing to find books and historical incidents that highlight violence; it is quite another to find literary sources and historical incidents that bring out the positive and allow us to imagine relationships without violence and coercion.

Gender Violence, Gender Justice: An Interdisciplinary Teaching Guide for Teachers of English, Literature, Social Studies, Psychology, Health, Peer Counseling, and Family and Consumer Sciences (Grades 7-12)

Dominic Cappello

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Bullyproof: A Teacher's Guide on Teasing and Bullying for Use with Fourth and Fifth Grade Students

Gender Violence, Gender Justice: An Interdisciplinary Teaching Guide for Teachers of English, Literature, Social Studies, Psychology, Health, Peer Counseling, and Family and Consumer Sciences (Grades 7-12)