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"RAISE Boys: Reduce Aggression
IncreaseSelf Empowerment"

Grade Levels:
K-1st, 2nd-3rd, 4th-5th, Middle School, High School

This curriculum guides boys to develop positive strategies for identifying and mediating peer aggression. Six topics include:

• The Language of Peer Aggression
• The Bystander
• Normative Beliefs
• Friendship
• Leadership
• Cyberbullying
  

Activities are designed to help boys:

• Identify peer aggression and the roles in a bullying situation.
• Assess the importance of bystanders in a bullying situation.
• Identify emotions in the self and others. (K - 3rd grade)
• Distinguish between norms and rules. (4th - 5th grade)
• List social norms regarding male gender roles. (Middle School - High School)
• Determine positive qualities of friendship and leadership.
• Indentify cyberbullying.
• Demonstrate positive online communication strategies.
• Evaluate the roles of privacy and anonymity in online interactions. (Middle School - HS)

The curriculum is aligned with standards from the National Council of Teachers of English/International Reading Association, the International Society for Technology in Education, and the National Council for the Social Studies. Lessons also are aligned with the Center for Disease Control's National Health Standards.

Suggested Resources with this Curriculum:

• Kindergarten - 1st Grade lessons use the story Just Kidding by Trudy Ludwig.
• High School level lessons include short video clips with first person narratives of bullying situations. It is recommended to purchase the Ophelia Project's "In Their Own Words: Stories of Relational Aggression and Bullying" DVD and Study Guide.
• Levels for 4th-5th Grade, Middle School, and High School have optional online activities that require a computer with an Internet connection.

"RAISE Boys: Reduce Aggression, Increase Self Empowerment" 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: $100, Individual age volume: $25/piece

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

Grades 6-9 and Grades 9-12 (New in 2011)

These project-based lessons are suitable for students in both in-school and after-school settings. The CyberCool lessons include alignment to national standards from ISTE/NETS, The Common Core State Standards, CDC National Health Standards, and The American Diploma Project. This curriculum explores the six core concepts in addressing cyberbullying: peer aggression, empathy, communication, anonymity, empowerment, and privacy. Middle School lessons include a focus on how to deal with when cyberbullying impacts social interactions beyond the digital world while High School lessons include a focus on online privacy and maintaining a positive digital footprint as they enter the college and/or job search.

Through the CyberCool curriculum, students will:

• Develop positive norms and attitudes about online behaviors.
• Explore the consequences of cyberbullying in the digital space.
• Identify physical, verbal, relational, and most importantly cyber aggression.
• Evaluate the differences between electronic and face-to-face communication as they contribute to cyberbullying
• Assess the roles of anonymity and empathetic disconnect as contributors to cyberbullying.
• Develop strategies for empowering cyber-targets and bystanders.
• Act as investigators, designers, and mentors of safer cyber climates. 
• Develop clear, concise positions regarding cyberbullying and digital citizenship
• Access opportunities for blogging, “tweeting,” and sharing digital files in a safe, structured, bully-free environment.

Note: Lessons require internet access.

"CyberCool" curriculum - Price $75 each

Grades 6-9 Sale Price $50
Grades 9-12 Sale Price $50

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UPDATED October 2010! "It Has a Name: Relational Aggression" is a curriculum for girls that introduces relational aggression, covering six topics:

• The Language of Peer Aggression
• The Bystander
• Normative Beliefs
• Friendship
• Leadership
• Cyberbullying
  

The “It Has a Name: Relational Aggression” curriculum guides girls from Kindergarten through High School to develop positive strategies for identifying and mediating peer aggression. The 2010 revision of the Ophelia Project’s hallmark curriculum includes new activities, online explorations for girls (Fourth Grade – High School), and an updated introduction complete with a Scope and Sequence of curriculum objectives. Other topics include normative beliefs, gender expectations, friendship, leadership, and cyberbullying.

The six-lesson series provides activities designed to help girls:
- Identify peer aggression and the roles in a bullying situation.
- Assess the importance of bystanders in a bullying situation.
- Identify emotions in the self and others. (Kindergarten – Third Grade)
- Distinguish between norms and rules. (Fourth Grade – Fifth Grade)
- List social norms regarding gender roles. (Middle School – High School)
- Determine positive qualities of friendship and leadership.
- Identify cyberbullying.
- Demonstrate positive online communication strategies.
- Evaluate the roles of privacy and anonymity in online interactions (Middle School and High School).

In addition to the National School Climate Standards, the revised curriculum is aligned with the Common Core State Standards as well as standards from the National Council of Teachers of English/ International Reading Association, the International Society for Technology in Education, and the National Council for the Social Studies. Lessons also are aligned with the Center for Disease Control’s National Health Standards. Finally, a guide for Girl Scouts includes a listing of requirements the curriculum fulfills towards Daisy Petals, Brownie Try-Its, Junior Badges, and Cadette, Senior, and Ambassador Interest Projects.

"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: $100, Individual age volume: $25/piece

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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).

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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
Sale Price $35

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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
Sale Price $35

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UPDATED June 2011!
“In Their Own Words: Stories of Relational Aggression and Bullying”includes 13 stories from youth ages 13-17 and represents the diverse voices of teenagers as they share the personal impact of peer aggression. Hearing these stories can have a powerful effect on students who are struggling to fit in, make friends, and cope with the social and emotional challenges of adolescence. This DVD and study guide can be used to begin the process of creating a safe social climate where adolescents are able to establish and maintain healthy relationships.

The 2011 Edition features updated discussion questions as well as more application and extension activities to help youth take the lessons they have learned from watching and discussing the DVD vignettes and apply their new knowledge in their own lives. Interdisciplinary connections are included as well to help educators integrate lessons about peer aggression into writing, literature, history, foreign language and cultures, and the fine arts.

The study guide is aligned to standards including: Common Core State Standards, American Diploma Project Benchmarks, National School Climate Standards, and Centers for Disease Control National Health Education Standards.

Topics: Relational Aggression, Roles in Aggression, Making it Right, Revenge, Personal Strength, Friendship, Adult Intervention, and Cyberbullying.

As a result of viewing the DVD and participating in discussions and application activities, youth should be able to:

·         Define aggression and specific forms of aggression

·         Identify the roles within peer aggression: aggressor, target, and bystander

·         Evaluate the need for making it right after aggression

·         Develop and enhance pro-social skills

·         Analyze relationships and peer interactions.

·         Identify personal strengths that can help overcome aggression

Includes a complete study guide for teachers and youth group leaders and DVD.

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

Price $35, DVD and Study Guide

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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.

"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!

Price $40 - DVD

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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.

This course 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 course includes 38 minutes of lecture, downloadable PDF of corresponding PowerPoint slides, video clips and easy to follow script.

$50, CD-ROM includes resources
Sale Price $40

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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.

This course is the ultimate companion to any relational aggression awareness campaign: it gives you the tools to create a safe social climate.

$50, CD-ROM includes resources
Sale Price $40

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"Meaningful Mentoring Matters!" NEW March 2011

High School through Adult

The Ophelia Project acknowledges the importance of developing healthy relationships to create safe social climates. Mentorship is an important vehicle for promoting positive change. Meaningful Mentoring Matters is a training program that develops mentoring capabilities through the areas of communication, group facilitation, storytelling, and role playing. Through this program, mentors are carefully trained to understand pro-social behavior, to demonstrate effective communication skills, and to serve as role models for their mentees. Mentors can then enhance their leadership capacities while guiding their mentees through a developmental relationship. Mentorship creates a strong bond in which the mentor and mentee share a mutual respect and reliance for each other grounded in sound rapport.

Through the use of the Meaningful Mentoring Matters! Manual and accompanying DVD, members of your organization will be able to:

• Develop skills in the four domains necessary for effective mentoring: communication, group facilitation, storytelling, and role playing.
• Build capacity for establishing meaningful, connected relationships between mentors and mentees.
• Enhance the social climate of the organization.

 This curriculum includes the training manual for a the program facilitator, a Digital Supplement CD which includes PDF files for all handouts for participants, and a training DVD.

"Meaningful Mentoring Matters!"

Introductory Price $95

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"RAPS - Relationships Are Pathways to Success" NEW March 2011

Middle School Students and Mentors

Recognizing the importance of a caring, adult relationship in the lives of youth, the RAPS mentoring program engages young adults or adults who are interested in making a significant difference in their community as mentors to middle school students. The RAPS curriculum guides a program facilitator towards creating a framework for the program, selecting and training mentors, and implement mentoring sessions with middle school students.

The primary focus of RAPS is building healthy relationships. Icebreakers, group bonding exercises, individual activities and mentor–mentee one-on-one time help to teach important lessons about healthy relationships, self-empowerment, and personal identity development. Relationships between mentors and mentees, as well as the adult facilitators and the mentors, deepen over the course of the 21-week RAPS curriculum. As the middle school mentees progress through RAPS program, begin to trust in the mentoring relationship, share fun experiences, and gain a sense of empowerment in their daily decisions. The RAPS mentors benefit from a dual mentoring structure: Young adults or adults mentor middle school students while being mentored themselves by the caring adult facilitators who oversee the program.

 Middle School Mentee Objectives:

• Develop healthy trusting relationships.
• Discuss and reflect upon relevant adolescent issues in a supportive environment.
• Develop skills and positive lifestyle choices in the following developmental domains:
• Social/Emotional: Relationships, boundaries, empathy, motivation, peer pressure
• Cognitive: Goal-setting, social problem-solving, creative thinking
• Physical: Healthy choices, body image, physical activity, nutrition

Mentor Objectives:

• Develop healthy trusting and nurturing relationships.
• Create positive change in the community through mentorship.
• Analyze current issues that adolescents face.
• Develop leadership skills, including abilities to:
• Organize materials and meetings
• Lead group activities and discussions
• Collaborate as part of a team
• Communicate effectively
• Role-model appropriate social behaviors
• Provide support and empathy while maintaining appropriate boundaries

RAPS - Relationships Are Pathways to Success

Introductory Price $95

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