Build an inclusive school culture:
The foundation to a bully-free school is an inclusive school culture where every student is accepted for who they are.
STUDENT LIFE
No Bully System
Solution Teams to Support Our Learners
We will make every possible effort to provide a learning environment where students are safe, supported, and free from harm. AISG recognizes the significant long-term impacts bullying can have on the well-being of both bullies and victims. Therefore, we incorporate all members of our community, including students, parents, faculty, staff, and administration to proactively prevent bullying and support one another when bullying does occur. Anti-bullying training is currently in place for employees and students, specifically:
AISG employees are trained in recognizing, responding to and reporting bullying, and use the school’s policies and procedures when working with students involved in bullying. Additionally, AISG works carefully to educate students on what bullying is, and how to recognize, respond to and report bullying that may take place.
Students receive age-appropriate anti-bullying curriculum to develop social-emotional skills of children, including empathy, social problem solving, assertiveness, friendship skills, emotion awareness and regulation, and bystander/upstander behaviors.
AISG Social Vision
AISG is a community where every voice is valued, and each person can be who they truly are.
What is Bullying?
Bullying occurs when a student, or group of students, repeatedly try to hurt, humiliate, or get power over another student in any of the following ways.
- Physical Bullying
- Verbal Bullying
- Relational Bullying
- Cyberbullying
Physical bullying
is when a student uses physical force to hurt another student (e.g. by hitting, pushing, shoving, kicking, taking a student’s belongings or stealing their money).
Bullying is different from conflict. Conflict is an inevitable part of life and can occur when a student perceives another student as being an obstacle to what they want or value. If students are in conflict but are not engaging in bullying, our school is committed to helping the students solve their issues or disagreements.
Bullying may at times amount to harassment. It is harassment to target a student online or face-to-face because of their actual or perceived disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, immigrant status, race or ethnicity, age, religion, sexual orientation, or because they are associated with a student or group of students with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics.
It is sexual harassment to target a student with unwanted sexual comments, gestures, attention, stalking, and physical contact that cause a student to feel uncomfortable or unsafe at school or interferes with a student’s schoolwork.
Our school does not tolerate bullying or harassment for any reason. It is also a serious breach of school rules if a student takes revenge or asks someone to threaten or hurt a student that has reported bullying or harassment.
Together we have the power to make AISG school bully-free
AISG is committed to a bully-free environment and has teamed with The Power of Zero to implement the No Bully System. The No Bully System guides school leaders and teachers how to create a bully-free school and how to respond effectively to the incidents that still occur.
Requires bullying students to take responsibility for ending their behavior
Recognizes and addresses systemic nature of bullying
Engages larger peer groups and systems for change
Leverages cooperation, relationship, compassion, and empathy
Aligns with different restorative justice programs
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Staff, Teacher, and Parent Response to Bullying
AISG does not tolerate bullying at any level. Every instance of suspected or confirmed bullying will be thoroughly investigated and confirmed cases responded to with consequences up to and including expulsion. The developmental maturity levels of the parties, the levels of harm, the reasons surrounding the incident, the nature of the bullying, the context in which the alleged incidents occurred, and the history of the parties involved will be considered when posing consequences. Additionally, AISG supports both students and their families in differentiating between bullying and conflict and aiding in the healing and learning process.
The AISG Community agrees to join together to treat others with respect, both online and face-to-face so that we keep our campus bully-free.AISG takes a solution and safety-focused approach when addressing bullying. We have faculty members who are trained as Solution Coaches® to bring together a Solution Team ® of students to help end bullying situations. Research has shown that Solution Teams successfully end bullying situations in the vast majority of cases after three meetings. Our school follows the No Bully System to prevent and respond to bullying and harassment.
No Bully System
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Prevent & Interrupt
All faculty, staff, students, administrators, and volunteers support a campus-wide system for preventing and responding to harassment and bullying.
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If any faculty or staff member witness’s student aggression or disrespect, they will take
immediate steps to intervene and redirect students.
If a caregiver knows or suspects that their child is being harassed or bullied, they should
encourage their child to ask the bullying student (or students) to stop or to seek help from any
trusted adult on campus. If this does not solve the situation, please notify the Assistant
Principal in our Elementary School or the Dean of Students in our Secondary School. The school
can only help you if you reach out and tell us what is happening.