Bullying Prevention Curriculum ProgramsBullying is an insidious problem among students in elementary schools, junior high schools, and high schools everywhere. In fact, 19 percent of students ages 12 to 18 in the United States report having been bullied during school as of 2021-2022, 22 percent happened online or by text.
Research over the years has shown that bullying behavior puts both student victims and the bullies themselves at increased risk for criminal behavior, delinquency, violence, substance use, depression, self-harm, suicide, and lifelong health problems. No educator wants that for their students.
To stop bullying, a school-wide anti-bullying program for students needs to tackle several fronts, including whole school or site-wide reform, behavior management, student readiness, and parent involvement.
The Positive Action anti-bullying program combines these strategies and more into one comprehensive approach to help children navigate the intense social dynamics of childhood and adolescence.
The Bullying Prevention curriculum works hand in hand with the Positive Action core curriculum to develop the whole child and prevent harmful behaviors effectively.
Students build healthy habits and character first through the core curriculum, and then the bullying prevention curriculum layers on to address the more immediate causes of bullying behaviors.
Both curricula follow the same six-unit design of the Positive Action program, so they can align and integrate easily into a cohesive learning experience.
This approach targets the proximal causes of bullying by providing students with actionable strategies they can apply in real-world social situations.
Bullying Prevention is integrated with Kindergarten through Grade 5 core curricula, teaching students early on what bullying is, why it happens, who is affected, and how it can be effectively prevented.
Following the elementary level, the universal, six-unit scaffolded structure of the program builds on students' compassion, empathy, and positive relationship-building skills through middle school and high school. This effectively ensures that bullying prevention and healthy relationship-building are reinforced among students as they progress through grade levels.
Pasela is Positive Action's implementation app that houses over 2000 lessons from the core and prevention curricula.
A Pasela license for any K-5 product gives you access to both the core curriculum and the complete bullying prevention curriculum, at NO additional cost.
Each Positive Action curriculum includes three accessible sample lessons available through a free trial sign-up in Pasela.
Some lessons are available for download. Simply click on the image below to discover all of our sample lessons.
Preventing the adverse experiences of bullying in childhood and adolescence through Positive Action allows young learners to thrive in a safe, supportive environment, where children can excel academically, think critically, and cultivate their personal growth with trust in their peers and educators.
Positive Action supports healthy development by strengthening self-concept, teaching core life skills, and reinforcing prosocial behaviors.
A study found that children or adolescents who experience bullying face adverse outcomes in adulthood, such as diminished well-being, poorer health, strained relationships, and a lasting impact on confidence.
A proactive approach to bullying prevention supports children's physical, intellectual, social, and emotional health.
You can set your students up for success by implementing the Positive Action program, your partner against bullying!
Yes, they really work. In 2022, the Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) released a recommendation on bullying intervention and prevention based on a meta-analysis of 69 studies.
The review revealed that an anti-bullying program can reduce the instances of students bullying others, students having to experience bullying themselves, and cyberbullying, as well as improve students' mental and emotional well-being.
There is no universal, minimum timeframe that can be expected from every initiative to show its maximum effectiveness. Schools should treat anti-bullying prevention as a sustained, multi-year effort instead of a one-time activity to try for a single school year. Schools should monitor outcomes regularly and use results to strengthen implementation over time.
Our curriculum lasts the entire school year, but clinical studies have shown that a minimum of two years is required for the initiative to show maximum effectiveness. Schools shouldn't abandon the project after only one year.
The Positive Action Bullying Program includes an elementary curriculum license in Pasela and a complementary Bullying Prevention curriculum.
Each elementary curriculum contains about 140 lessons with hundreds of digital resources, activity sheets, visual aids, audio resources, and correlated content per grade level. The bullying prevention curriculum builds upon the main lessons with direct instructions on topics focused on bullying. It contains 21 lessons, digital resources, activity sheets, stories, and correlated content. With program adaptation, it can apply to older students, too.
All curricula include an instructor's guide, unit overview, digital resources list, posters, and certificates of completion - all the information needed to implement the program.
