Community of Respect Everywhere (C.O.R.E.)

1. C.O.R.E.
Community of
Respect
Everywhere

2. Community of Respect Everywhere
Bullying (From BISD’s Code of Conduct)
Bullying means engaging in wriCen or verbal expression or physical conduct
that school personnel determine:
Will have the effect of physically harming a student, damaging a student’s
property, or placing a student in reasonable fear of harm to the student’s
person or of damage to the student’s property or is sufficiently severe,
persistent, or pervasive enough that the acKon or threat creates an
inKmidaKng, threatening, or abusive educaKonal environment for the
student (Texas EducaKon Code 25.0342).
No student shall engage in any form of bullying, nor shall any student
encourage or assist any other person in bullying.

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Staff: Are you a bully?
In addiKon to the state’s definiKon of bullying, staff also bully when
they consistently use degrading negaKve comments openly about
a student or students. Whether this is one student or a whole
class, it is sKll bullying.

4. Community of Respect Everywhere
Cyberbullying
Bullying doesn’t just happen face to face. It includes electronic
communicaKons, including: e‐mail, Facebook, TwiCer, text
messaging, etc.

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What Bullying is Not
Bullying does not include normal childhood behavior such as sibling rivalry or one‐on‐one
fighKng of siblings or peers with compeKng claims. Nor does it include acts of impulsive
aggression‐—in other words, aggression that is a spontaneous, indiscriminate striking
out, with no intended target. Such aggression is oXen related to a physical or mental
handicap, such as auKsm or Asperger’s syndrome (high funcKoning auKsm), and must
not be dismissed or excused, but it is not bullying. Spontaneous, deliberate,
indiscriminate striking out also may be a response by a bullied kid to an aCack by a
bully, but it is not bullying.
Bullying does not include criminal acKviKes that may have begun as a conflict and
escalated.
Source:
Excerpts from The Bully the Bullied, and the Bystander, Barbara Coloroso © 2002 www.kidsareworthit.com kids are worth it, inc. 800.729.1588 • fax 303.972.1204

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Teasing vs Taun:ng: There is a difference
Teasing is a fun thing you can do with your friends‐‐–with people you care about.
TaunKng is a choice to bully someone for whom you have contempt.
Teasing
1. Allows the teaser and person teased to swap roles with ease.
2. Isn’t intended to hurt the other person.
3. Maintains the basic dignity of everyone involved.
4. Pokes fun in a lighthearted, clever, and benign way.
5. Is meant to get both parKes to laugh.
6. Is only a small part of the acKviKes shared by kids who have something in common.
7. Is innocent in moKve.
8. Is disconKnued when person teased becomes upset or objects to the teasing.

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Taun)ng
1. Is based on an imbalance of power and is one‐sided: the bully taunts, the bullied
kid is taunted.
2. Is intended to harm.
3. Involves humiliaKng, cruel, demeaning, or bigoted comments thinly disguised as
jokes.
4. Includes laughter directed at the target, not with the target.
5. Is meant to diminish the sense of self‐worth of the target.
6. Induces fear of further taunKng or can be a prelude to physical bullying.
7. Is sinister in moKve.
8. ConKnues especially when targeted kids become distressed or object to the taunt.

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Flir:ng vs. Sexual Bullying
Flir:ng
1. Allows and invites both persons to swap roles with ease.
2. Isn’t intended to hurt the other person—is an expression of desire.
3. Maintains the basic dignity of both persons.
4. Is meant to be flaCering and complimentary.
5. Is an invitaKon to have fun together and enjoy each other’s company.
6. Invited sexual aCenKon.
7. Is intended to make the other person feel wanted, aCracKve, and in control.
8. Is disconKnued when the person who is being flirted with becomes upset, objects to the flirKng, or
is not interested.
FlirKng has playfulness about it that sexual bullying does not. It is never intended to harm and is an
invitaKon for two people to get to know each other beCer. As with any other invitaKon, it can be
accepted or rejected—and the person who iniKated the flirKng honors either response.

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Sexual Bullying
1. Is based on an imbalance of power and is one‐sided: the bully sexually taunts, the bullied kid is
demeaned and degraded.
2. Is intended to harm and exploit.
3. Is invasive and intended to assert the status of the bully.
4. Is intended to be degrading and demeaning.
5. Is intended to express control and dominaKon.
6. Is intended to violate the boundaries of the target.
7. Is intended to make the other person feel rejected, ugly, powerless, or uncomfortable.
8. ConKnues especially when targeted kid becomes distressed or objects to the sexual comment.
In sexual bullying there is no invitaKon—just an aCack. The target is embarrassed, humiliated, and
shamed and tends to feel powerless. It is not the intenKon of the bully to engage in healthy sexual
flirtaKon with another person—the aCack is meant to hurt. If the target protests, he/she is oXen
labeled a “bitch” who is upKght and can’t take a joke.
Source:
Excerpts from The Bully the Bullied, and the Bystander, Barbara Coloroso © 2002 www.kidsareworthit.com kids are worth it, inc. 800.729.1588 • fax 303.972.1204

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What have we done?
• Developed protocol and procedures for reporKng incidents on campus.
• Contacted and consulted with Barbara Coloroso, internaKonally renowned expert
• Arranged presentaKon by speaker JusKn Lookadoo for counselors, task force members,
principals and Leadership on communicaKon, respect and climate change
• Expand Crime Stoppers on every campus
• Reinstate character educaKon/virtues…C.O.R.E. values
• Developed Safety Zone website

11. Community of Respect Everywhere
Community of Respect Everywhere, C.O.R.E., is an ongoing iniKaKve throughout
Birdville ISD backed by the philosophy that promotes posiKve and safe learning
climates while developing responsibility, accountability and respect. Each of us
teaches character educaKon by the way we talk, the behaviors we model, the
conduct we tolerate, the deeds we encourage, and the expectaKons we
transmit.
It is not one more thing on our plate … it is the plate.

12. Community of Respect Everywhere
C.O.R.E. Values for 2010‐11 School Year
• First six weeks – Responsibility
• Second six weeks – Empathy
• Third six weeks – Kindness
• Fourth six weeks – Honesty
• FiXh six weeks – Acceptance
• Sixth six weeks – Courage

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Community of Respect Everywhere – C.O.R.E.
SuggesKons for Campus ImplementaKon
• Establish a campus task force to facilitate/oversee iniKaKves–include students
from all ranges
• Write campus pledge, signed by all staff members, outlining code of conduct
• Incorporate weekly messages of respect/responsibility over announcements, in
newsleCers, on website using video clips, public service announcements,
moKvaKonal quotes, etc.
• Adopt a community service project in which all staff and students can
parKcipate
• Develop mentoring programs between staff and students of HS/MS/ES feeders
• Honor random acts of kindness/community heroes

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“In any moment of decision, the best
thing you can do is the right thing. The
worst thing you can do is nothing” ~
Theodore Roosevelt