CyberSmart! Cyberbullying Awareness Curriculum
A NASP Partnership Working for You
NASP is
pleased to partner with CyberSmart! to bring to educators and parents the CyberSmart! Cyberbullying Awareness Curriculum, a positive
and empowering suite of K-12 lessons provided free to schools. These materials
can facilitate prevention of cyberbullying at the
classroom level, and help provide outreach to families and the community.
In
developing these lessons, CyberSmart! adopted an integrated approach, examining all current
research findings and using best practices from the fields of cyber security,
school violence prevention, and character education to affect behavioral
change. The new curriculum is designed to guide students to think and act
creatively and critically, defining the problems and issues themselves, and
thus “owning” them. Without this ownership, no behavioral change can occur.
A NASP Member Opportunity
We
encourage NASP members to share CyberSmart! Cyberbullying Awareness Curriculum with teachers
and administrators in your schools as part of your ongoing efforts to promote
bullying prevention and school safety. They offer an excellent opportunity to
provide a positive, practical resource that can benefit the entire student body
at no cost to you or the district.
NASP member and 2008 School Psychologist of the
Year John Lestino speaks on cyberbullying coming soon
NASP member and former Assistant Executive
Director Ted Feinberg discusses bullying prevention coming soon
About CyberSmart
CyberSmart! develops training and resources that foster 21st century skills to increase student engagement and prepare students to achieve in today's digital society. They offer online workshops for educators, as well as free classroom lessons for teachers, administrators, school mental health professionals, and multi-media and technology staff.
Other free
lessons available to educators include:
Related NASP Resources
Cyberbullying: What It Is and What We Can Do About It (CQ Article)
Keeping Children Safe From Online Sexual Victimization (CQ Article)
Keeping Children Safe on the Internet: Guidelines for Parents (Handout and Safety Contract)
Cyberbullying (Article for Secondary School Principals)
Cyberbullying: The New Form of Bullying (2008 Convention Handout)
Related Links
3-part article in the Los Angeles Times on cyberbullying:
Harvard study on cyberbullying
NASP Partnerships Work for You
NASP
partners on select initiatives with organizations who share our mission to
promote the positive learning and development of children and adolescents, and
in an effort to support the role of school psychologists in this mission.