S.A.B.B. - Students Against Being Bullied©

I went about getting my program started by doing research, I had lived being bullied, and I had seen personally how it could affect one’s life, but I wanted to make sure I knew as much as I could possibly know about the issue before diving straight into it. Now, I researched all aspects of bullying for just about 4 months straight, and then I started to develop my program. I started with reporting methods, bully boxes for the younger grades, and text tip lines for the older grades, I than added the fact that students needed support, so I came up with S.A.B.B. Support Meetings, that I would run. I then asked what students wanted and they all said they wanted a safe place to just sit in the morning. So, I created the S.A.B.B. Lab, or S.A.B.B.’s Safe Room. (All I just mentioned are things in Phase One), I completed the outline for phase one, “Student Involvement” by the third week of September of 2010, and the second phase, which included my unique anti—bullying presentations that I do and two strategies, one used to help the victims, and the other to further reprimand repeat offenders, and I had this done by November. Phase three includes parent assemblies I do to educate adults on the dangers and affects, as well as the signs and the symptoms of bullying. So, now it was November 2010 and I had everything planned, I then went to a Guidance counselor, she loved the idea and the program, we scheduled a meeting in the beginning of December with the Administration, by the second week of December I pitched the idea to the Superintendent who loved it and put us in for approval at the January Board Meeting. S.A.B.B. was approved on the 17th of January, 2011, and everything was paid for, the launch assemblies that I did covered all 1,200 students enrolled in my high school, and occurred in March…. The program has now been in for 9 months, and the administration call it an extreme success. I had this program planned and up and running in a matter a 7 months, the fastest moving approval and program in my high school’s history. And, with each day more ideas come to me, and I work on new activities and strategies to make my program that much more success, because the biggest room is the room for improvement.