Evaluation of a program for the successful
reduction of school bullying.
Not exact matches
Stan Davis: The primary goal
of my
bullying reduction strategies is to have
school staff and students work together to encourage, model, and enforce
school - wide expectations for respectful behavior.
The first is improved student outcomes, and while that is usually around achievement outcomes — literacy and maths, for example — increasingly there is a focus on social outcomes such as
reduction in
bullying and students» enjoyment
of school and
of their learning.
Other
schools reported a serious
reduction in incidents
of racism and
bullying as a result
of more rigorous reporting.
Social and emotional learning featured prominently in the act, which defined safe and supportive
schools as those that ``... foster a safe, positive, healthy and inclusive whole -
school learning environment that (i) enable students to develop positive relationships with adults and peers, regulate their emotions and behavior, achieve academic and non-academic success in
school and maintain physical and psychological health and well - being and (ii) integrate services and align initiatives that promote students» behavioral health, including social and emotional learning,
bullying prevention, trauma sensitivity, dropout prevention, truancy
reduction, children's mental health, foster care and homeless youth education, inclusion
of students with disabilities, positive behavioral approaches that reduce suspensions and expulsions and other similar initiatives.»
In a study that looked at over 1853 students from 12 Victorian
schools found significant improvements in student sleep, their sense
of safety at
school,
reductions in
bullying, increases in emotional well being and the ability to manage emotions for students who reported lower wellbeing at the start
of the study.
Espelage, Polanin, and Rose (2015), in a study
of the Second Step middle
school program, reported a 20 percent
reduction in
bullying by students with disabilities who were exposed to lessons from the sixth - through eighth - grade curriculum over three years.
Social and emotional learning featured prominently in the act, which defined safe and supportive
schools as those that ``... foster a safe, positive, healthy and inclusive whole -
school learning environment that (i) enable students to develop positive relationships with adults and peers, regulate their emotions and behavior, achieve academic and non-academic success in
school and maintain physical and psychological health and well - being and (ii) integrate services and align initiatives that promote students» behavioral health, including social and emotional learning,
bullying prevention, trauma sensitivity, dropout prevention, truancy
reduction, children's mental health, foster care and homeless youth education, inclusion
of students with disabilities, positive behavioral approaches that reduce suspensions and expulsions and other similar initiatives.»
School - based interventions have demonstrated positive outcomes in Norway and England,40 - 43 with
reductions in
bullying of 30 % to 50 %.