Bully Prevention

Second Step is our SEL Curriculum and is designed to foster social skills with students and prevent conflict as well. 

A Bully is defined as “an overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.” Bully Prevention is taught with a Second Step curriculum within Dos Rios’ Positive Behavior Support system, and is taken very seriously.

All students are taught a variety of problem solving techniques including Stop, Walk and Talk and Kelso’s choices. Dos Rios staff members are committed to preventing bullying from occurring.

It is important for students and families to know the difference between bullies and friends who get mad at one another over a disagreement. When both parties harm the other person, it is a conflict. When someone intimidates another person using their power (size, social, knowledge), it is considered bullying. When someone repeatedly bothers another and encourages others to bother that person, it is bullying.