Reading Plus - Supporting Vulnerable Readers and Everybody Else
Learning in Safe Schools- All Children Belong
1. Learning In Safe
Schools
“All Children Belong!”
Marilyn Caldwell
November 2, 2012
2. Current Practises
Pro Active
Tribes
Second Step
Roots of Empathy
Aboriginal Language and Culture
Positive Action
Counselling
Diversity Clubs
Focus on Bullying
Vancouver Coastal Health
5. A five-year, multi-level training program for education
and community partners to help them proactively identify
and address threats. Spring 2013
Preventing One day session for elementary
Bullying1 teacher/1 admin from each school
Basic Risk 2 day training sessions
Assessment 2 reps from each mid/high school
Admin/Counsellor/Community members
New online tools, including a Smartphone app, for kids to
report bullying anonymously.
Available before Winter Break
We already have www.psstworld.com
6. Dedicated safe school co-ordinators in every school
district – January 2013
Marilyn Caldwell. Rose Mackenzie, Lisa McCullough
Stronger codes of conduct for schools
Done 2012
7. Provincial guidelines for threat assessments.
Coming from the Ministry of Education
On line materials for parents
Coming from the Ministry of Education
8. Formal protocols to guide and co-ordinate the
work of school and community partners
Tri ministerial protocols on:
Child Abuse
Risk Assessment
Suicide Postvention
Threat Assessment (Spring 2013)
9. A provincial advisory committee with
representatives from police, school and social
agency partners.
Anti-bullying and threat assessment training for
pre-service teachers: Universities
10. Focusing one of the existing six provincial
teacher professional development days on anti-
bullying.
Today!