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Bullying Seminars for Staff and Students
Common Sense Diffusion
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Take an extra second to intervene or ask a question, sometimes this can be an agent of change in a bullying cycle.
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Teachers trust your instincts that something may be amiss with students and administrators until the issue is addressed
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Schools should take is to be explicit about what is and isn’t acceptable behavior.
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Clarify the school’s code of conduct or handbook and review with students
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Outlining what the expectations are can be incredibly powerful
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Peer and Group Interventions
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Counseling
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Truant Officer's Roles
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Staff Desensitization/Burnout/Retreats
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Recruit from local colleges students in need of volunteer hours or civic hours as Big Brothers/Big Sisters
Physical Security Risk Analysis/Camera Perimeter Safety and Door Locks/Alert Buttons, Reception/Drill Prep
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Risk Prevention Surveys
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Physical Perimeter Walk-throughs and Recommendations
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Safe Rooms, Lock-outs, Drill
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Bystander Buy-in Training
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Teaching students if in or witnessing bullying
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Anti-bully Toolkits
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Implement program over time vs. schoolwide assembly w/o follow-up.
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Services include teaching social-emotional learning skills, empathy, problem-solving skills and internet safety
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Other school based safety measures, internal and external
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Vaping Sensors
Positive Trends in Top Schools
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Culture and Tone from the Top
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Training Positive Cultures
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Parent and Staff Community Reach
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Proactive Advocate Endorsement for Inclusivity Practices and Normalizing Differences
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Teach connectivity vs. exclusivity
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Setting up a Team of Mental Well-being Screeners and Advocates
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Setting up Peer Review Bullying Screeners and Advocates
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Pre-emptive Peer Aides to assist vulnerable students with escorts, cafeteria, playground supports
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Invest in Parents of Classified Students with IEPs Group Newsletters and Outreach in Communities
"Bystander education and setting schoolwide expectations can play a crucial component in bullying prevention efforts, according to child psychology experts. Substantial and growing body of data and research suggests there are strong correlations between school shooters and bullying. Most attackers who target K-12 schools were bullied — sometimes persistently, according to a 2019 report by the U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center that analyzed 41 incidents of school violence at K-12 schools between 2008 and 2017.
While that analysis only looked at behavioral histories for 35 of the 41 attackers, 80% of those 35 were bullied by classmates, and 57% faced bullying that lasted for weeks, months or years."
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