No More Bullies teaches, with dogs’ help, responsibility, compassion, self-control and integrity. Since its small launch five years ago, teachers and counsellors have become so convinced of the positive impact on kids’ behaviour that it’s booked into the 80-classroom maximum it can handle, and there’s a long waiting list of requests for next year.
The curriculum, developed by ex-teacher Jo Dean Hearn, humane education director at animal rescue group Wayside Waifs, is presented an hour a day for five days by trained volunteers — accompanied by irresistible canines.
The animals are the glue that helps the children stay focused and understand the message,
says Hearn. Children can easily identify with an animal. And it’s easy for them to transition when we ask them to consider how an animal feels (if ill treated) to how the kid sitting near them feels (if poorly treated)
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
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