“Charlie Foxman’s Black Belt Curriculum Report, “Knowledge Is Your Students’ Greatest Weapon Against Bullies!” includes comprehensive lessons as well as numerous drills to help students reduce the likelihood of becoming victims of bullies and bullying situations.

Start your lessons with a complete understanding of bullies: Who they are, what they do to others and why they act the way that they do. Often, this practical knowledge is what children need most to avoid bully problems.

You can also teach your students, “Six Smart Ways To Be A Bully Buster!” and pump some excitement into your classroom with seven exercises that teach assertive body language, anger management, how to build a self-defense barrier and even the difference between tattling and telling.

You’ll also find a customizable letter to parents and a Home Practice flyer on the Media Master CD-ROM, so parents can continue these important lessons at home.

• A letter to parents
• Home Practice flyer

This month’s Edge MMA Curriculum Outline, presented by Terry Riggs, is The Stand-Up Game: Punching and Defense. It features defensive drills for warm-up that teaches students how to throw and defend various jabs and punches in an interactive fight simulation. Use the accompanying segment on the NAPMA Innovations DVD, for maximum learning and fun.

Tom Callos brings 21st century technology front and center in this month’s G.O.L.D. Team Leadership Report, “New/Old Ideas, BLOGGING, and the Leader’s Journey.”

The old idea, which Mr. Callos says is seldom part of most leadership team training (which also makes it new) is that your staff and leadership team members “create a complete and continuing personal life transformation with their martial arts training and journeys, and be living examples of the benefits derived from the studies of the martial arts.”

He suggests the best method (and the one with which your young team members can relate) is BLOGGING or writing a weekly online journal, so your students and community are able to read, study, learn from and be involved in your staff members’ personal transformation process.

Mr. Callos’ report also introduces you to the world of BLOGGING (which you may need more than your staff and leadership team members) and some practical tips to start the transformation process.

Solomon Brenner has selected another significant word for Words of the Week this month. Fear is a concept that all martial artists, adults and children, must understand, so they can learn to control it, without it controlling them.

Use the four lessons to teach your students that the biggest fear is often the fear of being alive or being all that one can be. Confronting fears can also help students to be more courageous, gain new confidence and strengthen their will.

You can help your students understand that fear can be a positive motivator, driving them to accomplish what they never thought possible.

Another valuable lesson is that the fear of the unknown is irrational, although fearing what we don’t know is often how people react to what lurks in the shadows. Facing the unknown often reveals that what we fear is not worth the effort we expend to be afraid.