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Colchester Public Schools Safe School Climate Plan
Introduction
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Component Actions Person(s) Responsible Timeline
Bullying Implement and enforce Bullying Prevention and Superintendent of Schools Ongoing
Prevention and Intervention Policy School Administrators
Intervention
Policy
Notification ● Provide all school employees with a written or District Safe School Climate Annually
Requirements electronic copy of the school district's Safe School Coordinator
Climate Plan
● Notify students and parents/guardians/caregivers of the District Safe School Climate Annually
process by which students may make reports of Coordinator
bullying
● Notify students and parents/guardians of the process by District Safe School Climate Ongoing
which students may make anonymous reports of Coordinator, Specialists, and
bullying School Administrators
● The principal of a school, or the principal's designee, to
notify the appropriate local law enforcement agency School Administrators Ongoing
when such principal, or the principal's designee,
believes that any acts of bullying constitute criminal
conduct
● The Board shall make its Safe School Climate Plan Superintendent of Schools Not later than thirty
available on the Board's and each individual school in (30) calendar days
the school district's web site and ensure that the Safe after CSDE
School Climate Plan is included in the school district's approval and
publication of the rules, procedures and standards of annually thereafter
conduct for schools and in all student handbooks
Safe School ● Appoint District Safe School Climate Coordinator Superintendent of Schools, or Annually
Climate designee Annually
Committee
● Appoint Safe School Climate Specialists in each school Principals Ongoing
to lead a Safe School Climate Committee
● Establish roles, responsibilities and procedures for Safe District Safe School Climate
School Climate Committee including: Coordinator and Safe School
o Attend training in the investigation of bullying Climate Specialists
o Conduct investigations
o Receive copies of completed reports following
investigations of bullying
o Identify and address patterns of bullying among
students in the school
o Review and make recommendations to amend
school policies relating to bullying
o Review and make recommendations to the
district safe school climate coordinator
regarding the district's safe school climate plan
and forms based on issues and experiences
specific to the school
o Educate students, school employees and parents
and guardians of students on issues relating to
bullying
o Collaborate with the district safe school climate
coordinator in the collection of data regarding
bullying, in accordance with the law
o Perform any other duties as determined by the
school principal that are related to the
prevention, identification and response to
school bullying for the school
Prevention and ● Identify effective evidence-based prevention and Director of Curriculum, Ongoing
Intervention intervention strategies. Strategies may include, but are Instruction, Safe School Climate
Strategy not limited to the following: District Coordinator and Safe
o Implement a positive behavioral interventions School Climate Specialists
and supports process or another evidence-based
curriculum for safe school climate or for the Identified teachers Ongoing
prevention of bullying
o Make students aware of school rules
prohibiting bullying, harassment and School Administrators and Ongoing
intimidation and establish appropriate Teachers
consequences for those who engage in such acts
o Provide adult supervision of outdoor areas,
hallways, the lunchroom, the bus, at school School Administrators and Ongoing
sponsored events, on school-owned devices and School Employees
other specific areas where bullying is likely to
occur
o Inclusion of grade-appropriate bullying
education and prevention curricula in Director of Curriculum and Ongoing
kindergarten through high school Instruction, Identified Teachers
o Develop individual interventions with the bully,
parents and school employees, and interventions Safe School Climate Specialists Ongoing
with the bullied child, parents and school and School Administrators
employees
o Plan and initiate school-wide training related to
safe school climate, to include relevant training Director of Curriculum and Annual
in Title IX/Sexual Harassment, Section Instruction/School Principals
504/ADA, and cultural diversity
o Student peer training, education and support,
including advocacy for victims Ongoing
o Direct the development of student safety
support plans for students against whom an act
of bullying was directed that address safety
measures the school will take to protect such
students against further acts of bullying
o Training in prevention, identification and
response to teen dating violence and bullying School Administrators
● Implement the evidence-based prevention and Identified School Employees
intervention strategies identified
Assessment of ● Complete an assessment using the school climate Safe School Climate Committee Biennially
School assessment instruments including survey and focus
Climate groups
● Review and analyze data obtained from climate Safe School Climate Committee Ongoing
surveys/ make necessary modifications to the district
plan
● Meet with Safe School Climate Specialists at least District Safe School Climate Two times per
twice during each school year to discuss issues related Coordinator school year
to school climate/bullying
Training ● Require that all school employees annually complete District Safe School Climate Annually
the training described in Conn. Gen. Stat. §§10-220a or Coordinator and Specialists
10-222j related to the identification, prevention and
response to bullying
● Provide a prevention and intervention strategy for
school employees to deal with bullying and teen dating
violence
● Provide annual notice to students and School Principal Annually
parents/guardians/caregivers of the process by which
bullying reports are made
● Provide all school employees with written or electronic Superintendent of Schools Annually at
copy of school district’s safe school climate plan beginning of school
● Provide on the Board’s website training materials to Director of Curriculum and year
school administrators regarding the prevention of and Instruction
intervention in discrimination against and targeted
harassment of students based on such students’ (1)
actual or perceived differentiating characteristics, such
as race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, gender,
sexual orientation, gender identity or expression,
socioeconomic status, academic status, physical
appearance or mental, physical, developmental or
sensory disability, or (2) association with individuals or
groups who have or are perceived to have one or more
of such characteristics
● Train Safe School Climate Specialists in the District Safe School Climate Annually
investigation procedures Coordinator
Reporting ● Orally notify the Safe School Climate Specialist after All school employees Not later than one
Procedures being witness to acts of bullying or receiving reports of school day
bullying witnessing/receiving
● File a written report with the Safe School Climate All school employees report
Specialist after being witness to acts of bullying or
receiving reports of bullying
● Any student who believes s/he has been the victim of All Students Not later than two
bullying/cyberbullying or who has witnessed bullying school days of oral
behavior should report the matter to any school notification
employee, either in writing or anonymously
● Parent(s)/guardian(s)/caregiver(s) may file written All Ongoing
reports of Suspected bullying/cyberbullying. Parents/Guardians/Caregivers
● Report acts of bullying that may constitute a criminal School administrator Ongoing
offense to appropriate law enforcement
● Establish a procedure for each school to document and
maintain records relating to reports and investigations
of bullying in such school and to maintain a list of the
number of verified acts of bullying in such school and
make such list available for public inspection, and
annually report such number to the Department of
Education and in such manner as prescribed by the
Commissioner of Education
Investigation ● Investigate all reports of bullying and ensure that such Safe School Climate Promptly
investigation is completed promptly after receipt of any Specialists/School
written reports Administrators
● Review any anonymous reports, except that no Safe School Climate Promptly
disciplinary action shall be taken solely on the basis of Specialists/School
an anonymous report Administrators
● Determine whether the alleged conduct occurred & Safe School Climate Upon completion of
whether such conduct constitutes bullying as defined in Specialists/School investigation
the district policy Administrators
● Investigate bullying incidents that raise concerns about School administrators refer As indicated
discrimination or harassment on basis of legally investigations to Director of
protected classifications Pupil Services
● Notify the parents/caregivers of the victim and the School Administrators Promptly
parents/caregivers of the student alleged to have
committed acts of bullying that an investigation has
commenced
Response to ● Take prompt corrective action that is reasonably Safe School Climate Upon determination
Verified Acts calculated to stop the bullying and prevent any Specialists/School that bullying has
of Bullying recurrence of such behavior, if it is determined that Administrators occurred
bullying has occurred
● Notify the parents/guardians/caregivers of students who School Administrators Not later than 48
commit any verified acts of bullying and the parents or hours after the
guardians of students against whom such acts were completion of the
directed. The notification required shall include a investigation
description of the response of school employees to such
acts and any consequences that may result from the
commission of further acts of bullying. Any
information provided under this policy or
accompanying Safe School Climate Plan shall be
provided in accordance with the confidentiality
restrictions imposed under the Family Educational
Rights Privacy Act ("FERPA") and the district's
Confidentiality and Access to Student Information
policy and regulations.
● Invite the parent(s)/guardian(s)/caregiver(s) of students School Administrator Upon determination
who engage in any verified acts of bullying after the that bullying has
completion of the investigation to a meeting at which occurred
the following will be shared:
1. A description of the verified act(s).
2. A description of the school’s interventions in
response to the act(s).
3. Consequences, as appropriate
● Invite the parent(s)/guardian(s)/caregiver(s) of any School Administrator Upon determination
student against whom an act of bullying was verified that bullying has
after the completion of the investigation at which the occurred
following information will be shared:
1. A description of the verified act(s).
2. A description of the school’s interventions
designed to keep the student safe & prevent any
further acts of bullying.
3. The content of the student safety support plan.
● Develop a student safety support plan for any student Safe School Climate Upon determination
against whom an act of bullying was directed. The plan Specialists/School that bullying has
shall address safety measures the school will take to Administrators occurred
protect such students against further acts of bullying.
● Develop case-by-case interventions to address repeated Safe School Climate Upon determination
incidents of bullying against a single individual or Specialists/School that bullying has
recurrently perpetrated bullying incidents by the same Administrators occurred
individual that may include both counseling and
discipline.
Documentation ● Establish a procedure for each school to: District Safe School Climate July 1, 2021
and Record o Document and maintain records relating to Coordinator
Keeping reports and investigations of bullying in the
school.
o Maintain a list of the number of verified acts of
bullying in the school and make such list
available for public inspection. This public list
must not contain any personally identifiable
information about any student or information
that might reasonably lead to the identification
of any student.
● Report the number of verified acts of bullying in the District Safe School Climate Annually based on
district’s schools to the Department of Education in Coordinator timeline established
such manner as prescribed by the Commissioner of by CSDE
Education