Coaching Teachers in Bullying Detection and Intervention

Summary

The investigators' overall objective is to demonstrate the efficacy of the Bullying Classroom Check-Up (BCCU) on elementary aged students' aggressive and bullying behaviors, teacher practices, and student and teacher relationships. The investigators' principal hypothesis is that the BCCU will improve students' aggression and bullying behaviors and their perceptions of the school climate and relationships in the building as well as teacher practices.

Conditions

• Intervention
• Control

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Bullying Classroom Check-Up (BCCU)

BCCU professional development (PD) modules will be provided to all staff in intervention schools as part of their standard, school-approved professional development practices to provide knowledge and awareness for bullying identification, prevention, and intervention. In addition, consented 3rd-5th grade teachers will participate in the BCCU intervention. The coaching follows the original Classroom Check-Up model (Reinke, Herman, \& Sprick, 2011), embedding 5 steps (i.e., assessment of the classroom, feedback to teacher, goal setting and plan, ongoing coaching and guided practice in the TeachLivE© mixed-reality simulator \[developed at the University of Central Florida (UCF); Dieker, Hynes, Hughes, \& Smith, 2008\], and self-monitoring) and utilizing motivational interviewing (Miller \& Rollnick, 2012) to empower teacher practice change.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Virginia

  collaborator OTHER

• Sheppard Pratt Health System

  collaborator OTHER

• Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

  collaborator NIH

• Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Elise Pas, PhD · Johns Hopkins University

• Tracy Waasdorp, PhD · Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

8 Years

Max Age

99 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2021-06-01

Primary Completion

2026-03-27

Completion

2026-03-27

Countries

• United States

Study Locations