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Programs

RESPECT programs consist of educational theatre presentations paired with panel or group discussions led by community professionals and our actor-educators. In talk-back sessions for elementary students, participants have the opportunity to try out their own solutions through role-playing. Programs for middle and high school students allow participants to submit questions anonymously for discussion during the talk-back session. Each adult training is 90 minutes and combines a research-based presentation with the use of theatre and role-play.

Preschool & Kindergarten

Puppy Pals

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This play focuses on helping, identifying emotions, and respecting diversity for people and animals. Students will learn how to make friends and how to "stop and think." Pending availability, students will receive a stuffed animal to practice the behaviors learned.

Intended Audience: Preschool & Kindergarten

Elementary School

Stop & Think

Program-StopThink

This play focuses on the identification of many bullying behaviors and prevention techniques. Students will learn how situations can change and how a person can become empowered if they "stop and think." This play includes scenes in which the students may suggest healthier behaviors for the characters to exercise impulse control to lead to a happy ending.

Intended Audience: Grades K-3

Fun & Games

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This play helps students identify bullying behaviors and prevention techniques. Students will learn about the importance and power of the bystander. Students are encouraged to respond respectfully to bullying behaviors as the target or bystander and to realize that what is "fun and games" for one person may be painful for another.

Intended Audience: Grades K-3

Spelling It Out

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This play demonstrates a classic model of bullying: progressing from teasing to taunting to threatening to physical violence. Students will learn to identify bullying behaviors and will learn about the awesome power of the bystander. During the talkback, students have the opportunity to practice techniques to stop and prevent bullying during a fun and safe role-play.

Intended Audience: Grades 4-6

Out of Bounds

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This play demonstrates a wide range of bullying behaviors, situations, and relationships. Students will learn how to identify bullying behaviors in the context of a variety of relationships, be they friendships or dating relationships. The goal is to educate healthy ways of defining and protecting personal boundaries in every relationship.

Intended Audience: Grades 4-6

Middle School

Scraps

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Developed at the request of students, this play focuses on social bullying, the bullying that can occur within friendships, or when relationships are used to hurt other people. Students will learn how to identify these subversive bullying behaviors and how to respond as the target or bystander.

Intended Audience: Middle School

Choices

Program-Choices

A menu play to cater to a school or organization, this play focuses on teen social issues. Choose three of the following seven scenes, specific to the school or organization's unique culture: Bullying, Teen Dating Violence, Alcohol, Drugs, Body Image, Self-Injurious Behavior, Suicide/Depression.

Intended Audience: Middle School

High School

Standing Up

Program-StandingUp

This play addresses bullying that uses gay slurs to hurt others. In this play we focus on the severe consequences this type of bullying can have on targets and those who may be questioning their own sexuality. It also focuses on the power bystanders can have in helping targets in these situations.

Intended Audience: High School

Reporting

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Based on true stories, this stylized play focuses on bullying and the tragic consequences that could occur. Students will learn how small actions can have big results, both positive and negative. They are encouraged to report bullying behaviors and to take on an active bystander-role in the problem-solving process with adults.

Intended Audience: High School

Cracked, But Not Broken

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This play focuses on teen dating violence. Students will learn how to identify warning signs of abusive relationships and how to use local resources to help them-selves or their peers. A local professional with expertise in the area of domestic violence will sit on the panel for the talkback session as a physical representation of who they can go to for help.

Intended Audience: High School

Adults

Parent & Teacher Training

This highly interactive training stresses role-playing as a problem-solving technique and the need to address bullying behaviors immediately, consistently, firmly, and respectfully. RESPECT uses their unique role-playing approach to present problems in improvised settings while blurring the wall between actor and spectator. The audience is encouraged to stop the scene and practice solutions. This training also covers research-based information about bullying, how and why it occurs, and ways to address it. Sessions are tailored to each audience and last about 90 minutes. Parent training addresses common concerns, including if your child is being bullied, if your child is the bully, and if your child is a concerned bystander. Teacher training talks to teachers about similar issues in classroom settings and the teacher-student relationship.

Kids Who Bully

This session will examine the who and why of students who bully. This will focus not only on students who bully other students, but also students who bully adults.

Mean Girls

How can such sweet, young girls treat their friends so horribly? This session will pose questions about "Mean Girl Syndrome" or relational aggression.

Bullying Online

What happens when the bullying that used to take place in the schoolyard moves to the world wide web? How is it different? How is it the same? And just what can we, as adults, do about it?

How to Talk With Teachers

You find out your child is being bullied in school. Practice the best way to work with the teachers and staff at your child's school to find a peaceful resolution.

Talking With Kids About Dating & Sex

Prepare yourself for one of the most uncomfortable, but necessary conversations you will ever have with your child.

Effects of Violence On Children

Make the connection between domestic violence, animal abuse, bullying, and other unhealthy behaviors and see, with a child's eyes, how witnessing these events can affect a person's emotional and mental well being.

When Adults Bully

What happens when we encounter bullying with our adult friends or even in the workplace?