NEW! "CyberCool" : 15 positively powerful lessons to teach digital citizenship and stop cyberbullying

Grades 6-9

These project-based lessons are suitable for 6th-9th grade students in both in-school and after-school settings. The CyberCool cyberbullying lessons meet national standards for communication and collaboration and digital citizenship and employ engaging technology resources for student discovery and assessment. Explore peer aggression, empathy, communication, anonymity, empowerment and privacy in the digital world and help your students develop the courage and skills to take a stand against un-cool cyberbullying behaviors.

The CyberCool lessons will:

• Increase students’ empathy skills
• Make students aware of physical, verbal, relational, and most importantly ,cyber aggression
• Educate students about the long-term consequences of cyberbullying in the digital space
• Engage students as investigators, designers, and mentors of safer cyber climates
• Empower students to write a manifesto regarding their beliefs and goals in making the Internet a safer social climate.
• Provide students with opportunities for blogging, “tweeting,” and sharing digital files in a safe, structured, bully-free environment

Author: Erika Dauber, M. A. , Learning, Design, & Technology, Stanford University

Note: Lessons require internet access.

"CyberCool" curriculum $75 Grades 6-9

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"It Has a Name: Relational Aggression" is a curriculum for girls that introduces relational aggression, covering six topics:

• The Language of Peer Aggression
• Normative Beliefs
• Developing Healthy
• Inclusive Friendships
• Popularity and Leadership
• The Role of the Bystander
• Cyberbullying
  

"It Has a Name: Relational Aggression" is available for 5 age levels - Kindergarden-1st Grade, 2nd-3rd Grade, 4th-5th Grade, Middle School, and High School

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Entire curriculum: $85, Individual age volume: $20/piece

ORDER ONLINE or Download a PDF Order Form. Call 1-888-256-KIDS (5437) for more information.

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“All the RAGE: Relational Aggression Girls Empowered” is a powerful study guide designed to educate parents about: relational aggression, the challenges faced by kids in today's culture and resources available to reduce relational aggression. The guide includes five sessions titled:

• The Language of Peer Aggression
• Identifying the Roles in Relational Aggression
• Danger Signs for Parents
• Media and Today's Youth
• Collaborating to Create Safe Social Climates.

“All the RAGE: Relational Aggression Girls Empowered” Parent Study Guide: $25

Click here for a preview of "All the Rage" (PDF).

ORDER ONLINE or Download a PDF Order Form. Call 1-888-256-KIDS (5437) for more information.

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“Kids Helping Kids” builds a sense of personal power in each child through the practice of pro-social skills. Students find the courage to welcome a new student into their work and play, develop an understanding of empathy, and learn how to defend a classmate when he or she is being treated unfairly.

Grades 4-5.

“Kids Helping Kids” curriculum: $45

Click here for a preview of "Kids Helping Kids " (PDF).

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“Let’s Be Friends” is a prevention curriculum teaching young children positive skills. This curriculum presents useful tools that enable students to co-create a positive social environment that fosters kindness, compassion and responsibility.

Grades 2-3.

“Let’s Be Friends” curriculum: $45

Click here for a preview of "Let's Be Friends" (PDF).

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“In Their Own Words: Stories of Relational Aggression and Bullying”includes 13 stories from youth ages 13-17. Each story demonstrates how relational aggression and bullying is common to all young people, regardless of the motivation behind it. In these revealing vignettes, you will hear regret, loss, courage and hope, and come to understand the impact of relational aggression on the lives of youth.

Now includes a complete study guide for teachers and youth group leaders.

Grades 5-12. Running time 39:09 minutes.

Cost: $35, DVD and Guide

ORDER ONLINE or Download a PDF Order Form. Call 1-888-256-KIDS (5437) for more information.

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"Adolescent Development"
explores the world of adolescence. Examine the dichotomy of adolescent behaviors. Recognize the power of the media on a growing adolescent's development. Explore how changes in the body and brain affect how adolescents think, what they feel, and what they do.

Presented by Charisse Nixon, Ph.D. with The Ophelia Institute™, "Adolescent Development" provides a solid developmental foundation to begin to address peer aggression in schools and organizations. If you are an educator and work with children and adolescents, or if you would just like to better understand adolescents, this DVD is for you!
Cost: $40

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“Relational Aggression: An Introduction” is a comprehensive overview of relational aggression and an essential addition to a home, school or institutional library.

Charisse Nixon, Ph.D. defines relational aggression; describes different forms of aggression; identifies cultural influences on aggressive behaviors, and discusses the prevalence of relational aggression and its potentially negative consequences. CD-ROM and online course include 38 minutes of lecture, downloadable PDF of corresponding PowerPoint slides, video clips and easy to follow script. Presented by The Ophelia Institute™.
Cost: $60, CD-ROM includes resources

ORDER ONLINE or Download a PDF Order Form. Call 1-888-256-KIDS (5437) for more information.

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"Relational Aggression: Strategies and Solutions" is a follow up course to "Relational Aggression: An Introduction." Learn concrete strategies and proven solutions to reducing relational aggression in schools and other youth-serving agencies.

Presented by Charisse Nixon, Ph.D. with The Ophelia Institute™, this course is the ultimate companion to any relational aggression awareness campaign: it gives you the tools to create a safe social climate.
Cost: $60, CD-ROM includes resources

ORDER ONLINE or Download a PDF Order Form. Call 1-888-256-KIDS (5437) for more information.

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The CASS: Creating a Safe School™ Mentor Program trains high school students to mentor middle school students and is a starting point for school systems that want to address the issue of peer aggression. Simultaneously a middle school and high school program, mentors develop leadership skills and learn to deliver a Peer Aggression Intervention Program to middle school students.

While the major focus is to prepare the mentors to deliver the Peer Aggression Intervention Program, the high school students themselves undergo major positive changes. Based on reports from our schools, high school mentors:

• Learn and begin using The Language of Peer Aggression
• Consider the impact of their own beliefs and behaviors
• Develop leadership skills
• Examine the culture of their own high schools and become more aware of the presence of peer and relational aggression.

“CASS: Creating a Safe School Mentor Program” is sold with training and include:

• Facilitator Manual for teachers, administrators and those who coordinate the program (includes an adaptation of our How Kids Hurt and Help Each Other script)
• Mentor Manual: for high school teens who become mentors (includes an adaptation of our How Kids Hurt and Help Each Other script)
• Consultant Manual: for staff who serve as consultants to the school, faculty and parents

“CASS: Creating a Safe School Mentor Program” is sold with consulting and training.

“RAPS: Relationships are Pathways to Success” connects college students in your local area with middle school students through school and community driven after-school programs. A yearlong program, RAPS develops trusting, connected relationships, encourages personal growth and opens up new worlds of opportunity for both the mentees and the mentors.

“RAPS: Relationships are Pathways to Success” is sold with consulting and facilitator training.

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CASS: Creating a Safe School™

CASS: Creating A Safe School™ Assessments are recommended as the first step for schools and organizations serious about understanding relational aggression and creating safe social climates. Assessments include:

• Up to 12 hours on-site and 6 hours off-site consultation
• Up to two members of The Ophelia Project® consultation team
• A minimum of one meeting with organizational leadership to determine the current status of the social climate, identify relational aggression incidence, targets and triggers, review policies and procedures
• Facilitation of a minimum of four learning discussion groups including teachers, administrators, parents and students who make up a cross section of the school population
• One meeting with organizational leadership to discuss findings and support development of an action plan
• An executive summary of current climate, complete with personalized recommendations for affecting change

CASS: Creating a Safe School™ Consulting Services are short-term and long-term consultations that meets the specific needs of your school, school district or community organization. This service empowers leaders to examine the conditions that contribute to the social climate. It also guides them through construction of an action plan that increases the social and emotional safety of the children, as well as the adults in the community.

This consultation can include:

• Addressing a specific problem that requires immediate intervention, such as a recent bullying incident
• Developing a policy on relational aggression in your organization, school, after-school program, or camp
• Planning a strategy for building awareness about relational aggression and the social climates in your school or organization
• Developing a systemic, long-term plan to engage your community in creating safe social climates
• Adapting The Ophelia Project® current curriculum, programs or trainings
• Consulting leaders in addressing issues of relational aggression which may include how to:
• Develop and structure a CASS: Creating a Safe School™ task force
• Review and revise relational aggression and bullying policies and procedures
• Identify and promote schoolwide normative behaviors
• Recognize covert aggression in the workplace
• Coaching leaders in personal and professional development
• Discovering possibilities for effective action
• Strengthening communication skills
• Building more trusting relationships

Research tells us that you CAN change the social culture of your school and change students’ beliefs about how they should treat one another.  “Five Critical Steps” for teachers describes a comprehensive approach to identifying peer aggression, naming the behaviors and developing practical intervention strategies. The curriculum teaches how to:

• Recognize the Behavior
• Name the Behavior Using the Shared Language of Peer Aggression
• Establish Positive Norms to Create a Safer Climate in your Classroom
• Create a Pro-Social, “CASS™” Classroom/ Learning Environment
• Creating a Safe School Environment

Call 1-888-256-KIDS (5437) for more information.

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