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Responding to Cyber Bullying

An Action Tool for School Leaders

What every school leader needs to know about cyber bullying and the law

Parents expect school leaders to resolve cyber bullying issues, yet the law is still evolving. This manual fills the gap by providing public school leaders with data-driven solutions for managing cyber bullying incidents. This book shows you how to protect yourself, your school, and your students in accordance with the law. Helpful tools include:

  • "Top Ten Rules" for addressing cyber bullying
  • Legal tests for differentiating netiquette violations from First Amendment–protected expressions
  • A matrix that provides efficient and clear decision-making guidelines

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Product Details
  • Grade Level: PreK-12, Elementary, Secondary
  • ISBN: 9781452269511
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2012
  • Page Count: 216
  • Publication date: November 27, 2012

Price: $33.95

Description

Description

"This book describes the legal precedents involved in the discipline of students who engage in this type of behavior and provides a very helpful matrix for dealing with a sensitive cyber situation. I'd recommend this text for all administrators!"
—Jill Gildea, Superintendent
Fremont School District 79, Mundelein, IL


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What every school leader needs to know about cyber bullying and the law

A parent brings a cyber bullying incident to your attention and expects you to resolve it. What are the students' rights and your responsibilities according to the law? Because the laws regarding disciplinary action are still evolving, this manual fills the gap by providing public school leaders with data-driven solutions for managing cyber bullying incidents. The authors offer clear guidance for honoring free expression while providing a safe learning environment. Helpful tools include

  • "Top Ten Rules" for addressing cyber bullying
  • Strategies for documenting aggressive cyber situations
  • User-friendly legal tests for differentiating netiquette violations from First Amendment–protected expressions
  • The MATRIX, a rubric that provides efficient and clear decision-making guidelines for determining appropriate responses to cyber bullying incidents (also available online)

Relevant case studies give examples of schools' authority to regulate, censor, or sanction inappropriate cyber expression. Mistakes can be costly, and avoiding liability is key. This book shows you how to protect yourself, your school, and your students in accordance with the law.


 


Key features

1. Comprehensive and easily applied legal tests that differentiate netiquette violations from First Amendment protected expressions.

2. Strategies for school leaders to address and document aggressive cyber situations.

3. A Cyber Bullying School Sanctioning Worksheet that provides practical C-Y-A guidelines for school decision makers. These guidelines support transparent accountability, identify specific and objective factors, and document a school's decision to sanction cyber bullying incidents.

4. Real-world cyber bullying scenarios from court cases that address the authority of schools to regulate, censor, or sanction inappropriate cyber expression by students both on and off campus.
Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface


Acknowledgments


About the Authors


Introduction: The Digital Generation Expresses Itself


Part I. Resolving School Cyber Situations


1. Untangling the Confusion Involving Public School Censorship

2. Supreme Court Speaks on Student Expression

3. The Local Take on Student Expression

4. Inappropriate Student Expressions Controlled by Fraser

5. Antipedagogical Student Expressions Controlled by Hazelwood

6. Disruptive Student Expressions Controlled by Tinker

7. School Authority Beyond the Schoolhouse Gate

8. A School's Duty to Protect

9. Proactive Approaches to Cyber Bullying

Part II. Lessons Learned and Rules to Live By


10. Four Lessons Learned From Experience

11. Top Ten Rules That Govern School Authority Over Student Cyber Expressions

Part III. The MATRIX: An Administrator's Decision-Making Tool


12. Introduction to the MATRIX

13. Working the MATRIX

Glossary


Index


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