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Anti- Bully Programs

Venissa Lindsey

Grand Canyon University: ECH-520

April 13, 2016

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Anti- Bully Programs

Name of Background How program Suggested Additional
Program encourages a Strategies Elements
safe
environment.
Clark County Clark County School By having a zero Immediate Teacher
No Tolerance district has rules in tolerance rule for reporting of trainings, bully
for Bullying place at each school bullying the incident to free zones,
Act in regards to entire district is school parent
bullying. In recent advocating for personnel, the information
times due to social an environment have 24 hour meetings,
media, increase in that is free of window to continuous
suicides the harassment, investigate supervision and
Department of abuse and bullying and a monitoring help
Education has children feeling turnaround of to decrease the
enacted a zero like bullying is 72 hours to have number of
tolerance for ok. The district, a resolution to bullying
bullying. The state and the incident. incidents.
department along departments take Anonymous tip
with the school a stance against lines, safe
district has put the harmful reporting
tougher resources for epidemic of procedures as
parents, educators bullying. The well as follow
and students to asset website, school thorough are
with implementing a trainings, was to help
plan of action for activities for students be
bullying cases. This students, tip lines aware of
school year the act and spotlight on bullying.
has gotten stricter in the consequences
the amount of time of bullying are
that the case has to giving students,
be solved as well as staff and parents
teachers can risk a way to stand
being fired for lack against bullying.
of reporting.
Be Kind Like In memory of a The program Talking and They host
Josh young man who lost provides a safe modeling to school events to
his life to a tragic learning students on come out and
accident at the age of environment by exactly what it talk to the whole
13, Josh Stevens’s encouraging means to be student body.
parents created a students to stand kind. The Students, staff,
program called Be against bulling family of Josh administrators
Kind Like Josh. He as well as Stevens come and teachers
was a young man encouraging out to local embrace that it
who was kind to students to use schools to show only takes a
everyone he met, he kind words and what simple simple act of
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always smiled and use kind acts of kindness kindness to

an entire school and manners. Since look like, how brighten
community came Josh was always they are used someone’s day.
together at his being kind to and different
memorial service someone else or ways that
and shared stories of often was seen students can be
this young man. His doing something king. They
parents visit schools for someone share his story
in Nevada to talk to else, the program in hopes that
students about being encourages other kids will
kids, treating others students, want to be like
with kindness and to teachers, staff, Josh. This is
speak of stories of parents and shown through
his remarkable acts administration to his story,
of kindness. catch others schools
being kind. adoption of the
motto “Be Kind
Like Josh”
which is
displayed on
shirts, sweaters,
bulletin boards
and assemblies.
Schools can
pick a be kind
day of the week
in which all
students wear
their be kind
shirts and the
emphasis is
placed on being
kind.
Character In 1992 a program The Character TRRFCC is the Character
Counts was created by Counts program acronym for the Counts week
experts in ethics and is based around program and the will be held
character. They six pillars of six pillars are October 21-27,
worked together to Character: designed to 2016. This is a
find ways to Trustworthiness, create an week where
incorporate a respect, environment schools who
common language responsibility, that holds participate in the
with strong ethical fairness, caring students character counts
values that looked and citizenship accountable for program and
past religion, race, (TRRFCC). their behavior. curriculum have
gender and The system is activities
differences in designed to planned to
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socioeconomic teach children encourage and

status. that character celebrate
(charactercounts.org) counts, pushing character counts.
character and Children will
with adults, also take a
educators and survey on where
caregivers they are able to
modeling express
desired themselves and
behaviors. give their honest
thoughts and
opinions on the
program.

The program that is currently used in my classroom is a mixture of the three different

programs. Although we use the motto be kind and work hard as our schoolwide motto it was not

just enough to say it. The motto is superficial students needed to believe not just say it. Children

needed to understand what being kind meant. Kindness is something that most children learn

from a very young age. However, there are students who do not know what being kind means.

We adopted the Be Kind Like Josh campaign for our individual classroom program. The reason

we choose this is because Josh was a child, someone my children could relate to and if he was

capable of touching so many students then they understood that they were just a capable.

With the school using the model it made it more meaningful when we adopted the Be

Kind like Josh campaign. We have a portion of the day where we share the acts of kindness that

we saw someone do, the kids look forward to giving praise to each other for being kind. It

allowed us to develop more meaningful friendships as well as be conscious of our own moments

of being kind. We have learned that kindness is something that costs us nothing but gives us joy

beyond anything we could have imagined.