Wear Blue on Mondays in October
"October is National Bullying Prevention Month. All BCSD schools are invited to wear blue every Monday in an effort to promote kindness, acceptance, and inclusion all week long. Schools and classrooms will also be doing lessons and activities to help prevent bullying. Brainstorm ways you and your student can show kindness, acceptance and inclusion each and every day.
Bullying Is
Purpose:
Purposefully hurtful behavior (physical or emotional)
Pattern:
Repeated
Power:
Involves an imbalance of power
Remember the 3 Ps:
Purpose, Pattern, Power
Upstanders
Shift from a bystander to an Upstander and stand up for others
Speak Out
Interrupt
Be a Buddy
Tell Someone
When teaching your children about bully prevention, remind them to “See it, Stop it, Report it.” When we teach our students what bullying is and how to report it we can make our schools safer places to be!