whole child safety

Promoting Safety for the Whole Child

Presented by Deanna E. Mayers

WHAT ARE YOUR HOPES AND FEARS ABOUT EDUCATING THE WHOLE CHILD?

Type your fears in RED and Type your hopes in GREEN on the white board now.

Internet Safety Policy Recommendations. National

Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), 2007. (web

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Safety and Whole Child Education

• “Each student learns in an intellectually challenging environment that is physically and emotionally safe for students and adults. “

» http://www.wholechildeducation.org/about/

• About two-thirds (62 percent) of high school dropouts say their schools should have done more to enforce classroom discipline (Civic Enterprises and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation). Internet Safety Policy

Recommendations. National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), 2007. (web

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http://www.wholechildeducation.org/safe/

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/default.htm

To ensure that all students are safe, ASCD recommends:

• Students, school staff, and family members establish and maintain behavioral expectations, rules, and routines

• Families are welcomed by school staff as partners in their children's education



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Facts

• 87% of all youth ages 12 through 17 or 21 million teens use the Internet

• Nineteen percent (4 million) keep a blog and 38% read blogs

• 49% of high school students have posted personal information on their Web pages such as name, age, or address – that could help a stranger identify or locate them

• 50% of high school students “talk” in chat rooms or use instant messaging with Internet strangers



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Facts

• 65% of high school students admit to unsafe, inappropriate, or illegal activities online

• Students are increasing their use of technology at a rapid pace in all grades. This includes using the Internet for research, and doing multimedia presentations for schoolwork

• 23% of students know someone who has been bullied online.



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Why does bullying happen?

Reasons Students Are Bullied• Students perceived that “being overweight” and “not

dressing right” were the most common reasons an individual might be bullied.

Students' Reactions to Bullying• The most common strategies students reported using

when confronted by bullies were walking away, saying mean things back, hitting back, or telling the bully to stop.

Inadequate Adult Response• Most students said they were not confident that

adults could protect them from being bullied.

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How We Treat One Another in School

Donna M. San Antonio and Elizabeth A. SalzfassMay 2007 | Volume 64 | Number 8

First Steps to stop bullying…

• Identifying where, when, and how students experience bullying at your school

• Recognize and name all forms of bullying.

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The Triple Challenge

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Steps to Safety

1. Learn the Tools2. Community Parent Partnerships3. Social and Emotional Activities in

Courses4. Effective Use of the Internet5. Policy/rules specific to bullying



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Where can BSN help?

• Internet and Cyber Safety

• Cyber Bullying

• Course Safety concerns• Training Teachers and other staff

• Parent outreach

• Intentional design of social interaction in courses

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Policy against cyber bullying

• Formulate clear guidelines to protect students and teachers against cyber bullying and other criminal activities

• Implement an anti-bullying policy.• Train all school employees on the policy

and the discipline procedures that goes with this



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Learn the Tools

• Familiarize themselves about all aspects of computer technology, including the mechanics of the Internet, blogs, social networking Web sites, and the liability issues associated with the use of these technologies

• NACOL lists the ability to monitor and facilitate appropriate interaction among students as a quality standard of online teaching.

• BSN offers many forms of professional development FREE to its members to help with this.



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Effective use of the Internet

• Guide teachers and students on how the Internet can serve as effective educational tools– Teacher training on how to be an effective

online teacher– Internet Safety Professional Development

– Scholar bookmark streams

• NACOL sites effective use of synchronous and asynchronous tools and appropriate online etiquette as a quality standard of online teaching.



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Social-Emotional Education

• Integrate social-emotional education into the curriculum.– Projects focus on self-understanding,

understanding of others, appreciation for diversity, and responsibility to the community.

– Service Learning opportunities

• NACOL lists the ability to create a warm inviting atmosphere in the course as a quality standard of online teaching.



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Community Partnerships

• Form a technology team that comprises staff members, parents and students to act in an advisory capacity to the larger school community

• Courses all have safety information provided for the parent, teacher and students that is pertinent to the course materials

• Focus on school-wide relationships, not only on student bullying.



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Parent outreach

• Conduct orientation sessions for parents regarding student use of the Internet

• Use the blackboard as a resource to create a course that is guest accessible by parents to post information and resources to protect their students

• Help the bullied and the bullies.• Parent access to content in Blackboard



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The Internet at Home

• Reinforce these guidelines with parents and encourage vigilance of Internet use at home, including the elimination of derogatory statements against other students or staff.



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Course Safety

• Each course has a section devoted to course information:– Parent information and connections section

– Safe Internet Research guidelines– Proper social collaboration tool etiquette– Safety in using course materials, activities,

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Steps to Whole Child Education in your district

Or classroom…

Review of Step One: Form a Good working group

• Ask your local school board to pass the resolution supporting education of the whole child.

• Present the whole child resolution for reading and offer to speak to the board concerning the need for such a movement

Step Two: Think and Act Locally

• Approach local government to embrace the whole child resolution

• Ask the school board to recommend other local officials or interest groups that they think would support the project

Step 3: Spread the Word

• Ask friends and neighbors to sign the whole child petition

• Attach the resolution and petition and take to any local social events and meetings

• Submit letters to the editor in the local newspaper



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