Overview: GGC offers a connected set of bullying prevention resources that helps students understand the issue, see a young changemaker in action, practice positive choices, and use their own talents to help others.
National Bullying Prevention Month in October gives schools an important opportunity to focus attention on how students treat one another. But meaningful bullying prevention requires more than a single reminder to be kind.
Global Game Changers offers a connected collection of free resources that can help educators begin the conversation in October and carry it throughout the year. Teachers, counselors, and principals can use one resource for a focused introduction or combine several into a classroom unit, a week of activities, or a schoolwide October initiative. Together, the materials move students from learning about bullying to seeing how their own talents, choices, and actions can make a difference.
The Bullying Heart Badge video offers an easy starting point for introducing the topic. Its short, student-friendly format helps children understand why bullying is a cause people care about.
For classroom teachers, the video can open a Bullying Heart Badge unit without adding extensive preparation. Counselors can use it to begin a small-group or classroom conversation. Principals can share it during an assembly or morning meeting to establish a common message across grade levels. Because the video introduces the topic in the familiar GGC world, it can help make a difficult conversation feel approachable.
After students have been introduced to the Heart Badge, Kaydence’s episode of What’s Your Superpower? shows what action can look like. Kaydence combines her heart for addressing bullying with her talent for music to create an anti-bullying song.
Her story gives students more than an inspiring example. It expands their idea of how someone can help. Making a difference does not always begin with a large campaign or a formal leadership role. It can begin with a talent a child already has and a message they believe others need to hear. Kaydence’s episode can lead naturally into conversations about students’ own talents and how art, music, writing, sports, technology, organizing, speaking, or simply listening might be used to support others.
The Bullying Mini Activity Book gives educators a compact, student-facing way to continue the conversation. It can be used after a video, incorporated into counseling or classroom instruction, sent home for family discussion, or offered as part of a larger October resource packet.
A resource students can hold, revisit, and complete helps extend learning beyond the moment of a group discussion. It also gives educators flexibility: the activity book can support a brief introduction or reinforce ideas taught through the full GGC lessons.
For educators ready to go deeper, the GGC Bullying Heart Badge lessons provide hands-on learning experiences designed for elementary students. The lessons help move the topic out of the abstract. Students can explore situations, consider choices, build empathy, and think about what helpful action can look like in developmentally appropriate ways.
The lessons can be taught as a complete unit or selected to complement work a school is already doing. A classroom teacher might add one activity to a morning meeting routine. A counselor might use several lessons during classroom visits. A principal or leadership team might select a shared activity that every grade completes during October. The resources are designed to give educators structure without requiring every school to use them in exactly the same way.
GGC’s Bullying Unit also includes unique bullying-related service projects by grade level. These projects give students an opportunity to apply what they have learned and contribute in a way that fits their developmental stage. Rather than positioning children only as potential targets or witnesses of bullying, service invites them to see themselves as people who can strengthen belonging and encourage others.
A grade-level approach also makes schoolwide participation manageable. Each group can complete an age-appropriate project while contributing to the same larger goal. Schools can share the results through displays, announcements, an assembly, or family communications so students can see that many individual efforts are helping build one caring community.
Because the resources are designed to work together, educators can build a plan that fits the time and setting available.
National Bullying Prevention Month is a useful moment to begin or renew this work, but the habits that create a caring school community are built throughout the year. The GGC resources help schools revisit the message in different forms so it does not become a one-time slogan. Students can hear the idea, see it modeled, practice it, reflect on it, and put it into action through service.
That progression is what makes the collection comprehensive. It supports awareness, but it does not stop there. It helps students recognize that they have a role in building the kind of classroom and school where people feel safe, valued, and ready to learn.
Use the GGC bullying prevention resources to create an October plan that fits your students, your schedule, and your school. Create an account to access the free program and help students put MY TALENT + MY HEART = MY SUPERPOWER!® into action.
