001We came together to help people like know that we don't want hate speech spreading and we don't want to make people feel uncomfortable [music] or bad about themselves because they're different or they are not included in something. >> We decided that we would uh do a lesson on pro-social behaviors and hate [music] speech um for the sixth grade class. And so it's approximately 300 students. [music] the office of diversity, equity, inclusion joined me in facilitating those lessons. >> We all made posters about like [music] why you shouldn't be a bully and like how it affects you. And then we all shared I wrote an example of hate speech and [music] I wrote how it affects a person like it can lower a person's self-confidence and self-esteem. [music] The middle one is basically portraying that kindness
002is kind of like a vaccine for the harmful behaviors that other people spread. >> We also wrote to [music] be kind, don't hate, love your differences. >> We wanted students to create an infographic based [music] on particular scenarios that happen in real life. And we were looking for students to actually practice pro-social [music] skills in action. When students feel safe and they feel like they belong, they perform better. They become uh better citizens of society. And so we want to teach students how to create social harmony so they can be excellent in everything that they do. >> We're trying to like stop bullying and like make people like realize that it's not a good thing. >> We could either tell a trusted adult or we could come up to the bully and ask them to
003politely stop. So, we're basically talking about bullying and being an upstander, not a bystander. An upstander is um just like going and get help for the people who's being targeted. And a bystander means just staying there and doing nothing. >> Don't just stand by while people are getting bullied. It's important so other people don't get sad. I feel like it's really important to think about how it affects the person because just saying like rude things can really like make [music] somebody upset. >> You don't really know what people are going through. So when you like bully people, it hurts their feelings and then you might not know what it like [music] could do to them. It's important because sometimes when you're thinking about something that makes you sad, you can't like cooperate or you can't
004pay attention to something. And then sometimes you don't want to go to school because someone might be bullying you or hurting you. Bullying is like really not nice and I've experienced it a bit. And my message would be that as much joy that you might find from bullying, it's not fun for anybody else. So like you should stop and like know your consequences. Um, I just want people to know that like you're not alone. There's other people who have had that done to them and it's a terrible thing that no [music] one should ever be put to go through and it just hurts and targets and offends other people. >> We notice [music] that students are telling a trusted adult when it happens. We know that we can't mitigate all bullying, but we know that
005students have the skills to interrupt it, to tell a trusted adult. So students are actually using those skills and applied it in their everyday life. >> Don't be a bystander, be an upstander.