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On  School  Climate  and  Bullying  Prevention    

The  Center  for  School  Climate  and  Learning  

Our  20  years  of  work  under  the  banner  of  Main  Street  Academix  has  demonstrated  the  power  of  student  
leaders  as  partners  for  school  reform.  We  bring  years  of  experience  working  effectively  with  school  
superintendents,  principals,  teachers,  student  leaders,  school  boards,  and  parent  groups  to  improve  school  
climate  and  learning.  For  real  change  in  schools  to  occur,  administrators,  students,  and  teachers  must  work  
together.  This  is  the  mission  of  our  Center  for  School  Climate  and  Learning—to  provide  leadership  that  
enables  schools  to  go  beyond  piecemeal  policies  and  programs  to  build  the  leadership  capacity  in  schools  to  
systemically  address  issues  such  as  bullying  while  simultaneously  working  to  improve  learning  for  every  child.    

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 Proven Strategies for Effective Bullying Prevention and
School Climate Improvement
September 2010
Dear Superintendents and Principals,
The Center for School Climate and Learning is offering schools a proven package of strategies to
effectively address new anti-bullying laws and local policies. When schools take the right steps to fulfill
these new requirements, they can make great progress toward becoming safer, more respectful, more
effective places for learning. Our research over the past 10 years shows that when students and teachers
work together to build respect, reduce bullying, and improve school climate, these schools experience a
nearly 10% increase in student academic performance.
Our 20 years of work under the banner of Main Street Academix has demonstrated the power of student
leaders as partners for school reform. We bring years of experience working effectively with school
superintendents, principals, teachers, student leaders, school boards, and parent groups to improve
school climate and learning. For real change in schools to occur, administrators, students, and teachers
must work together. This is the mission of our Center for School Climate and Learning—to provide
support that enables schools to go beyond piecemeal policies and programs to build the leadership
capacity in schools to systemically address issues such as bullying while simultaneously working to
improve learning for every child.
We firmly believe that before schools purchase new programs or adopt major changes, they first should
collect and use valid and reliable school climate data, in combination with data on student behavior and
academic learning to guide planning and decision-making. We work with principals, teachers, and a
diverse team of student leaders to collect data on your school needs, using a school climate survey
aligned with National School Climate Standards. We then custom-design intervention programs for your
school, based on your results, and help your students and teachers successfully implement powerful,
youth-centered programs to prevent bullying and improve school climate, respect, and learning. Follow-
up data collection can also be done to provide evidence of your success in effectively addressing these
issues.
As you read the descriptions below of the eight strategies that we are making available this year to
schools, we hope you will see that our approach is innovative and exciting. Let us share our tools,
knowledge, and experience with you, but only AFTER we listen to your needs, learn about your
school’s existing school improvement initiatives, and work with you to align and co-design a
customized improvement process for your school.
Please review the list of services offered by Main Street Academix and our partners at the Center for
School Climate and Learning or visit our website for more information about how we can customize
these professional development resources for your school. You may also contact us at
thecscl@gmail.com or call our office at 603-428-8706.
Sincerely,
Bill Preble
Dr. William K. Preble
Co-Founder and Executive Director
Center for School Climate and Learning (TheCSCL@gmail.com)

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 Proven Strategies for Preventing Bullying and Improving
School Climate
2010-2011

1. Student Respect and Leadership Team (R & L Team)

Our professional youth leadership consultants will help your school assemble and train an
effective, representative student respect and leadership team. We will also train 2-3 adult mentors
to work closely and effectively with this student leadership team whose mission will be “to help
create a safer, more respectful, more personally engaging school for all students." (16 hrs. of
technical assistance*).

2. Anti-Bullying Through Students’ Eyes: Innovative compliance

presentations on bullying prevention for peers, teachers, parents, and the
community
Each school is required to conduct presentations of new anti-bullying policies and requirements
to students, teachers and the community. These presentations can serve the dual purpose of
complying with state anti-bullying laws to provide information and also be an effective strategy
to build commitment, engagement, and support for this important work if the presentations are
designed with skill and creativity. These presentations offer an opportunity to expand student
leadership and have greater impact when your students help develop and conduct them. The
student presentations will show how bullying affects the personal, social, emotional, and
academic well-being of students, and how to overcome these challenges based on research and
best practices. (16 hrs. of technical assistance).

3. Use Data to Understand Bullying and School Climate Issues

Our research consultants will train your Student R & L Team to become school climate
researchers. The students will participate in focus groups and work with the principal and adult
mentors to implement a valid and reliable, school-wide School Climate Survey of students and
teachers based on National School Climate Standards. Recommendations based on your data and
sample action plans for addressing school climate needs will be provided. (8 hrs. of technical
assistance plus the cost of student and teacher surveys**).

4. Raising Students’ Voices: Anti-Bullying Feedback Process

We will work with a diverse team of students to review and understand your school or district’s
anti-bullying, anti-harassment policies, disciplinary procedures, and programs. The students will
offer school leaders feedback and suggestions to make these programs and practices most
effective, with an emphasis on offering student supports to help victims and prevent bullying, as
well as non-punitive consequences for low-level bullying based on restorative justice principles.
(8 hrs. of technical assistance).

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5. Respect Day: Building Respect and Responsibility
Our youth leadership and school climate consultants will work with your R & L Team, adult
mentors, principals, guidance counselors, or representatives from other related initiatives to plan
and implement a full-day, student and teacher workshop on Building Respect in the School for up
to 100 participants. The Respect Day event is similar to the recent “Challenge Day--if You Really
Knew Me” events currently showcased on MTV. The goals of Respect Day are to bring a diverse
group of students and some of their teachers together with skilled college-aged facilitators to
build peer and teacher trust, deepen personal and professional relationships, break stereotypes,
challenge cliques, critically analyze effective, respectful teaching practices, and identify issues
that are impacting safety, respect, and learning in a school. Participants leave Respect Day with
a commitment to take personal responsibility for creating a safer, more respectful, more effective
school. (16 hrs. of technical assistance).

6. Talking Walls: Using Public Space for Leadership and Change

We will work with your R & L Team, adult mentors, and the principal to identify a public space
(a wall) that will become the focus for communication, advocacy, student leadership, and
powerful images of school life. The Talking Wall is designed to capture the public’s attention, to
build confidence that the school is facing its real challenges, and to provide data that show
evidence of the school’s most powerful needs. The wall will be used by the R & L team to
showcase student and adult leadership efforts and interventions currently underway to promote
school improvement. The wall may feature powerful quotes or excepts from literature,
photographs taken by students and teachers, web links, and ways for students and teachers to
show their commitment to respect and responsibility for building a safer, more respectful and
effective school. A virtual/digital version of the Talking Wall is also available as an option. (16
hrs. of technical assistance).

7. School Climate and Anti Bullying Workshops

Leadership Workshops
• Using National School Climate Standards to Understand and Improve School Climate and
Learning
• Engaging Diverse Student Leaders as School Improvement Partners
• Policy Analysis and Infrastructure Development for Building Safe, Respectful Schools for School
Leaders and Administrators
• Restorative Justice: A Refreshingly Effective Approach to Improving School Discipline
• Anti-Bullying Workshops for School Leaders
• Cyber-bullying Workshops for School Leaders
• Administrative Leadership Coaching for School Climate Improvement (principals,
superintendents, curriculum and assessment specialists)

Teacher Workshops
• Strategies for Effective & Respectful Classroom Management
• Building Personalization in the Classroom
• Teaching for Relevance, Rigor, and Relationships
• Inspired Teaching Through Empowerment, Civic Engagement, and Social Justice
• Anti-Bullying Workshops for Elementary, Middle and High School Teachers
• Cyber-bullying Workshops for Middle and High School Teachers

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 Student Leadership Workshops
• Anti-Bullying Workshops for Elementary, Middle and High School Students
• Cyber-bullying Workshops for Middle and High School Students
• The Change Game Simulation: Improving School Climate and Learning Through Effective
Student Leadership
• Student Council, National Honor Society, and Student Leadership Teams Coming Together to
Improve Your School

8. SafeMeasures™: Student-led, Research-Based, School Climate

Improvement Process
We highly recommend that schools consider an annual contract for our
hallmark program, SafeMeasures which provides comprehensive,
customized technical assistance that includes all of these activities.
Schools that want to engage student leaders, teachers, and school leaders in all of these activities
and more throughout the school year may want to adopt our comprehensive, proven
SafeMeasures™ School Climate Improvement Process. Our professional facilitators help your
school set up a Student Respect and Leadership team, collect school climate data, and identify
your school’s greatest needs. We then work all year with your student leaders and adult mentors
to develop and implement a comprehensive school improvement action plan based on National
School Climate Standards. Facilitators visit your school each month to train, coach and support
your student leaders and their adult mentors. Please contact us for more information about this
comprehensive student-led, collaborative action research process. (7-12 full days of technical
assistance depending upon the customized program designed with each school).

CSCL Pricing Guide: To estimate the cost of these programs see fees below.
*Technical Assistance Fees: Pricing for technical assistance teams is based on technical
assistance time (hours for planning and implementation of projects) at a team-consulting fee of
$235 per hour; plus mileage @ .50 per mi. (or airfare and accommodations as agreed).

**Fees for Surveys: $1,800 per school (up to 500 students) for teacher and student surveys
(add $2.00 per additional student if over 500). Price includes an overview of our nationally
respected SafeMeasures™ School Climate Improvement Process, detailed instructions for survey
administration, a report of key findings for your school and recommendations for improving
school climate and reducing bullying from our national school climate experts. To include a
Parent Survey add $850.

***Pricing for Workshops: $2,500 for half day workshops, $3,000 for full day workshops plus
expenses

****Average Cost of Comprehensive, Customized SafeMeasures™ Program is $15,000 per

school/per year, with 10% reductions if more than two schools per district adopt the program.

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