Countering Bullying and Harassment: Skill-Based Lessons to Move from Bystander to Ally

Created by Jane Harrison, a veteran trainer with years of experience in the classroom, Countering Bullying and Harassment: Skill-Based Lessons to Move from Bystander to Ally is a read-it-today, use-it-tomorrow resource with practical tips and strategies for implementation in a variety of educational settings. Implementing these lessons will lead to a greater recognition and understanding about bullying and harassment in middle and high schools. This curriculum provides an essential, practical set of tools that help young people learn what bullying is, how to recognize when it s happening, and skills and strategies to move from bystander to effective ally to support people who are the targets of bullying and harassment. Countering Bullying and Harassment offers six practical, streamlined, and sequenced lessons per grade level for sixth through tenth grades with variety of activity types including games, role-plays, cooperative learning, and selections from stories written by teens experiencing real-life bullying and harassment situations. Each lesson correlates to The Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) Competencies. Appendices offer information on Common Core alignment, cyberbullying, teaching and learning strategies, and peer education as an effective strategy to promote school climate change and prevent harassment.

Jane Harrison has more than 40 years of experience in education as a teacher, mentor, adjunct university professor, and a consultant in social and emotional learning, intergroup relations, and conflict resolution. With a Bachelor s degree in English and a Master s in Education, Jane first worked in her own classroom to build a respectful and caring learning environment. In the last twenty years, she has worked in elementary, middle, and high schools both nationally and internationally, with students, administrators, parents, teachers and support staffs. Jane is co-author of three books: Countering Bullying and Harassment: Skill-Based Lessons to Move from Bystander to Ally; Connected and Respected: Lessons from the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program; and Links to Literature: Teaching Tools to Enhance Literacy, Character, and Social Skills.