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The second editions of the student guides are now complete and in the publishing pipeline. The new editions of What YOU Can Do About Bullying by Max and Zoey, for students in grades K–5, and All About Bullying, for students in grades 6–12, have been updated to use easier terms and definitions. In addition, the text has been…

Updated June 7, 2017. The CirclePoint team is currently revising What YOU Can Do About Bullying By Max & Zoey, the guide for students in grades 3–6, and All About Bullying, the guide for students in grades 6 and above. The revisions focus on two areas. First, abstract terms used in the guide are being replaced with concrete…

A new free resource is now available on the Materials page of the CirclePoint program website. The resource, the CirclePoint Quick-Counseling Guide, is designed to help educators, physicians, and others who become aware of a bullying problem to provide counseling to the bullied student and guidance to the student’s caregiver(s) on effective ways to solve…

The student component of the CirclePoint Bullying Prevention Program is being rolled out at the Warren Prescott K–8 School in Boston. In this step, each classroom teacher leads a discussion on bullying and the changes to school policy that the program will deliver. The discussion covers what bullying is, what students can do on their…

Ari Magnusson, the creator of the CirclePoint Bullying Prevention Program, has been designated a featured speaker on bullying prevention for the Massachusetts General Hospital Community Health Associates Stay in Shape life skills program offered at Boston-area schools for the 2016 – 2017 school year. The Massachusetts schools where the program will be offered include the…

The Global Presence, the community service arm of Parenting 2.0, has designated CirclePoint program creator Ari Magnusson as a “Global Presence Ambassador.” This designation recognizes the work of professionals around the globe who are passionate about nurturing a more dynamic and proactive narrative for human development—and specifically Life Skills—in their daily lives. Parenting 2.0 is…

Today is the official publication date of What YOU Can Do About Bullying By Max & Zoey, the CirclePoint comic book-style guide for students in grades K-6. To celebrate, we are giving away free copies to the first 50 principals or school guidance counselors who request one. Principals and counselors just need to use the…

CirclePoint program director Ari Magnusson has been invited by the Mass General Hospital Community Development division to speak about bullying at the Clark Avenue School in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on May 2. His presentation will include his own bullying story and that of a female friend to help illustrate the various aspects of dominance and relational…

The CirclePoint student guide, What YOU Can Do About Bullying By Max & Zoey, will be featured in the April issue of Kirkus Reviews magazine. The editors of the magazine selected the review out of hundreds of books they reviewed. Kirkus Reviews is a book review magazine sent to over 5,200 publishing industry professionals including…

Michele Davis, principal of the Warren Prescott K-8 School in the Boston Public School District, which is piloting the CirclePoint BPP, relayed today that teachers “love” Chain of Custody Awareness, one of the CirclePoint mechanisms. Chain of Custody Awareness is a notification process that makes all adults who are with a target and an aggressor…