Using Data to Make Good Decisions Addressing Bullying, School Climate and Culture in Your School.

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Using Data to Make Good Decisions Addressing
Bullying, School Climate and Culture in Your
School.

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  Iowa Olweus Trainers
• Kathy Lockard, AEA 13/14
• Jaymie Randel, AEA 267
• Karolyn Zeller, AEA 11
• Penny Bisignano, Iowa Olweus Coordinator

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Objectives

• Participants will be introduced to the national
  movement from traditional ways of defining safe
  schools to new ways
• Participants will be introduced to the right
  questions to ask about safe schools
• Participants will deepen their understanding of
  the IYS and OBQ for decision-making

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U.S Department of Education

• President Obamas Aspiration
• Produce a higher percentage of college
  graduates than any other country in the world by
  the end of the next decade.

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Secretary Duncans Assurances

• Goal 1 Adopt Rigorous Standards
• Goal 2 Recruit and Retain Effective Teachers
• Goal 3 Build Data Systems
• Goal 4 Turn Around Low-Performing Schools

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Alignment with Safe Schools

• Goal 1 Adopt Rigorous Standards
• Safe Schools Need School Climate Standards
• Goal 3 Build Data Systems
• Safe Schools Measure School Climate with the Same
  Rigor They Measure Academic Progress

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Kevin JenningsAssistant Deputy Secretary of
Education

• Its simple.
• Students cant learn if they dont feel safe.
• Period.

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Facts and Figures Handout

• What surprises you about the information?
• What concerns you about the information?
• What questions does the information raise?

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Traditional View Says

• Were doing great if there is no
• Theft
• Violence
• Serious Violence
• Thus, in the traditional view, low victimizations
  and school associated homicides equaled a safe
  school.
• Kevin Jennings, Dec. 2009

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Like the Titanic.. the problems often occur
below the surface
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U.S. Department of Ed

• Behavior such as verbal threats, hate language,
  bullying, and social rejection is almost twice as
  likely to cause students to skip school and avoid
  places/activities than theft and attacks.
• Kevin Jennings December, 2009

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Passive Acceptance of Injustice - 1400 K-12
students answered, When I see someone being
teased or hit, I think....
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Moving from the Traditional View

• In a Truly Safe School Every Student Feels
• They Belong.
• They are Valued.
• They are Physically and Emotionally Safe.

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The Law

• Iowa is committed to providing all students with
  a safe and civil school environment in which all
  members of the school community are treated with
  dignity and respect.

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Bullying Defined

• A student is being bullied when he or she is
  exposed, repeatedly and over time, to negative
  actions on the part of one or more students.
  Bullying implies an imbalance in power or
  strength. The student who is bullied has
  difficulty defending himself/ herself.
• Dan Olweus (1993)

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Questions for Your School

• How many students are being bullied at school?
• How often are students afraid of being bullied at
  school?
• Where is bullying taking place at your school?

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Questions for Your School

• How often do adults at school intervene when they
  see a student being bullied?
• How many students being bullied tell an adult at
  school?
• How often do students try to put a stop to
  bullying when a student is being bullied at
  school?

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What Data Sources Might Answer These Questions?

• Student Surveys
• Student Self Reports
• Student Interviews
• Parent/family Reports
• Community Reports

• Bullying Surveys
• Climate Surveys
• Educator Observations
• National Data
• Iowa Data

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Iowa Youth Survey
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Olweus Bullying Questionnaire
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3 Iowa Olweus Schools (1300 Students)
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What works in reducing bullying?Moving from
reaction to prevention!

• School- school wide committee, all staff trained,
  school wide curriculum, classroom meetings,
  teaching and reinforcing rules against bullying,
  ongoing efforts to sustain, evaluation of
  effectiveness in reducing bullying
• Classroom- class meetings held at least weekly in
  every class, circles used for structure, specific
  curriculum delivered to all, teaching and
  reinforcing rules against bullying,

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What works in reducing bullying?

• Individual- On-the-spot interventions done with
  effectiveness by all staff, follow-up to all
  interventions for all parties, communication with
  parents/families of those involved in bullying
  incidents, consequences for bullying consistently
  applied
• Parents/families- participation on the
  coordinating committee, part of school/community
  campaigns to reduce bullying, participants in a
  kickoff to begin the campaign, part of the
  ongoing evaluation of effectiveness

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What works in reducing bullying?

• Community- leaders in community campaigns to
  reduce bullying in schools and community, members
  of the coordinating committee, engaged with
  school, families and youth to reduce bullying

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Schools Report Bullying in Iowa

• Information on what schools report, the new pilot
  for Iowa and how to get that data in your school.

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What is on top for you?
Penny Bisignano 515-306-4847 bisignanoconsulting_at_g
mail.com