For K–12 Districts & Schools
Students don’t need another assembly.
They need a plan.
A Pathway to S.T.R.I.D.E. is a six-session program built around one documentary film — teaching students to recognize the harm they currently walk past, and giving every one of them, regardless of social confidence, a real way to act.
- WCAG 2.1 AA
- FERPA & PPRA-aware
- COPPA-aware
- Evidence-based design
The Problem
One assembly doesn’t change a hallway.
of students ages 12–18 reported being bullied at school in the 2021–22 school year.
Source: National Center for Education Statistics, School Crime SupplementAnd that figure only captures the harm students recognize enough to name. Most bullying-prevention programs are a single assembly or a single video — and research on one-time exposure is consistent: the effect is real, but it fades fast.
Students leave knowing bullying is wrong. They don’t leave with a practiced, repeatable way to act when they actually see it — and neither do the adults around them. Durlak et al., 2011
What’s Different
Legacy SEL vs. A Pathway to S.T.R.I.D.E.
A one-shot assembly or video screening
A six-session sequenced arc with active rehearsal
“Stand up to bullies” — one heroic mode
Three tiers, so every student has a realistic move
Focused on overt bullying
Built to close the gap on subtle, digital, and relational harm
Students report, and nothing visibly happens
A No-Wrong-Door adult standard, so a report goes somewhere
Accessibility and privacy left to the district
WCAG 2.1 AA and FERPA/PPRA awareness from day one
Bring this to your next board meeting.
No price sheets, no pressure — just a real conversation about your building.
The Approach
From bystander to upstander, one hallway at a time.
The film is the anchor — not the whole program. It sits inside a six-session, S.A.F.E. sequence: Sequenced, Active, Focused, Explicit. Every skill is taught in plain language, then rehearsed, not just watched once.
The six-session walk
The 6–8 band is the fully piloted master template. K–5 and 9–12 adapt the same architecture with age-appropriate language and scenarios — the video itself doesn’t change.
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01
Naming the Harm
Students learn to spot the exclusion, silent pressure, and digital harm most adults miss.
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02
Why It Hurts
The neuroscience of social pain, so the stakes land as fact — not melodrama.
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03
The Screening
A guided viewing of the anchor film, with a built content warning and a quiet, non-shaming exit.
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04
The Spectrum of Action
Students rehearse three concrete ways to step in, until noticing and acting become one reflex.
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05
Reading the Room
Without naming names, students map where it actually happens in their own building.
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06
Cementing the Norm
A personal if-then plan and a class-wide norm built to outlast the unit itself.
The Skill
Every student gets a move that fits them.
Most programs ask for one heroic, high-visibility action — and lose every student who isn’t comfortable with confrontation. This gives everyone a dignified, doable option.
Direct Action
Visible, in the moment — for the student who’s ready to act openly, right then.
Indirect Action
A private, later check-in. Zero social risk, real emotional impact.
The Safety Net
Quietly loop in a trusted adult, and let the system carry the rest of the weight.
“Peers are present for most bullying incidents — and one peer stepping in can de-escalate it within about ten seconds.”
The 10-Second Rule · Hawkins, Pepler & Craig, 2001Beyond the Classroom
Built for all four CASEL settings.
Most competitors cover one or two. This is built to cover all four.
Classroom
The six-session unit itself, delivered by a teacher, counselor, or advisory lead.
School-wide
De-identified insights feed a student-led norms campaign; the adult standard applies building-wide.
Family
A take-home for each session, deliberately built to take under five minutes.
Community
Room for a local partner — a youth organization or counselor — to co-sign the building norm.
See a full session walkthrough.
We’ll walk your team through a real session, script and all.
Evidence & Research
Built on research. Honest about what’s proven.
“Evidence-based” and “proven-efficacious” are different claims, and we’re careful not to blur them. The curriculum design is grounded in published, peer-reviewed research. A program-specific efficacy claim is a separate thing — one that requires pilot data, which is exactly what our evaluation instrument is built to generate.
The research base
Eisenberger, Lieberman & Williams · Science, 2003
Social exclusion activates the same brain regions as physical pain — this is the biological basis for Session 2, “Why It Hurts.”
Hawkins, Pepler & Craig · Social Development, 2001
Peers are present for most bullying incidents, and a single peer stepping in can often de-escalate the moment within about ten seconds — the basis for the 10-Second Rule taught in Session 4.
Durlak et al. · 2011
A meta-analysis of SEL programming showing that sequenced, active, focused, explicit instruction outperforms one-off exposure — the direct basis for the S.A.F.E. framework the whole program is built on.
Wolke & Lereya · 2015
Long-term outcome research showing the effects of childhood bullying can still be measurable decades later — the “why this matters” behind the program’s urgency.
Honest Evaluation
How we measure this program
A matched pre/post instrument, administered before Session 1 and again two weeks after Session 6, tracks shifts in recognition, self-efficacy, and intention to act — using the same items at both points, so the change score carries the evidence, not a leading question.
Students are matched across administrations using a self-generated code they build themselves — never a name, never a roster cross-reference.
The claim ceiling, stated plainly
Early results should be read as shifts in self-reported attitudes and intentions — not as verified behavioral change. A stronger behavioral claim requires a comparison or waitlist group, or administrative-data linkage, which we offer as an optional evaluation upgrade for districts that want it.
We’d rather sell you a program that says this honestly than one that oversells and doesn’t hold up under scrutiny.
Pilot Results
[Case study pending] — Pilot case studies will appear here as our district partners complete their evaluation window, with their explicit permission.
Ask about our evaluation design.
We’ll walk your assessment office through the full instrument and the honest claim ceiling behind it.
Accessibility & Compliance
Compliance is a feature here, not a footnote.
Districts pay a real cost — in procurement delay and remediation — when accessibility and privacy are bolted on after the fact. We built them in from the first draft. This page is the plain-language summary; the full documentation is available to your team once we’re in conversation.
Accessibility
WCAG 2.1 AA, by design
Synchronized captions, a full transcript, and an audio-description track. An accessible, non-shaming Safe Exit for the screening session. The production spec follows a strict no-flash, no-strobe photosensitivity protocol (WCAG 2.3.1), verified against PEAT before final release.
A VPAT is available for your 504 coordinator’s procurement review.
Student Privacy
FERPA, PPRA & COPPA-aware
We never request or hold student names, IDs, or other identifying information. Pre/post surveys match responses using a code students generate themselves from non-identifying facts — never cross-referenced against a roster.
Model notice language is provided for both passive and active parental-consent states, since the standard varies by state and your counsel makes the final call.
Safeguarding
A built disclosure protocol
Content designed to surface honest reflection will, sometimes, surface a real disclosure. A staff response protocol — validate, route to a designated counselor, document — means it’s never missed or left to chance.
A brief staff orientation on the protocol is recommended before the screening session.
Loop in your 504 coordinator.
We’ll walk them through the full VPAT and data-governance documentation directly.
For Districts
Built to clear procurement, not just the classroom.
Packaging is built around how districts actually adopt a program: prove it in one building, then scale. Pricing is a conversation, not a page with numbers on it — every tier below ends in a real conversation with us, not a checkout link.
Packaging tiers
Tier 01
Pilot
Prove it in one building before you commit further.
- The 6–8 proof-of-concept unit
- Full facilitator scripts & family materials
- Pre/post evaluation instrument included
- One building, one grade band
Tier 02
Building
Full K–12 rollout materials for a single building.
- K–5, 6–8, and 9–12 grade-band materials
- Facilitator certification & initial training
- Family and community engagement layer
- Building-wide No-Wrong-Door staff standard
Tier 03
District
Multi-building licensing with a stronger evidence story.
- Everything in Building, at district scale
- Facilitator certification program, annual refresher
- Premium evaluation add-on (comparison-group design)
- Custom scenario alignment to district culture
The #1 Objection
“We don’t have time” — reframed.
Total seat time across the full sequence is roughly 90–120 minutes spread over a month. Three delivery models mean it fits time your school already has:
Micro-dose
Six 15–20 minute sessions, once or twice a week.
Advisory-embed
Rides existing advisory or homeroom time — near-zero new minutes.
Compressed
Four touches, for the tightest schedules.
Pilot-to-Scale
Start with one band. Standardize on one vendor.
The 6–8 band is fully piloted and validated as the proof-of-concept. K–5 and 9–12 adapt the same architecture, so a district can pilot small and grow into a single K–12 vendor rather than stitching together separate programs by grade band.
Add-ons, as you’re ready
- —Premium efficacy evaluation (comparison group + admin-data linkage)
- —Custom scenario development matched to your district’s culture
- —Family-engagement webinar license
- —K–5 and 9–12 expansion packs
Let’s talk pricing.
Tell us your building size and grade bands, and we’ll bring packaging options that fit.
About
Why “S.T.R.I.D.E.”
Six words, chosen deliberately, because a bullying-prevention program built on one word — “kindness” — asks too little of students who already know kindness is good. It doesn’t tell them what to do with what they see.
The pillars
Strength
The courage a small, private action still takes.
Trust
That a report goes somewhere, and the system holds up its end.
Respect
For students’ intelligence — no stock-photo moralizing.
Integrity
Claiming exactly what the evidence supports, and not one inch more.
Dignity
A doable move for every student, not just the socially confident ones.
Empathy
Understanding why noticing harm is hard before asking anyone to act on it.
The Thesis
Most students aren’t bystanders by choice. They’re bystanders by recognition gap.
Legacy SEL tells kids to “be kind.” That’s not the part they’re missing. What they’re missing is the ability to see the subtle, modern version of harm — the group chat someone got quietly dropped from, the joke that’s really an exclusion — and a practiced, low-risk way to respond to it that fits who they actually are.
We built this the way we’d want it built for a school we cared about: honest about what’s proven, serious about privacy and access, and designed so a kid who’d never confront anyone out loud still has a real, dignified move.
“The hallway didn’t change. I did. So can you.”
Collins, from “The Two Hallways”“The Two Hallways” is produced by J. Collins Restoration Group LLC. Its four student characters — Javon, Gina, Marie, and Collins — are composite, AI-generated, and fictional. No real students are depicted.
Meet the program before you meet with your board.
We’re glad to walk your team through the film, the curriculum, and the evidence behind it.
Get Started
Let’s find 20 minutes.
No price sheets, no pressure — just a real conversation about your building, led by someone who’ll answer straight questions straight.
Thank you — we’ll be in touch.
A member of our team will reach out within one business day to schedule your demo.
What happens next
We respond within one business day.
A real person, not a queue.
A 20–30 minute walkthrough.
The film, the six sessions, and the compliance posture — whatever your team needs to see.
Packaging that fits your building.
No price list up front — just options sized to what you’re actually trying to do.
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