Olweus Bullying Prevention Program Series

Class Meetings That Matter

by Marlene Snyder, Jane Riese, Susan P. Limber, and Nancy Mullin

Published 1 January 2009

Developed by the authors of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program, this easy-to-use manual provides high school teachers and students with almost an entire year's worth of engaging, thought-provoking ideas and topics to conduct meaningful class meetings.

Topic categories include:

Building a Positive School and Classroom Climate
Confronting Bullying
Building Positive Relationships
Understanding and Managing Feelings
Respecting Differences
Communication and Technology, and

Class Meetings and Individual Intervention

by Vicki Crocker Flerx, Susan P. Limber, Nancy Mullin, Dan Olweus, and Jane Riese

Published 15 February 2009

This title features - Read the Introduction, Who Should Use, What is Olweus Bullying Prevention Program, and Part 1: Conducting Class Meetings. When bullying occurs, are you able to intervene immediately and effectively? This two-DVD set and facilitator guide give you the knowledge, skills, and confidence to conduct class meetings about bullying and to intervene when bullying occurs. The DVDs and facilitator guide: demonstrate effective classroom meetings with elementary and middle-school students; show you how to intervene when bullying occurs and how to follow up with students and parents; enhance the fidelity of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program; and, provide you with a resource for teacher training. The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program or OBPP for short, is the most researched and probably best-known bullying prevention program available today. Developed by Dan Olweus of Norway, one of the co-authors of this guide, OBPP has over thirty-five years of research behind it and has been implemented throughout the world, in countries such as the United States, Canada, England, Mexico, Iceland, Germany, Sweden, and Croatia, in addition to Norway.