• What families can do at home to model Marshall L.E.A.D. expectations and to help students become familiar with Restorative Practices is to review the school’s expectations with your students. Also, to deal with challenging behaviors that students are exemplifying and/or feeling challenged by others’ behaviors, families can become familiar with Restorative Practice questions including:

    1. What happened?
    2. What were you thinking at the time?
    3. What have you thought of since that problem
    4. Who has been affected by the behavior? In what way?
    5. What do you think you need to do to make things right?
    6. What did you think when you realized what had happened?
    7. What impact has this had on you and others?
    8. What do you think needs to happen to make things right?

     

    II. Understanding more about Bullying vs. Mean child behaviors, it is important to understand the difference that could help your child be able to Recognize, Report, and Refuse bullying behaviors at school.

    1. Bullying is intentionally aggressive behavior, repeated over time, which involves an imbalance of power. Bullying may be physical aggression, relational aggression, and/or include cyberbullying. 
    2. Bullying entails three elements: an intent to harm, a power imbalance and repeated acts or threats of aggressive behavior. Students who display bullying behaviors do so or say hurtful things repeatedly and/or keep doing it without a sign of regret or remorse.
    3. Rude behaviors occur when students inadvertently say or do something that hurts someone else but may not be done in a repeated or purposeful way.
    4. Mean behaviors occur when someone says or does something to hurt someone once or maybe twice but is not targeted and is not over time.

    Please Refer to CSD Board Policy 02.25 School Bullying Prevention for additional information.

    If you are being bullied, please: 1. Tell SOMEONE- a parent, a teacher, a counselor 2. Try not to show anger or fear 3. Calmly tell the student to stop – OR say nothing and walk away

    If you know someone who is being bullied, please: 1. If you feel safe enough, tell the bully to STOP 2. If you do not feel safe: a. TELL AN ADULT b. Be a friend to the bullied student c. Do not encourage the bully by laughing or joining in d. Encourage the bullied student to talk with someone.

    For more information, please log onto CSD’s Student Manual and Board Policy 02.25 regarding Bullying and Cyberbullying (The 2022-2023 CSD Student Manual will be published in September 2022): https://www.christinak12.org/cms/lib/DE50000539/Centricity/ModuleInstance/6564/Student-Manual-2021-22-English-FINAL.pdf.

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