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                            Funding & Awards
 Coaching teachers in detection and intervention related to bullying
Award Information
Awardee
              The Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia
Award #
              2015-CK-BX-0008
Funding Category
              Competitive
Location
                    Charlottesville, VA
Congressional District
              5
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2015
Total funding (to date)
              $999,952
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY 15 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2015, $999,952)
Statement of the Problem: Bullying is highly prevalent, particularly in urban settings, and negatively impacts individuals directly involved, bystanders, and the broader school climate. Given the majority of bullying occurs in the classroom context, classroom teachers are crucial for prevention programing, yet they often struggle to correctly identify bullying and effectively intervene. This proposal seeks to assist teachers by integrating an evidence-based teacher coaching model called the Classroom Check-Up (CCU) with an innovative, highly transportable training simulator (TeachLivE). The ultimate goals of this strategy are to increase teachers detection and effective intervention with bullying behaviors, in turn reducing the overall levels of bullying and improving safety and school climate. This adapted strategy will be specifically tailored to meet the needs of urban, minority youth living in low-SES communities.  

Subjects: We will work with 95 teachers (i.e., 15 for development and 80 for piloting) in middle schools serving urban, low-SES communities outside of Baltimore, Maryland (i.e., Anne Arundel County). 

Partnerships: This proposal builds upon a 15-year partnership between the University of Virginia, Johns Hopkins University, Sheppard Pratt Health System, and the Maryland State Department of Education. Through this partnership, the researchers have adapted the CCU and integrated it with TeachLivE in other Maryland schools. 

Research Design and Methods: The primary objectives are to 1) Develop, through an iterative process, the Bullying Classroom Check-Up (BCCU) integrated coaching and guided practice strategy that will aid teachers in detecting and effectively intervening with bullying behaviors; 2) Determine the feasibility and acceptability of the BCCU; and 3) Pilot test the BCCU using a small-scale randomized controlled trial (RCT) to determine its promise as an evidence-based strategy for reducing bullying and increasing safety in the classroom.  Outcomes will be assessed through classroom and teacher observations, teacher survey reports, and students survey reports of bullying and safety using previously-validated measures. 

Analysis: Objective 1 uses teacher and student focus groups and rapid prototyping to adapt and modify the approach. Objective 2 uses mixed methods to ensure that the BCCU is valid, feasible, and acceptable to urban, minority youth and their teachers.  Objective 3 uses multilevel modeling to assess impacts on a range of student- and teacher-level outcomes.

Products: Products include a CCU implementation manual with all adapted materials (e.g., interviews, classroom ecology checklist, feedback forms); peer-reviewed and practitioner-oriented research summaries; and the NIJ required reporting and archived data files (e.g., surveys, observations). 

This project contains a research and/or development component, as defined in applicable law.

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Grant-Funded Publications
        
                      Examining the Psychometrics and Characteristics of the Assessing School Settings: Interactions of Students and Teachers
                  Anti-Bullying Intervention for Teachers Shows Positive, Short-Term Outcomes
                  Coaching Teachers in Detection and Intervention Related to Bullying
                  Coaching Teachers to Detect, Prevent, and Respond to Bullying Using Mixed Reality Simulation: An Efficacy Study in Middle Schools
                  Preparing Preservice Teachers to Manage Behavior Problems in the Classroom: The Feasibility and Acceptability of Using a Mixed-Reality Simulator
                  Preparing Pre-Service Teachers To Manage Behavior Problems in the Classroom: The Feasibility and Acceptability of Using a Mixed-Reality Simulator
                  Coaching Teachers in Bullying Detection and Intervention
                  The New Frontier: Leveraging Innovative Technologies To Prevent Bullying

  
Date Created: September 29, 2015
    
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