Empowering Educators and Equipping Students and Parents with Effective Protocols on Cyberbullying, Manifesting Positive Behavioral-Self Management Techniques

Executive Summary Empowering Educators and Equipping Students and Parents with Effective Protocols on Cyberbullying, Manifesting Positive Behavioral-Self Management Techniques. Lisa M. Young, 2025: Strategic Research Project, Nova Southeastern University, Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice. Keywords: aggressive behavior, behavior monitoring system (BMS), cyber awareness on social media scale, problematic, social emotional learning (SEL) The Strategic Research Project is a description of why teens and minors, between twelve and eighteen years of age are identified as targets on social media websites and are manipulated by aggressive behavior perpetrators who belittle victims’ character and self-esteem. This strategic research project was designed to provide information retrieved from analyzing multiple resources in determining the most appropriate strategy to be implemented for a solution. Tools such as the Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threat (SWOT) analysis, Internal and External Factor Evaluation (IFE/EFE) and the Quantitative Strategic Plan Matrix (QSPM) were utilized in the decision process. The QSPM identified the most critical problem that happens off campus and transfers to school campus. Behavioral issues and fights that start at home through Instagram and TikTok and end up on campus have given the school a negative reputation. Perpetrators have become problematic to individuals who fear speaking up and are afraid to defend themselves, and this has caused victims to be affected with social emotional learning (SEL) from cyberbullying. The solution to rectify the problem was to implement new strategies to teach and monitor situations with parental involvement from home by monitoring children’s cell phones, collaborating with cell phone companies to block certain websites, and for the school district to block unusual sites that distract students’ use of computers. The strategy chosen reflects institute preventative on cyberbullying awareness and gives support to parents, teachers, stakeholders and students by learning how to maneuver throughout social media websites and identify scammers to avoid becoming a victim. My Action Plan was created for a ten-month school year process followed by retrieving feedback and tracking data. An important factor begins with having security officers at school assisting the behavior monitoring system closely for fights or any bad intentions from the students and providing teachers resources to promote and educate students and families on cyber awareness from the school social media profile. Another part of the plan is to engage the community about supportive intervention, policy, and continuous feedback on data about changes and growth from the plan. My recommendation is to support and encourage bullied students on how to build their self-esteem and learn to identify negative signs from verbiage and images on social media sites.