Title: A Canadian Approach to Prevent School Bullying and Violence
1A Canadian Approach to Prevent School Bullying
and Violence
Creating Safe and Caring Learning Communities
- International Conference on School Bullying and
Violence - Stavanger, Norway
- September 5-8, 2004
- Sandra Dean
- Together We Light the Way
- Canada
2Results School Safety
- Decreased incidents of bullying over the
three-year period of implementation
3Results Academic Achievement
- Students met or exceeded grade equivalent growth
4Focus
- Creating Safe and Caring
- Learning Communities
- Bullying
5Safe and Caring
Learning Community
Resilient
6Risk Factors
- Unsuccessful in school
- Low academic achievement
- Low sense of self
- Unsafe and insecure environment
- Victimization
- Bullying
- Fighting
- Poor nutrition
- Family stress
- Poor relationships
- Low secure attachments to caring adults
7Protective Factors
- School success
- Increased academic achievement
- A sense of self
- Safe, secure and nurturing environments
- A healthful lifestyle
- Positive family and school relationships
- Respectful and caring relationships
- Connection to caring adults
8Monitoring and Evaluating
- Informed decision making
- Refine implementation
- Change or re-direct practice
9Comprehensive School Based-Model
Pillars for Living, Learning Growing and Being
- Academic
- Respect
- Teamwork
- Leadership
10Guiding Principles
- Everyone is unique and has a contribution to make
- Everyone has strengths which must be nurtured and
supported - Everyone has the right to be respected and the
responsibility to respect others - Service to others performed with caring and love
makes a difference
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12School/Community-Wide Approach
13Role Models
- Like it or not, teachers, parents, caregivers,
we are all role models. Our daily choices and
actions will echo through the generations. - - Jensen
14Circles of Respect
15Partner Engagement
- Social Capital
- Social Cohesion
16Current and Future Initiatives
- Provincial Governments
- Canadian Government
- U.S. Government
- The Caribbean
- OECD
- United Nations
17From Program to Practice
- Comprehensive training
- Step-by-step instructions and staged
implementation approaches - Full range of resources
- Measurement tools
- Ongoing support
- Best-practice sharing opportunities
- Celebration events
18Community
Somewhere, there are people to whom we can Speak
with passion, without having the words Catch in
our throats. Somewhere a circle of hands will
open To receive us, Eyes will light up as we
enter, Voices will celebrate us whenever we come
into Our own power. Community means strength
that joins Our strength to do the work that Needs
to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A
circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace
where we can be free. - Christina Baldwin
19Contact Information
- Sandra Dean
- Together We Light the Way
- Durham District School Board
- 400 Taunton Road East
- Whitby, Ontario L1R 2K6
- Canada
- dean_sandra_at_durham.edu.on.ca
- www.togetherwelighttheway.com