Transcript Beating the bully: strategies for parents to empower teens

Raising Awareness about the HIB Policy
To strengthen standards for
preventing, reporting, investigating,
and responding to incidents of
bullying and reduce the risk of
suicide among students.
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2002
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2007
2009
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2011
NJ HIB Law enacted mandating a
district/school policy
Revised to include Cyber Bullying
Revised to include annual
distribution and posting to the web
NEW NJ HIB Law enacted
 aka “Anti Bullying Bill of Rights”
 Broadest law in the United States
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Principal
 Direct report
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Anti Bullying Coordinator (ABC)
 District overseer
 Coordinator of Anti Bullying Specialists
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Anti Bullying Specialist (ABS)
 Investigator
 Chair of School Safety/Climate Team
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School Safety/Climate Team
 Oversees “climate” of school: trends, trouble spots
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All Board members, school employees, and
volunteers and contracted service providers
who have contact with pupils are required to
report alleged violations of this Policy to the
Principal or the Principal’s designee…
HIB means any gesture, any written, verbal or
physical act, or any electronic communication,
whether it be a single incident or a series of
incidents, that:
is reasonably perceived as being motivated either by
any actual or perceived characteristic, such as race,
color, religion, ancestry, national origin, gender,
sexual orientation, gender identity and expression,
or a mental, physical or sensory disability, or
2. by any other distinguishing characteristic
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“Electronic communication” means a communication transmitted by means of an electronic device, including, but not limited
to, a telephone, cellular phone, computer, or pager.
3. that takes place on school property, at any
school-sponsored function, on a school bus, or
off school grounds… that substantially disrupts
or interferes with the orderly operation of the
school or the rights of other students
4. A reasonable person should know, under the
circumstances, that the act(s) will have the effect of
physically or emotionally harming a pupil or
damaging the pupil’s property, or placing a pupil in
reasonable fear of physical or emotional harm to
his/her person or damage to his/her property; or
5. Has the effect of insulting or demeaning any pupil or
group of pupils; or
6. Creates a hostile educational environment for the
pupil by interfering with a pupil’s education or by
severely or pervasively causing physical or
emotional harm to the pupil.
Motivated by a
Characteristic
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Location
(If off school grounds: must create a substantial disruption.)
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Intent/Effect
to harm
HIB
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There is a Standardized Timeline for response
and report.
 Unalterable
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There are Standardized Forms
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Report Form
Initial parent letter- Bully version & Target version
Investigation Report: Pupil Accused
Investigation Report: Non Pupil Accused
Interview Form (target, witness, accused)
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Parent Education
 SB Parent Academy HIB Seminars (Fall)
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Student Education
 First Two Weeks (Age-appropriate definition, Off
School Grounds, AUP & Cyber Bullying)
 Week of Respect (10/3)
 Violence & Vandalism Awareness Week (10/17)
 Yearlong integration into all subjects
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Bullying is not conflict; it’s abuse.
Bullying thrives on silence.
Upstanders are the key.
Can’t judge a bully by how he/she looks.
HIB is about behavior.
HIB is about motivation.
Keep your eye on the “target.”
HIB is about how the target feels and reacts.
ANTI BULLYING COORDINATOR (ABC)
JUDY MCCORMICK
ANTI BULLYING SPECIALISTS (ABS)
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Jackie Turner (BA)
Alice Priano (BC/DE)
Peggy Ehrhardt (CA)
Amy Finkelstein (CO)
Lori Woods (GB)
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Amy Bertelsen-Robles (IF/ DA)
Lynne Sultan-Weinstein (MJ)
Vicki Moses (XRDN)
Scott Roth (XRDS)
Anastasia Marcella (SBHS)
“No school can be a great school
until it is a safe school first.”
~Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education