1. November 25, 2009

2. What is it? Internationally recognized Research based Preventive and responsive For all students Focus is on changing norms and restructuring the school setting

3. Why Olweus? 1.PA has mandated bullying prevention policies for all school districts. 2.Elanco applied for and received grant monies for bullying prevention. 3.Olweus is widely regarded as the most successful bullying prevention program. 4.It specifically addresses the bullying prevention component of our existing Safe and Civil Schools initiative which is designed to improve overall school safety and climate.

4. When will Olweus be fully implemented? August 2010

5. What are some of the components and timeline of the plan? Beginning December 2009: Dramatic increase in supervision in hallways during whole school transitions. December 7, 2009: Revised recess and cafeteria dismissal plan. Winter 2010: School wide positive reinforcement plan. February 12, 2009 in service: Faculty training Summer 2010: Support staff training September 2010: Reinforce existing school rules with more specific anti-bullying language September 2010: School wide reporting and consequences. Voluntary March 2009, Required September 2010: 20-30 minute class meetings once a week/cycle

6. Ticket out the door: Please share the following three points with your grade level colleagues: 1.We will be dramatically increasing hallway supervision in December. 2.We will we tweaking the lunch dismissal procedure beginning December 7. 3.We will be getting trained in Olweus at the February in-service.