This user-friendly resource provides Kû6 teachers, school administrators, and counselors with fun, interactive lessons and activities that support students’ safety and well-being, promote healthy social-emotional development, and improve academic achievement. Using role plays and sample scripts that can be adapted to specific situations, the authors illustrate how to teach critical concepts and behaviors, including how to stand up to a bully and how to stop another student from bullying. .

"Same page" understanding of violence, respect, and bullying -- Solving problems peacefully and resolving conflicts respectfully -- Creating empathy -- Emotional control and anger management -- Teaching assertiveness -- Responding to a bully -- The power of bystanders -- Playful teasing vs. hurtful taunting -- Making friends: strategies to resist social aggression -- Epilogue -- Resources -- Resource A: Problems and conflicts to resolve -- Resource B: Assertive statements -- Resource C: Assertive communication scenarios -- Resource D: Lesson outlines -- References.