Transcript KSDE Bullying Prevention

KSDE
STATUTORY
AUTHORITY
KSA 72-8256
KSA 72-8256
Requires schools to:
1. Adopt and implement a plan to address bullying and
cyber bullying.
2. Adopt policies prohibiting bullying.
3. Adopt and implement a plan to address bullying that
includes training provisions for staff and students.
4. Upon request, the state board shall assist in the
development of grade appropriate curriculum for
character development programs.
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Ks. Association of School Board
More complete examples are on
the Safe Schools Resource
Center page
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Approved the development of social-emotional
character development standards
Agreed to draft a statement relative to the
seriousness of bullying
Agreed that the first full week of October of each
year beginning with October 2011 be designated
Anti-Bullying Awareness Week in Kansas as a
symbol of our commitment to ensuring safe and
nurturing school environments.
Draft Statement from the Kansas
State Board of Education:
Serious Nature of Bullying
The Kansas State Board of Education believes in
providing physically safe and emotionally secure
environments for all Kansas students and school staff.
The State Board recognizes that bullying is a serious
issue affecting Kansas schools by creating a negative
effect on the social environment of schools and a
climate of fear among students, as well as inhibiting
students’ ability to learn and leading to other antisocial behavior.
The State Board encourages Kansas schools to adopt
policies to assist school personnel in identifying bullying,
intimidation and harassment and in providing a framework
for an appropriate response to such activities that
reinforces and encourages positive conduct and ensures the
safety of all students.
For this reason, the State Board supports current state
legislation requiring each local board of education to adopt
and implement a plan to address bullying on or while
utilizing school property, in a school vehicle and at schoolsponsored activities and events, including a provision for
the training and education of school staff members and
students.
Legal concerns
• State law related to bullying (K.S.
A. 72-8256).
• Civil suits brought against
schools/district.
• Risk management issues for
schools.
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CURRICULUM
AND
INSTRUCTION
LOCAL OPTION
 Evidenced based
 MTSS alignment
 Staff and community involvement
 Progress monitoring
 Empower the culture
 Establish behavioral expectations early
and revisit them throughout the year
Kansas Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS)
Behavior
• Student centered planning
• Customized function-based interventions
• Frequent progress monitoring to guide
intervention design
• Supplemental targeted function-based interventions
• Small groups or individual support
• Frequent progress monitoring to guide intervention
design
Academics
• More intense supplemental targeted skill interventions
• Customized interventions
• Frequent progress monitoring to guide intervention design
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Supplemental targeted skill interventions
Small groups
Frequent progress monitoring to guide intervention
design
• All students, All settings
• Positive behavioral expectations
explicitly taught and reinforced
• Consistent approach to discipline
• Assessment system and data-based
decision making
• All students
• Evidence-based core curriculum & instruction
• Assessment system and data-based decision
making
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Coloroso Drive-Ins
MTSS Behavior
Partnership In Character Education Grant
Curriculum
 Data collection
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BullySafe USA/Ks. Children’s Service League
grant partnership
KSDE web pages
Safe Schools Conference
School Violence Hotline
Technical assistance
SAFE AND
SUPPORTIVE
SCHOOLS
GRANT
PRIORITY OBJECTIVES
 Establish a state-wide
measurement system for school
climate and culture (conditions for
learning- CFL)
 Provide interventions for CFL
S3 UPDATE
 Currently conducting statewide coordinator
interviews
 Informed the field that the Communities That
Care Survey is a participation requirement
 Completing contract for an evaluator
 Plan to issue an RFP for victim’s assistance
services and/or restorative justice training/TA
 Supported School Safety Hotline
 Developing Safe Schools Manual
 Support the Safe Schools Conference
Safe and Supportive Schools (S3)
Low CFL index
support
Needs assessment
School violence hotline
Victims assistance/restorative justice
Culture and climate measurement
Immediate intervention; technical assistance
Social Emotional Character Development (SECD) Standards
Safe Schools Manual
MTSS alignment
Kent Reed
School Counseling
[email protected]
785-296-8109
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