St. Monica School Embraces Bullying Prevention Program
This school year, St. Monica School teachers and staff received two days of training in the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program, or OBPP for short. OBPP is the most researched and best-known bullying prevention program available. Developed by Dan Olweus of Norway, the OBPP has over 35 years of research behind it and has been successfully implemented throughout the world in countries such as the United States, Canada, England, Mexico, Iceland, Germany, Sweden, Croatia, and Norway. We are blessed to have our school Guidance Counselor, Missy Stewart, and a number of staff members enthusiastically leading our implementation efforts of the OBPP Program.
To stop and to prevent bullying, it needs to be addressed at all levels of a student’s experience. Unlike a curriculum that only addresses bullying at the classroom level and for a limited period of time, OBPP addresses bullying at the school-wide, classroom, individual and community levels. Students receive a consistent, reinforced message.
The goals of the OBPP are:
• to reduce existing bullying problems among students
• to prevent the development of new bullying problems
• to achieve better peer relations at school
On October 15th, St. Monica School officially kicked-off the Olweus Program. The St. Monica School Student Council led an assembly that informed students of the program and its Catholic identity component. In the evening, a parent information program led by the school’s Bullying Prevention Committee (comprised of Guidance Counselor Missy Stewart; school Principal Maria Schram; 1st grade teacher Mary Barry; 4th grade teacher Mike Bradford; 4th grade teacher Patty O’Neil; Jr. High teacher Maribeth Naleid; Jr. High teacher Diane Shumaker; school parent Tony Schwartz; and our Olweus trainer, Jill Boyd) informed school parents of program components and the school’s implementation plan.
As an Exemplary Catholic school community, we bring this anti-bullying message to our children in the context of our faith. As St. Paul said to the Romans, “Let love be sincere, hate what is evil, hold onto what is good.”
God Bless,
Maria Schram, Principal
Patty O’Neil, Bullying Prevention Committee Member
This school year, St. Monica School teachers and staff received two days of training in the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program, or OBPP for short. OBPP is the most researched and best-known bullying prevention program available. Developed by Dan Olweus of Norway, the OBPP has over 35 years of research behind it and has been successfully implemented throughout the world in countries such as the United States, Canada, England, Mexico, Iceland, Germany, Sweden, Croatia, and Norway. We are blessed to have our school Guidance Counselor, Missy Stewart, and a number of staff members enthusiastically leading our implementation efforts of the OBPP Program.
To stop and to prevent bullying, it needs to be addressed at all levels of a student’s experience. Unlike a curriculum that only addresses bullying at the classroom level and for a limited period of time, OBPP addresses bullying at the school-wide, classroom, individual and community levels. Students receive a consistent, reinforced message.
The goals of the OBPP are:
• to reduce existing bullying problems among students
• to prevent the development of new bullying problems
• to achieve better peer relations at school
On October 15th, St. Monica School officially kicked-off the Olweus Program. The St. Monica School Student Council led an assembly that informed students of the program and its Catholic identity component. In the evening, a parent information program led by the school’s Bullying Prevention Committee (comprised of Guidance Counselor Missy Stewart; school Principal Maria Schram; 1st grade teacher Mary Barry; 4th grade teacher Mike Bradford; 4th grade teacher Patty O’Neil; Jr. High teacher Maribeth Naleid; Jr. High teacher Diane Shumaker; school parent Tony Schwartz; and our Olweus trainer, Jill Boyd) informed school parents of program components and the school’s implementation plan.
As an Exemplary Catholic school community, we bring this anti-bullying message to our children in the context of our faith. As St. Paul said to the Romans, “Let love be sincere, hate what is evil, hold onto what is good.”
God Bless,
Maria Schram, Principal
Patty O’Neil, Bullying Prevention Committee Member
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Bullying Prevention Program Presentation