STAND UP FOR RESPECT BULLYING PREVENTION IN OUR SCHOOLS

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STAND UP FOR RESPECT!BULLYING PREVENTION IN OUR
SCHOOLS

• PENFIELD CENTRAL SCHOOLS
• Dr. Susan Gray, Superintendent

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A COMPONENT OF CHARACTER EDUCATION

• K - 12 CHARACTER
• EDUCATION FRAMEWORK
• MISSION To develop and nurture a learning
  community in which all members understand and
  demonstrate respect, responsibility, integrity,
  self-discipline, and caring

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TRAITS AND DEFINITIONS

• RESPECT Realizing that each person deserves
  courtesy, consideration and acceptance, we will
  treat each other with respect
• CARING Realizing that each person deserves
  kindness, compassion and empathy, we will
  demonstrate through our words and actions, caring
  toward others and ourselves
• INTEGRITY Realizing the importance of truth,
  honor and sincerity, we will act with integrity
• RESPONSIBILITY Realizing that we are all
  accountable for our actions and words, we will
  accept responsibility
• SELF-DISCIPLINE Realizing that we are
  responsible for controlling our words and actions
  we will exercise self-discipline

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BULLYING PREVENTIONMission Statement

• Our goal is to make the school environment safe
  for children both physically and psychologically.

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STAND UP FOR RESPECT! BULLYING PREVENTION DISTRICT
COMMITTEE Mark Miele, Chair
PARENT SUB-COMMITTEE
EDUCATION SUB-COMMITTEE Counselors
Administrators
PENFIELD ATHLETICS
ELEMENTARY Marc Nelson, Chair
PENFIELD HIGH SCHOOL
BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL
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DISTRICT COMMITTEE GOALS

• YEAR ONE
• Raising awareness of staff, students and parents
• Surveys
• General Bullying Presentations to all PSCD staff
  parents
• Language for staff, students and parents
• Designing and implementing programs at all levels
  and for different groups
• Elementary MS HS Athletics Parents
• YEAR TWO
• Awareness activities continue
• Additional parent and community needs
• District Wide level scan
• Address bullying areas without adults supervision
  (buses, hallway)
• Design Evaluation component
• YEAR THREE
• Refine individual components and review
  articulation of the whole program
• Complete evaluation and make modifications
  suggested from evaluation

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PARENT COMMITTEE GOALS AND ACTIVITIES

• Goals
• Educate parents in PCSD regarding Bullying to
  help provide our schools with climate where all
  students feel safe and can work to their
  potential
• Educate community about bullying so that students
  have consistent message inside and outside of
  school
• Emphasize to all members of Penfield Central
  School District (parents, teachers,
  administrators, students and community members)
  about their responsibility for being role models
  and for speaking up when they find themselves as
  bystanders.
• Activities
• Articles in PTA/HSA newsletters
• Speaker about Bullying Prevention at Parent
  University
• Parent education evenings, book discussions
• Presentations at Open Houses by school counselors
• Behavioral expectations for parents and community
  members at events at PSCD

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BULLYING PREVENTIONSURVEY RESULTS

• ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
• BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL

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Penfield Elementary Survey
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STUDENTS Sometimes one student, or a group of
students, deliberately pick on another student.
How often would you say this happens at Bay Trail
during the school year?
BAY TRAIL
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Students How often this year has another
student, or group of students, bullied you?
BAY TRAIL
Parents To the best of your knowledge, has your
child been bullied by another student, or group
of students, while attending Bay Trail?
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STUDENTS During this school year, have any of
the following happened to you?
BAY TRAIL
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STUDENTS Have you noticed bullying going on at
Bay Trail in any of these places?
BAY TRAIL
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STAFF Where have you, personally, noticed
bullying here at Bay Trail?
BAY TRAIL
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STAFF How often would you say these forms of
bullying occur at Bay Trail?
BAY TRAIL
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Bully-Proofing Your School A Comprehensive
Approach An overview and philosophy

• Systemic, comprehensive program
• Main focus - climate change
• Teaches skills/strategies to avoid victimization
• Emphasis on developing caring majority
• Encourages students to make changes necessary to
  create a safe and nurturing environment

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TERMINOLOGY

• Definition of Bullying
• A person is being bullied or victimized when he
  or she is exposed, repeatedly and over time, to
  negative actions on the part of one or more
  persons. (Olweus, 1991).
• Whether direct or indirect, bullying contains
  several key elements
• An imbalance of power
• Repeated actions
• Intentional actions
• Unequal levels of affect
• Victim
• Someone who is exposed, usually repeatedly and
  over time, to negative actions on the pat of one
  or more bullies (Olweus, 1991 Perry et al, 1990)
• Bystander
• Students who are not actively involved in the
  bullying dynamic and are not officially
  identified as bullies or victims. (They are the
  majority of the school population.)

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TYPES OF BULLYING

• PHYSICAL AGGRESSION
• Pushing, kicking
• Stealing
• Physical acts that are demeaning/humiliating
• Physical violence
• Threatening with weapon

• SOCIAL ALIENATION
• Gossiping
• Spreading rumors
• Public humiliation
• Malicious exclusion
• Threatening with isolation from total peer group

• VERBAL AGGRESSION
• Mocking name calling
• Teasing about clothes/things
• Teasing about appearance
• Verbal threats of aggression against things
• Verbal threats of violence or bodily harm

• INTIMIDATION
• Threatening to reveal personal information
  
• Playing a dirty trick
• Taking possessions
• Extortion
• Threats of coercion against family/friends
• Coercion

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RECOGNIZING THE DIFFERENCEPEER CONFLICT vs.
BULLYING
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COUNSELING CURRICULUM

• PHASE 1 2004-2005
• 1st Grade
• Empathy Training
• 4 Lessons
• 3rd Grade
• Anger Management and Social Skills
• 4 Lessons
• 4th Grade
• Bullying Prevention, Education and Skills
  Building Part 1
• 3 Lessons

• PHASE 2 2005-2006
• Kindergarten
• Friendship Skills
• 1 Lesson
• 2nd Grade
• Communication Skills and Problem Solving
• 2 Lessons
• 5th Grade
• Bullying Prevention, Education and Skills
  Building Part 2
• 3 Lessons

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• Sixth Grade
• Bullies-Bystanders-Empathy-Definitions/Types of
  Bullying
• Teasing-Taking a Stand-Normal Conflict vs.
  Bullying
• Sexual Harassment-Inclusion-Victims-HA HA SO
  Strategies
• Dr. Gray Bullying presentation

• Seventh Grade
• Review basics-Cliques-Flirting-Empathy-Taking a
  Stand-Inclusion
• Levels of risk-taking-Sexual Harassment-Creative
  Problem Solving
• Dr. Gray Respecting individual differences

Eighth Grade Review basics-Groups/Cliques-Empathy-
Sexual Harassment Intention-Positive
Leadership-Taking a Stand-Flirting-Inclusion Creat
ive Problem Solving Dr. Gray Sexual Harassment
New Students Above lessons shared experiences,
No-bullying expectations, Discipline policy
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WHEN YOU SEE OR HEAR BULLYING WHAT TO DO

• IMMEDIATELY STOP THE BULLYING
• STAND BETWEEN STUDENTS TO BLOCK EYE CONTACT
• DONT ASK ABOUT REASONS, ETC.
• REFER TO BULLYING BEHAVIOR AND SAY ITS AGAINST
  SCHOOL RULES ABOUT BULLYING
• CALLING SOMEONE NAMES IS BULLYING AND AGAINST
  OUR SCHOOL RULES
• INCREASE SUPERVISION TO MAKE SURE BULLIED CHILD
  IS NOT BULLIED AGAIN
• REPORT INCIDENT TO BUILDING ADMINISTRATOR OR SEND
  CHILD TO ADMINISTRATOR, DEPENDING ON SEVERITY OF
  SITUATION
• IF APPROPRIATE AND COMFORTABLE, SAY TO
  BYSTANDERS, MAYBE YOU WERENT SURE WHAT TO
  DONEXT TIME PLEASE TELL THE PERSON TO STOP OR
  GET AN ADULT TO HELP. BULLYING HURTS
• DONT ASK THE STUDENTS INVOLVED IN THE BULLYING
  TO WORK IT OUT

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DISCIPLINE PROCEDURES, K - 12

• First Report to principal
• Consequences applied as appropriate
• School counselor referral follow up conference
• Second Report to principal
• Administrator reviews the bullying definition and
  policy with the student
• Notification of parent
• Consequences applied as appropriate
• Third Report to principal
• Pattern of bullying established
• Consequences In or Out of School Suspension up
  to five days
• Parent conference
• Counseling
• Fourth Contact with principal
• Additional suspensions
• Principals hearing
• Superintendents hearing

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PENFIELD HIGH SCHOOL

• STUDENT-STAFF LEADERSHIP
• CHARACTER ED
• STAND UP FOR RESPECT COMMITTEE (SAFE SCHOOLS
  AMBASSADORS WORKSHOP)
• PUBLIC SERVICE TV ANNOUNCEMENTS ON THEME OF
  MONTH PENFIELD PRIDE STUDENT RECOGNITION
  TOLERANCE DISCUSSIONS
• STUDENT PERFORMED SONGS of RESPECT COOPERATION
  CARING
• BULLYING EDUCATION AND INTERVENTION
• SCENARIOS IN ALL PE CLASSES, STUDENT LEAD
• NAPOLEON DYNAMITE
• PLEASE STAND UP (NYS CENTER FOR SCHOOL SAFETY)
• MONTHLY ARTICLES IN HS NEWSLETTER
• PRESENTATION AT FRESHMAN ORIENTATION
• COUNSELING CHANGES
• ANGER MANAGEMENT
• SMALL GROUP VICTIM/BYSTANDER SUPPORT
• INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING FOR BULLY
• CODE OF CONDUCT CHANGE TO INCLUDE
  ANTI-HARASSMENT, BULLYING LANGUAGE AND STIFFER
  PENALTIES

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ATHLETIC GOALS AND ACTIVITIES

• Precipitating Incident
• Identification of Appropriate Behavior at
  Sporting Events
• Penfield Schools
• Monroe County PSCD Athletic Director, Pete
  Shambo
• Stand Up for Respect
• Sportsmanship, It Starts with Us
• Powerpoint presentation
• Banners
• Parents for Good Sports (Parents as Partners)
• David Epperson George Selleck

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WHAT IS ELSE IS HAPPENING?

• In-service for Faculty Staff
• Proactive lessons
• Counselor interventions
• Consistent discipline
• Education for Parents Developing a Plan
• Contact school
• Monitor your approach
• Expect a resolution
• Educate yourself Bully-Proofing Your Child, A
  Parents Guide (Garrity, Baris, Porter, 2000)
• Character Education Committee/HSA
• PTA/HSA Articles Parent University
• Parent Education Night Bay Trail
• Queen Bees and Wannabes Helping Your Daughter
  Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends Other
  Realities of Adolescence. By Rosalind Wiseman
• Thursday, Nov. 18th, from 630 8 PM
• STAND UP FOR RESPECT SPORTSMANSHIP IT STARTS
  WITH YOU! PARENTS FOR GOOD SPORTS

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RESOURCES

• Coloroso, B. (2003). The Bully, the Bullied and
  the Bystander. HarperCollins Publishing Inc., 10
  East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022
• Bateman, T., Urbanovic, J., (2004). The Bully
  Blockers Club. Albert Whitney and Company, 6340
  Oakton Street, Morton Grove, Illinois 60053
• ONeill, A., Huliska-Beith, L (2002). The Recess
  Queen. Scholastic Press, 555 Broadway, New York,
  NY 10012
• McCain, B., Leonardo, T., (2001). Nobody Knew
  What to Do. Albert Whitney and Company, 6340
  Oakton Street, Morton Grove, Illinois 60053
• Lester, H., Munsinger, L. (1999). Hooway for
  Wodney Wat. Houghton Mifflin Company, 215 Park
  Avenue South, New York, NY 10003
• Please Stand Up, NYS Center for School Safety,
  2002. (www.PleaseStandUp.org)
• Epperson, David and George Selleck. Parents for
  Good Sports. Alliance Publications, Sugar Land
  TX, 2004. www.parentsforgoodsports.org
• www.StopBullyingNow.hrsa.gov
• Susan_Gray_at_penfield.monroe.edu