Teaching Guides

This teaching guide helps educators lead conversations about behaviors that are often normalized but may actually be unhealthy, coercive, or abusive. It provides a framework for distinguishing between “red flags” and true violations of consent, using discussion prompts, scenario analysis, and the pillars of consent to help students build a deeper understanding of healthy relationship dynamics.

This teaching guide provides educators with tools to address the challenges of navigating intimacy and relationships after sexual assault. It includes structured discussion prompts, guidance for supporting survivors as they manage PTSD, boundaries, and healing, and strategies for partners to practice patience, communication, and respect. Reflection questions encourage students to build empathy and awareness, while practical tips highlight both self-care and healthy relational dynamics.

This teaching guide introduces students to practical bystander intervention strategies through a youth-created short film. It provides discussion prompts, activities, and scenarios that model how to recognize harmful behaviors, use distraction or de-escalation, and support peers in unsafe situations. By centering peer responsibility, the guide empowers students to practice safe, realistic ways of stepping in and preventing harassment or assault.

This teaching guide helps educators address the stigma and myths surrounding male survivors of sexual assault. It provides discussion prompts and strategies to unpack masculinity norms, explore barriers to healing, and create supportive classroom dialogue that validates survivors of all genders. Paired with a SafeBAE Board Member’s video testimony, the guide opens space for challenging stereotypes and supporting male-identified survivors.