Violence and Bullying Prevention Programs for K-12

A Peaceable Place K-12

Too Good for Violence

Character Education and Asset Development are at the core of TGFV-A Peaceable Place to provide students with the skills, knowledge, and attitudes they need for positive social development and supportive relationships.

The self-efficacy and interpersonal skills built into the course promote Self-Awareness and Social Awareness within the student to foster a healthy school climate:

Setting Reachable Goals
Making Responsible Decisions
Identifying and Managing Emotions
Effective Communication
Pro-social Peer Bonding

Students apply these interpersonal skills to guide appropriate behavior in social situations and to form relationships and meaningful connections, resolve problems, deescalate conflict, and manage bullying situations.

Paired and group activities foster participation, listening, and engagement to strengthen communication skills, emotional regulation, and positive peer interaction, helping schools create safer, more connected learning environments that support instructional time, classroom consistency, and student engagement.

A Peaceable Place supports schools through structured, developmentally appropriate prevention instruction that complements existing MTSS, PBIS, SEL, and student support initiatives.

Kindergarten Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5

Elementary students learn to differentiate feelings and actions, understand and practice respect between peers, and celebrate diversity. Students learn to manage bullying situations and choose peaceful ways to resolve conflict and manage stress and frustration.

At the elementary school level, additional skills and developmental topics build on the core self-efficacy and interpersonal skills set to broaden the student’s sense of hope for the future and confidence as well as promote social awareness and empathy skills. Problem solving skills and sorting skills are introduced to prepare young children to resolve disagreements and to compromise and find pro-social solutions to bullying situations. Additional concepts covered in the curriculum are tailored to the intellectual, cognitive, and social development of the student.

These additional concepts include:

Being a Peacemaker - Grades K-2
Creating a Peaceable Environment - Grades K-2
Problem Solving - Grades K-5
Celebrating Differences – Grades 1-5
Anger Management – Grades 1-5
Respect for Self and Others - Grades 2-5
Conflict Resolution – Grades 2-5
Identifying and Managing Bullying Situations – Grades 2-5

Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8

TGFV - A Peaceable Place develops and applies social and emotional learning skills for conflict resolution, bullying prevention, anger management, and respect for self and others. In middle school, students learn the negative consequences of aggressive behavior and practice healthy methods to manage stress and frustration.

Engaging, age-appropriate lessons use games, music, skits, and role-play to engage all students and give them multiple opportunities to practice these essential skills and apply them directly to their own lives.

Each grade level curriculum builds on the previous by continually developing skills and addressing common problems faced in middle school life teaching students how to manage situations in a positive and healthy way. Additional concepts in the program supplement and reinforce the self-efficacy and interpersonal skills concepts and are tailored to the intellectual, cognitive, and social development of the student.

These additional concepts include:

Influence of Media Portrayals of Violence - Grade 6
Influence of Peer Violence - Grade 7
Teen Dating Violence - Grade 8
Conflict Resolution - Grades 6-8
Anger Management - Grades 6-8
Respect for Self and Others - Grades 6-8
Identifying and Managing Bullying Situations - Grades 6-8

TGFV TGFD&V

TGFV - A Peaceable Place High School is a dynamic, experiential course designed to immerse students in the core social skill development they need to navigate the world they will enter after high school. The experiential learning design applies interactive games and activities to let the students try on and apply the self-efficacy and interpersonal skills and strategies in peer groups.

Students learn and practice essential Self-Awareness and Social-Awareness skills and then apply those skills to ready them to face the challenges they can foresee and the obstacles they can’t as they work to reaching their goals.

These additional concepts include: