Too Good for Violence promotes character values, social-emotional skills, and healthy beliefs of elementary and middle school students. The program includes seven lessons per grade level for elementary school (K–5) and nine lessons per grade level for middle school (6–8). All lessons are scripted and engage students through role-playing and cooperative learning games, small group activities, and classroom discussions. Students are encouraged to apply these skills to different contexts. Too Good for Violence also includes optional parental and community involvement elements.

 Second Grade Lessons

1. Introducing a Peaceable Place - This lesson promotes respect, cooperation, caring, and fairness.
2. Getting to Know Others - This lesson promotes respect and cooperation.
3. Expressing Feeling -This lesson promotes honesty and self-discipline
4. Getting Along with Others - This lesson promotes respect, self-discipline and cooperation.
5. Recognizing and handling anger - This lesson promotes self-discipline.
6. Staying on the trail to a Peaceful Place - This lesson promotes caring, respect, responsibility.
7. Celebrating Our Success - This lesson promotes Cooperation, self-discipline, and respect.

Fourth Grade Lessons

1. The Good News and the Bad News about Conflict - This lessons promotes caring and respect
2. Respecting Differences - This lesson promotes respect, cooperation. and fairness.
3. Traveling - This lesson promotes cooperation and honesty.
4. Storm Warnings: Escalation and De-escalation - This lesson promotes self-discipline
5. Food for Thought: Bullies and Targets - This lesson promotes: courage, responsibility, fairness, caring.
6. Entertainment Today: Cooperation and Competition - This lesson promotes cooperation and respect.
7. Celebrating Our Success - This lesson promotes cooperation and respect. 

Fifth Grade Lessons

1. Building Bridges - This lesson promotes cooperation and respect.
2. Connect with Respect - This lesson promotes respect and fairness.
3. Conflict Strategies - This lesson promotes self-discipline, responsibility, fairness, cooperation and honesty.
4. Work Together to Work Things Out - This lesson promotes self-discipline, cooperation. caring, respect, fairness, responsibility.
5. Bully Busters - This lesson promotes caring, courage, cooperation and responsibility.
6. Bullies, Targets and Witnesses - This lesson promotes caring, courage, cooperation and responsibility.
7. Communication Quest - This lesson promotes cooperation and respect.

Sixth Grade Lessons

1. Approaches to Conflict - This lesson promotes cooperation and fairness.
2. The ABC's of Solving Conflict - This lesson promotes cooperation, respect and fairness.
3. An Experiment with Anger - This lesson promotes self-discipline, responsibility, and respect.
4. Down the Conflict Escalator - This lesson promotes self-discipline cooperation and respect.
5. Communication Styles - This lesson promotes honesty and respect.
6. No Bullying This lesson promotes caring, fairness, courage, responsibility, and respect.
7. Here Comes the Judge! - This lesson promotes respect, fairness, and caring.
8. Prejudice and Discrimination - This lesson promotes respect, fairness, and courage.           

Too Good for Violence was designed to reduce the risk factors and enhance the protective factors that have been found to mitigate violent behavior. J. David Hawkins and Richard F. Catalano, Jr. classified the protective factors as:

• Bonding is the sense of belonging that comes from opportunities to participate within a supportive, caring group. The corresponding risk factor is a sense of isolation. In order to promote bonding, Too Good for Violence utilizes many community-building activities using cooperative learning as a critical teaching strategy. Students are given frequent opportunities to contribute and encouraged to see that by working together, we can make and keep our world a peaceable place.
• Norms are standards or models that are regarded as typical. There are many negative norms that promote violence, such as a belief that competition is always desirable, the idea that violence is the inevitable result of conflict, and the impression that heroes are aggressive "macho" types. Many activities in Too Good for Violence are challenge negative norms and promote positive ones. The curriculum includes activities that demonstrate how cooperation is a more effective solution than competition in many conflict situations, particularly in interpersonal conflicts. Other lessons show that while conflict is inevitable, violence is not. There are also activities that encourage students to redefine what it means to be a man, a woman, and a hero.
• Skills are the third protective factor necessary for an effective prevention program. Even if students are bonded to positive, non-violent role models, even if they have positive norms regarding the desirability of cooperative, non-violent conflict resolution, they may still become involved in violence as victims or perpetrators if they don't know how to resolve conflicts peacefully. Because non-violent living requires a variety of vital life skills, we teach not only conflict resolution, but also anger management and communication skills, as well as skills for giving and getting respect. These skills are complex and require much reinforcement. The program begins with simple, developmentally-appropriate skills and builds from grade level to grade level. This sequential skill-building design simplifies implementation by providing grade-specific lessons that ensure students receive a thorough and comprehensive violence prevention program.

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