Sentences with phrase «on bullying prevention efforts»

It's the perfect time to shine a light on the bullying prevention efforts in your setting and find ways to beef them up.

School officials focused exclusively on bullying prevention efforts might want to consider the findings of a new study showing the highly damaging effects of multiple forms of victimization on school climate.

Not exact matches

Although bullying prevention efforts tend to focus on middle schools and high schools, bullying behavior begins at much younger ages.

The training will also focus on practical tools and strategies to engage parents and community partners in bullying prevention efforts.

In fact, Maria Ttofi and David Farrington (both from the University of Cambridge) conducted a more sophisticated analysis of forty - four bullying prevention efforts (excluding programs that targeted violence or aggression generally) and uncovered some promising evidence: ``... school - based anti-bullying programs are effective: on average, bullying decreased by 20 — 23 % and victimization decreased by 17 — 20 %.»

More recently, Espelage and her colleagues reviewed 19 evaluations of bullying prevention programs and found that these efforts do ok with younger students (7th grade and lower), but largely fail among students in high school: «Altogether, the present analysis suggests that we can not yet confidently rely on anti-bullying programs for grades 8 and above.»

To ensure that bullying prevention efforts are successful, all school staff need to be trained on what bullying is, what the school's policies and rules are, and how to enforce the rules.