Bullying Training for Teachers & School Staff
Teachers Bullying Training
Bullying training for teachers only works if staff leave with the same words in their mouths. This PD session gives your whole team — teachers, aides, wellbeing staff and leadership — a shared framework for spotting bullying, responding in the moment, running the follow-up conversation and handling the parent phone call. Practical scripts, not theory. Runs as a staff meeting, PD day or twilight session. See also Jonny's work as a motivational speaker for schools.
Who it's for
What students walk away with
The 7 types of bullying (verbal, physical, social, cyber, sexual, prejudicial, coercive) and the early-warning signs staff most often miss.
Word-for-word scripts to de-escalate, protect the target, and address the behaviour without shaming the student.
Trauma-informed conversations, safety planning and follow-up routines that actually rebuild confidence.
Restorative, behaviour-change approaches that address the 'why' behind bullying instead of just punishing the 'what'.
How to turn 90% of your students into upstanders — the single biggest lever in reducing school-wide bullying.
How to run the hard phone call with the target's parents AND the bully's parents — and keep both on-side.
Screenshotting, reporting to platforms and the eSafety Commissioner, and the legal thresholds every teacher should know.
A simple staff-wide protocol so every incident gets handled consistently — from casual RFT through to executive.
Staff leave with a printable response flowchart, ready-to-use scripts, and a shared whole-school language for tackling bullying. Available as a 60, 90 or 120-minute PD, and pairs powerfully with Jonny's student and parent-night sessions for a whole-community rollout.
The presentation
Why This PD, Right Now
59% (2.3 million) of Australian students report being bullied, with 1 in 5 experiencing it weekly (McCrindle, 2026). Over 70% of students say they don't feel confident stepping in when they see it happen. Teachers are the front line — and staff consistently tell us they want practical tools, not another policy document.
The 7 Types of Bullying
- Verbal — insults, name-calling, threats
- Physical — hitting, pushing, damaging belongings
- Social / relational — exclusion, rumour-spreading, alliance-building
- Cyber — DMs, group chats, anonymous accounts, image-based abuse
- Sexual — unwanted comments, touching, image sharing
- Prejudicial — race, faith, gender, sexuality, disability, class
- Coercive — pressure, blackmail, forced participation
The Response Framework
A repeatable 5-step model — Notice, Name, Separate, Support, Follow-up — that any staff member (teacher, TA, admin, sports coach) can execute consistently. Includes concrete language for each step.
Restorative & Behaviour-Change Practice
Why punishment alone rarely changes behaviour, and how to run a restorative conversation that addresses harm, restores dignity, and reduces repeat incidents. Includes the 5 questions Jonny uses with students who bully.
Cyberbullying Deep-Dive
How to preserve evidence, report to Instagram / Snapchat / TikTok / Roblox, when and how to escalate to the eSafety Commissioner, and where the legal line sits for staff and students. Includes a printable evidence checklist.
The Parent Phone Calls
Two scripts every staff member should have on hand: one for the parents of the target, one for the parents of the student who bullied. How to open, what to promise, what to never promise, and how to keep both families engaged.
Building an Upstander Culture
The research on bystander intervention, plus the classroom activities and language that shift the social norm from 'don't be a snitch' to 'we look out for each other here'.
Staff Self-Care
Bullying incidents take a toll on the teachers who handle them. Practical debriefing, boundary-setting and workload-protection strategies so your best staff don't burn out on the toughest cases.
Learning Outcomes
Staff will leave able to identify all 7 types of bullying, apply a consistent 5-step response, run restorative conversations, handle cyberbullying evidence and reporting, and communicate confidently with parents on both sides.
Curriculum alignment
This presentation is tailored to the audience depending on age & outcomes and follows the Australian curriculum according to Educational Analysis and Consulting.
- • Whole-staff PD days and twilight sessions
- • New teachers, graduate teachers and pre-service teachers
- • Wellbeing, pastoral and student services teams
- • Executive, heads of year and heads of house
- • Support staff — TAs, admin, coaches, chaplains, bus supervisors
- • A printable Notice-Name-Separate-Support-Follow-up response flowchart
- • Word-for-word scripts for the moment, the debrief and the parent calls
- • A cyberbullying evidence and reporting checklist
- • A restorative conversation guide with the 5 core questions
- • A shared whole-school language for handling every incident consistently
What educators say
The most practical bullying PD our staff have ever had. We walked out with actual scripts and a framework — not just another slide deck. Every teacher used something from it that week.
Jonny's session gave our whole team the same language for the first time. Incidents are being handled consistently across year levels — a genuine culture shift.
The parent phone-call scripts alone were worth the whole PD. Our staff feel confident having conversations they used to avoid.
Frequently asked questions
All teaching and support staff. Schools get the most out of it when leadership, wellbeing staff and classroom teachers are in the room together.
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