This video from Edutopia profiles WINGS, an after-school program in South Carolina that cultivates emotional intelligence. More information on the program is available here.

What makes a good peer mediator? – Duration: 03:57
Explores what makes a good peer mediator, skills include understanding feelings, not taking sides, knowing how to help and how to listen. Features students from a Year Five (5th Grade) class in the U.K. The clip is from a longer video on peer mediation. You have to go directly to the BBC Learning Zone site to view it.

What is a peer mediator? – Duration: 02:45.
A class of Year Five (5th Grade) children in a U.K. school explore conflict and how best to deal with it. They learn about peer mediation. This is a clip from a longer video on peer mediation skills. You have to go directly to the BBC Learning Zone site to view it.

Seeing both sides of a story – Clip Duration: 01:37. Children at a U.K. school learn how to support their peers in the playground to find resolutions to conflict. This is a clip from a longer video on peer mediation. You have to go directly to the BBC Learning Zone site to view it.

This 27-minute video was produced by Teachers TV in the U.K. Experts tackle the problem of girls bullying. Experts explore the problem of girls bullying other girls and give tips on how to identify the symptoms as well as tackling the causes. Because girls can be more subtle bullies than boys, using exclusion and verbal weapons rather than fists and fights, their actions can be more difficult to spot and change. Ways to combat this type of bullying such as peer mentoring are seen in action at both primary and secondary level, as well as a creative drama workshop which helps girls explore their role when faced with these incidents in the classroom or playground. One school shows how by running anti-bullying sessions they have been able to forewarn and forearm girls against the actions of bullies.

Bullied is a Teaching Tolerance documentary film that chronicles one student’s ordeal at the hands of anti-gay bullies and offers an inspiring message of hope to those fighting harassment today. It can become a cornerstone of anti-bullying efforts in middle and high schools.