Presentation:   Overview of Bullying

Length: 2-3 hours (time spent on topics is adjustable)

Description: This powerful, motivational multi-media presentation addresses the nature of bullying and what research tells us about it. Some of the major questions are addressed are:

• What is the definition of bullying and cyber bullying?
• What are some of the current issues surrounding the definition?
• What does bullying look like, including cyber bullying?
• How often does it occur?
• Where does it occur?
• When does it occur?
• What are the high-risk areas?
• What are the characteristics of the high-risk areas?
• Why don't students report it?
• How is it different with males and females?
• What are the typical characteristics of victims – warning signs?
• What are the typical characteristics of bullies – warning signs?
• What has to happen in schools for it to be prevented and stopped?

Presentation:   Why Bullying Must Be Prevented and Stopped

Length: 1 hour and 30 mins. 
Description: In this highly informative and emotionally-charged media-enriched presentation, Dr. Beane discusses the rationale for preventing and stopping bullying.  Dr. Beane discusses how bullying is robbing children of their childhood, causing fear, overwhelming anxiety, anger, hate, rage, depression, and Post Traumatic Stress.  He shows how it is connected to discipline problems, gangs, cults, hate groups, use of drugs, alcohol, teen pregnancies, suicides, self-harm (cutting), school and bus shootings, poor academic performance, school phobia, poor school attendance, and much more.

Training Goals:

• To discuss how destructive bullying is to the well-being of students.
• To discuss how bullying creates unsafe buses and schools.

Presentation:  Practical Administrative Strategies Designed to Prevent and Stop Bullying 

Length: 1 – 2 hours (time spent on topics can be adjusted)
Description: This presentation assumes that the participants already understand the nature of bullying and why it must be prevented and stopped. A variety of system-wide and school-based administrative strategies are discussed.

PresPresentation:  What Schools Must Do to Prevent and Stop Bullying

Length: 2 hours

Description:  Dr. Beane is the author of Bullying Prevention for Schools: A Step-by-Step Guide to Implementing a Successful Anti-bullying Program, published by Jossey-Bass.  He will discuss the bullying prevention misdirections of schools and the mistakes made by school personnel that have lead to numerous lawsuits, suicides, and school shootings. He will share insight gained from serving as an expert consultant in four criminal cases and eight lawsuits involving bullying. While he discusses nineteen steps to systematically preventing and stopping bullying, he will reveal the best prevention and intervention practices included in effective anti-bullying programs.

Presentation:  How Schools Can Prevent Lawsuits, Suicides, and Shootings Caused by Bullying

Length: 2 hours   

Description:  Dr. Beane will discuss the bullying prevention programming misdirections of schools and the mistakes made by school personnel that have lead to numerous lawsuits, suicides, and school shootings. Dr. Beane will share his insight gained from serving as an expert consultant in four criminal case and eight lawsuits involving bullying.  He will also discuss the best prevention and intervention practices included in effective anti-bullying programs.

Presentation:  How to Respond to Bullying Seen and Heard (On-the-Spot Responding)

Length: 2 hours

Description: To set the stage for this seminar, attendees will watch a video of a staged hostage situation that could have been prevented if the adults had promptly responded to the bullying. Then, Dr. Beane will discuss an eight step process for immediately responding to bullying seen and heard.  As the process is described, attendees will observe video clips of an adult applying each step.  Dr. Beane will also discuss how to immediately develop an effective safety plan for bullied children and how bullied students can help themselves when adults are not around.