Choose an outcome
Anchor the month to a behavior students can understand, such as safe bystander action or knowing how to report.
Bullying Prevention Month Hub
Bullying Prevention Month Planning Hub
Use October to launch year-round bullying prevention—not a one-month slogan
Bullying Prevention Month can focus attention, but lasting value comes from what the school continues afterward. Build October around clear outcomes, an engaging assembly and scheduled reinforcement through the year.
Overview
A Practical Part of Schoolwide Prevention
Plan Bullying Prevention Month around an anti-bullying school speaker, staff alignment, student leadership and meaningful year-round follow-up.
Core Priorities
Build a Stronger Bullying Prevention Plan
Use these focus areas to connect day-to-day practice with the shared message of an anti-bullying school speaker.
Sequence activities
Prepare staff first, introduce student language, host the assembly and then practice the message in classrooms.
Schedule continuation
Place follow-up checkpoints on the calendar before October ends.
Use Now
Bullying Prevention Month Hub Practical Tools
Read, print or copy these school-ready on-page resources. Checklist progress is saved in this browser.
On-page guideBullying Prevention Month School Action Plan
Use four focused weeks to launch habits that continue throughout the year.View guide
Week 1: Awareness
- Teach age-appropriate differences among conflict, unkind behavior and bullying using school policy language.
- Introduce trusted adults and reporting routes in classrooms and family communication.
- Brief staff on a consistent response phrase and referral process.
Week 2: Student voice
- Gather private, non-identifying input about belonging and less-supported locations.
- Invite students to suggest realistic inclusion improvements.
- Share what the school heard and which action it will take.
Week 3: Upstander behavior
- Practice safe choices through grade-appropriate fictional scenarios.
- Include direct help, distraction, leaving the audience, supporting afterward and adult reporting.
- Address group chats and the harm caused by forwarding or reacting.
Week 4: School-wide commitment
- Adopt one observable commitment for classrooms, common areas and online spaces.
- Publish 30-, 60- and 90-day follow-up dates.
- Celebrate participation without pressuring students to disclose personal experiences.
Continue all year
- Revisit reporting and upstander choices after breaks and transitions.
- Review student input and staff observations each quarter.
- Treat October as a launch point—not the only month for bullying prevention.
Interactive checklistBullying Prevention Month Planning Checklist
Coordinate a purposeful, accessible month without relying on slogans alone.Open checklist
Plan and sustain
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Connect the Resource to a Grade-Specific Program
Intermediate Anti-Bullying Assembly
Intermediate students learn to recognize the different forms of bullying, to intervene safely as bystanders, and to report without fear. The program shifts attention toward the majority of students who want bullying to stop and shows them practical ways to help.
Middle School Anti-Bullying Assembly
Middle school is where social dynamics get complicated and where bullying moves onto phones. This assembly meets students where they are, with a high-energy presentation on cyberbullying, digital citizenship and the courage to intervene.
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Action Plan
Four Practical Next Steps
Adapt these steps to school policy, student needs and the grade-specific bullying prevention program you select.
- Step 1
Form a small cross-role planning team.
- Step 2
Book the anti-bullying school speaker early and confirm grade groupings.
- Step 3
Connect every spirit activity to a specific prevention purpose.
- Step 4
Publish a November-through-spring reinforcement calendar.
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Connected Anti-Bullying Resources
Move between planning, school roles and prevention topics without losing the central goal: a safer, better-prepared school community.
Assembly Planning Center
A step-by-step planning center for U.S. schools booking an anti-bullying school speaker and preparing a useful bullying prevention assembly.
Principal Resource Center
A principal-focused center for selecting an anti-bullying school speaker, aligning staff, planning an assembly and sustaining clear expectations.
Student Leadership Resources
Student leadership ideas that extend an anti-bullying school assembly through peer inclusion, bystander action and adult-supported school initiatives.
School Climate Hub
School climate guidance that helps leaders connect an anti-bullying school speaker with consistent expectations, student voice and ongoing prevention.
Frequently Asked Questions
Questions About Bullying Prevention Month Hub
When is Bullying Prevention Month in the United States?
Bullying Prevention Month is observed in October. Schools can use it as a visible launch point while maintaining prevention work throughout the year.
When should a school book an October anti-bullying assembly?
Schools should begin as early as practical because October dates can be in demand. Confirm audience groups, schedule constraints and follow-up goals during booking.
Bring an Anti-Bullying School Speaker to Your School
Pair these resources with a grade-specific assembly, teacher training or parent presentation built around practical bullying prevention.