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Programs for Students & Assemblies

(a)  anti-bullying student programming for individual schools (as part of our comprehensive K-12 program) and

(b) positive, state-wide events which reinforce pro-social behaviors  (K-12 Contests & Youth Summit). 

**This page only describes the in-school student programming which is part of the K-12 Anti-Bullying Program.

Several principles guide what we offer for student programming:

1. Students must be involved, in an empowering way, in any significant anti-bullying effort at a school;
2. Because bullies at schools are often high-social-status children (i.e., "popular"), it is students who must be aware enough to realize that bullying behavior is not desirable and should not be emulated;
3. Elementary aged students (grade 6 and below) are often emotionally connected with their primary classroom teacher, and thus best able to have their awareness raised by that teacher;
4. Older students (pre-teen and teenage) are often best able to learn from high-status peers who model positive social behaviors, and who model a distaste for bullying and abusive behaviors;
5. Children of all ages are generally very enthusiastic about ending bullying and the abuse they see between students;
6. Ongoing, continuous programs -- even low-key ones -- are preferable to one-time programs such as assemblies;
7. However, assemblies can be very useful for raising interest and for beginning or continuing interest in a campaign of behavior change.

What does MARC offer for Student Programming?

For Elementary Aged Students, we opt to train classroom teachers to use easy, effective methods to engage students, to educate them, and to raise their awareness about bullying.  This classroom technique ("Discussion Time") is not a curriculum per se, but a method that can be used to deliver other bullying prevention curriculums or simply used as a stand-alone. 

For Middle and High School Students, we send trained college students (MARC Student Facilitators) to your school to train a hand-picked leadership group in conceiving, developing, and leading their own program ideas to stop bullying in their own school.  This is a very popular aspect of our program and one that has stood out in our outcomes research.  MARC assists the school is assembling their student leadership group (it must be a diverse group, not one "clique", not only "good" students, and may often include students who sometimes bully but whom have real leadership potential).  The school must assign a supervisor/advisor/coordinator to the group and MARC will send out our trained Student Facilitators. 

**CLICK HERE TO SEE A VIDEO DESCRIPTION AND EXAMPLE OF OUR STUDENT FACILITATION PROCEDURE***

What about Assemblies?

MARC does offer student assemblies about Bullying and Cyberbullying.  It is important to note, however, that we do strongly encourage schools to think about programs beyond using "only" assemblies.  Requests as taken on a first-come, first-serve basis.  Requests for a MARC assembly may be sent to AMYatMARC@gmail.com.    There is no cost.

**TO SEE A LIST OF THE ASSEMBLIES WE OFFER CLICK HERE**