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NEW! "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.

Author: Leigh Anne Kraemer, M.Ed.

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: $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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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 Sale Price $60

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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).

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

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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
Sale Price $50

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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
Sale Price $50

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

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