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STARTED OFF WITH DATA (SURVEY)

I randomly polled 3 homerooms from each grade:

Roughly 80-90 students representing their grade (about 10% of school population)

Anonymous, but included grade and gender for eventual data comparisons

Questions included both closed and open formats (examples):

“On a scale of 1-5, how much of a problem do you thinking bullying is at your school?”

“How often do you see others being bullied?”

“Where do you see others being bullied?”

“What do you think would help the bullying problem at your school?”

“IS BULLYING A PROBLEM IN OUR SCHOOL?”

58%

4%

38%

*6th Grade*

Yes NoMaybe

62%

5%

33%

*7th Grade*

Yes NoMaybe

43%

10%

47%

*8th Grade*

Yes No Maybe

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ANTI-BULLYING AWARENESS WEEK 2012

FLYERS ALL AROUND SCHOOL MONDAY MORNINGOUTSIDE OF EVERY BATHROOM, OVERTOP OF EVERY WATER FOUNTAIN, ON FOOD MACHINES IN CAFETERIA, ON WINDOWS LOOKING OUTSIDE

ENTRANCE – FIRST THING STUDENTS SEE

UNITY DAY! GRADE-WIDE PRESENTATIONS IN THE MORNING

UNITY DAY GRADE-WIDE PRESENTATIONS:STUDENTS WORE ORANGE TO SUPPORT CAUSE

IN CAFETERIA – PLEDGE STUDENTS CAN SIGN AFTER SEEING PRESENTATIONS

PRESENTATIONS INCLUDED

• Overview of definition and examples of bullying (all forms)

• Real-life statistics of how bullying affects Middle Schoolers

• The story of Megan Meier’s BULLYCIDE & the “Megan Pledge” – increase awareness of cyberbullying and empower youth to take positive action to prevent it.

• Empowering students by giving constructive examples of how to stand up to bullies

• “The Bystander Effect” – the power of stopping bullying is in the hands of the people who are bystanders

• A small video clip of real-life ways to “be more than a bystander”

AFTER ONE DAY!

KIDS DO CARE!

Saw this when walking in the hallway –

Someone wrote “no one cares” above Week Long Scavenger Hunt,

So another student erased it and wrote: “we all care! ”

RESOURCES USED:

Bullying:

http://www.pacer.org/bullying/nbpm/

http://www.pacer.org/bullying/nbpm/unity-day.asp

http://www.customink.com/stopbullying

Cyberbullying:

http://www.cyberbullying.us/

http://www.stopcyberbullying.org

Megan Pledge:

www.azag.gov/children_family/MeganPledge/MeganPledge.pdf

http://teenangels.org/the_megan_pledge/