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“An Important Drop” in the Seattle School Bucket

Summary Researchers and policy makers from Great Britain visited WMS as part of a US study tour to discover what we were doing in the areas of prevention and intervention, specifically anti-bullying.

Author Louise Morpeth

Citation Prevention Action 12 May 2009

School principals in the US have as much autonomy as their counterparts in the UK but their choice of in-class prevention programs is restricted to those proven to work.

In the UK, freedom of choice has given some obscure and dubious inventions a foothold in the curriculum. In the US – and in Washington state – only the 11 that have made the Blueprints for Violence Prevention approved list can qualify.

Among them is The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program, developed by Dan Olweus in Bergen, Norway, 25 years ago in the aftermath of three suicides and a national campaign, and now an international brand. In the US, implementation has touched almost every State since impressive trial results in Philadelphia and South Carolina in the mid-1900s.

So what of the progress of school “systems change” on the ground in Seattle?

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Posted by Mr. Bilides on May 14, 2009. Filed under: Bullying • Counseling • Health • School Climate •

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