Cyberbullying Upstander Protocols

Give Your Students The Tools To Be Upstanders Against Cyberbullying: The Comprehensive Upstander Protocol & Digital Citizenship Course

Do You Find Yourself Repeatedly Telling Your Students To "Just Be Nice" Online, But Online Bullying Keeps Happening? Do Your Students Freeze Up When They See Someone Being Mean On A Group Chat, A Commenting Section, Or A Game Because They Don’t Know What To Do? Instead Of Continuing To Give Vague Directions, It’s Time To Give Them A Tactical Playbook That Will Help Them Stop Harassment In Their Everyday Digital Interactions.

This Encompassing Cyberbullying Upstander Protocol Will Provide A Complete Ready-To-Use Curriculum For Middle And Early High School Students. It Will Transition Passive By-Standers To Confident & Active "Up-Standers" By Giving Them Scripts, Psychological Awareness, And Action Plans That Will Enable Them To Stop Online Harassment In A Safe And Efficient Manner While They’re Experiencing It.

This Resource Is Grounded In Sociology, Adolescent Psychology, And Uses The A.I.S.R. (Assess, Intervene, Support, Report) Framework To Provide Students With Concrete Next Steps In Navigating The Complex Digital Landscapes Of TikTok, Discord, Instagram, Etc.

– This entire package is 42 pages which can be broken down as follows:

Part 1: The Core Protocol Guide (10 pages) will provide you with the psychology behind the digital bystander, de-escalation techniques, and 4 vetted action plans complete with scripts to memorize.

Part 2: The Student Workbook (13 pages) includes worksheets that will help students analyze the scenario, assess threats, create a script, collect evidence, and write their own personal Upstander Action Plan.

Part 3: Teacher Materials & Visual Aids (19 pages)

• Teaching Visual Aids: High-quality diagrams that can be projected in classrooms or used in the classroom to assist students in visualizing their learning experiences (IE: The Intervention Quadrant, The S.T.E.P. Flowchart & The Threat Escalation Pyramid),

• Teacher Instructions on How To Implement The Curriculum: Outline of the curriculum with pacing, creating psychological safety for students, and how to overcome the "snitch" stigma.

• Formative Assessment Rubric for Grading Students' Action Plan: Provides teachers with an easy and reliable method for grading students based on the action plan's tactical viability and empathy.

• Comprehensive Answer Key: Gives teachers the master answers to all worksheets.

This package is far more than just another anti-bullying lesson; it is a life-skill tool kit for responsible and resilient digital citizenship. Give your students the ability not only to be aware of the digital world but to actively contribute to making it a better and safer place.

Ideal For: Health Classes, Advisory Periods, SEL Blocks, Digital Citizenship Units and School Counselors

Why Schools/Parents Love It:

More than Just "Be Kind": This curriculum includes specific, action-oriented scripts and protocols to create clear expectations of "what to say and do" instead of vague statements.

Student-Driven Empowerment: This program teaches de-escalation and assessment skills for students to intervene in a way that reduces risk to themselves and effectively supports the victim (or target).

Relevant & Timely: The curriculum uses real-life examples from platforms like TikTok, Discord and Snapchat to make today's teenagers more likely to relate to and engage with the content.

Comprehensive & Easy Prep for Teachers: This one-stop shop includes a teacher guide, student workbooks, visual aids, and a complete answer key to help save teachers' time on lesson prep.

Builds Critical Life Skills: Provides students with digital citizenship, social-emotional intelligence, and critical thinking skills they can use throughout their lives.

Designed for the following content categories (what your target audience will be primarily using these social media apps for), please refer to:

1. Target Audience - Based on age, developmental level, language, type of social media app (TikTok, Discord, Snapchat), then use those to define who your target audience will be.

Primary Audience - 7-9 Grades - Ages 12-15 - This is clearly stated as TARGETED in the content and aligns perfectly with their social & developmental stage.

Secondary Audience - 6th Graders - This can be introduced as a unit; 10th Graders – It can be used as a reinforcer or review.

2. Target Audience

- Edu/FV Curriculum - School Counselors, Health Teachers, Tech/Digital Citizenship Teachers and any Homeroom/Advisory Teacher who curates SEL Curriculum have the responsibility for providing accurate information through their respective content areas.

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