This four part series includes research-based data about bullying and violence in schools. It offers profiles of bullies and compares passive and provocative victims. Profiles of parents of victims and bullies are included as well as information about the three types of bullying. There is extensive analysis of the influence of the media on violence in youth and tools for empowering victims and witnesses. Preventative tactics are followed by effective and ineffective disciplinary techniques and there is extensive information on writing anti-bullying policy at the building and/or district level. Step-by-step timelines regarding data gathering and analysis as well as information delivery to the wider school community are also included in the sessions. This is a comprehensive look at this increasingly evident issue in schools today.

Four video segments-total length-133minutes