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Recorded: July 19, 2012

Overview

This webinar will focus on how a safe and positive school environment is critical to improving student attendance, engagement and achievement in school. CSBA's School Wellness Consultant, Betsy McNeil, and Community Matters' Executive Director, Rick Phillips, will:.

• Explore the changing nature of bullying
• Highlight successful approaches and solutions to preventing and stopping bullying and cyberbullying
• Provide best practice recommendations of what leaders can do to improve school climate

Resources:

• Download the presentation slides 
• Policy Brief: Providing a Safe, Nondiscriminatory School Environment for All Students (4/10) 
• Policy Brief: Cyberbullying: Policy Considerations for Boards (7/10) 
• Policy Brief: Community Schools: Partnerships supporting students, families and communities (10/10) 
• Safe Schools: Strategies for Governing Boards to Ensure Student Success (CSBA guidebook) 
• Health Ed Content Standards: California Dept. of Education 
• NSBA - Addressing School Climate in your Community: Students on Board
• CSBA Sample Board Policy: Bullying BP 5131.2 
• CSBA Sample Board Policy: Conduct BP 5131 
• CSBA Sample Board Policy: Comprehensive Safety Plan BP 0450 
• CSBA Sample Board Policy: Nondiscrimination/Harassment BP 5145.3 
• CSBA Sample Board Policy: Sexual Harassment BP 5145.7 
• CSBA Sample Administrative Regulation: Sexual Harassment AR 5145.7