• help them see that their silence makes aggressive students more powerful and contributes to the harm done to the target;
• model positive behavior for them through our own actions;
• protect them from retaliation;
• discourage them from confronting aggressive youth directly about their behavior in most situations, and instead, help them find a wide range of other interventions to use
• encourage them to tell adults about the cruel behavior they see;
• and help them find ways to reach out in friendship to targets of bullying and isolated peers.

We can do this in classroom meetings, in school assemblies, and in conversations with our own children.

Some middle school students wrote for advice about what they could do. Here is a letter to them

Bullying by teachers and other school staff.

Links- learn more about bullying prevention

Stopbullyingnow training for your school.

For more information about stopping bullying, see Stan's books Schools Where Everyone Belongs and Empowering Bystanders in Bullying Prevention