Subtitle: Elementary Grade lessons and Activities That Teach Empathy, Friendship, and Respect. This userfriendly resource provides K-6 educators with fun, interactive lessons and activities that support students' safety and well being, promote healthy social - emotional development, and improves academic achievement. Using role plays and samples scripts that can be adapted to specific situations, the author illustrates 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.