PAYINGTRIBUTE - Operation Respect

that students need to combat bullying and build a
strong school community. In this project, Operation
Respect will work with educators in the selected
schools to make teaching social responsibility a
core practice so that young people develop the
positive attitudes, empathy and skills they need to
create respectful environments.
Operation Respect will provide the DLAM materials
along with concurrent student and staff development
sessions at each of the participating schools.
The primary venues for this project are in-school
classes and workshops with students and staff focusing
on: defining the problems; reviewing guidelines
for intervention, including teaching strategies
for targets and bystanders; implementing positive
discipline strategies; and developing a comprehensive
school-wide bullying prevention program.
Operation Respect will provide assembly programs
and parent workshops to engage the entire school
communities in this initiative.
Since its inception, Operation Respect has provided
over 150,000 copies of DLAM to educators
and administrators throughout the United States
and the world. In 2007, Operation Respect disseminated
12,000 copies of the program. Approximately
10,000 requests were processed through
the Operation Respect website and distributed free
of charge courtesy of the McGraw-Hill Companies.
The remaining 2,000 were disseminated through
the Operation Respect office, professional development
workshops, education associations and
conferences.
Operation Respect continues to offer professional
development workshops to provide educators with
the skills and confidence they need to launch
DLAM successfully in their schools and communities.
To date, over 40,000 educators have participated
in these workshops. In 2007, Operation Respect
trained over 1,000 educators in the United
States, Canada and Hong Kong to implement
DLAM in schools, summer camps and after-school
programs. Additionally, a select group of educators
in Hong Kong were chosen to participate in followup
training to give them the skills they need to
provide ongoing guidance and staff development
support for educators implementing the DLAM
program. Operation Respect also provided Respect
for All workshops for over 1,000 educators from
middle schools and high schools throughout New
York City.