Educators

Research has found that there are strong links between social skills and academic achievement, and that schools will be most successful in facilitating academic achievement when they integrate strategies to promote students' social, emotional, and academic learning.

The Promoting Positive Peer Relationships (P3R): Stories of Us – Bullying program is a unique series of film-based education resources for supporting students, educators and the broader community in addressing the problem of bullying in schools. The project has the support of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), along with a broad base of leading educators from across the country.

Building upon the unprecedented success of the Australian Stories of Us, the significantly expanded American program has begun with the middle school series – with the elementary and high school versions to follow.

The American P3R: Stories of Us – Bullying middle school program is composed of multiple resources, each built around professional films produced in collaboration with students. The four core components are:
(1) Classroom Resource,
(2) Professional Development Resource,
(3) Community Education Resource, and
(4) Make-You-Own-Film Resource.

Each resource is designed to be used either individually, or bundled as a more extensive P3R program. These programs include an Implementation Guide. The resources can also be used to complement other bullying prevention programs.

Online Previews of the two films at the heart of the P3R: Stories of Us – Bullying middle school program are now available.

For further information about these films, including the participating students' pages describing their experiences of bullying, and commenting on the film development and production process, visit: Film One and Film Two.