An Act to increase respect
and responsibility, to set standards
for safe learning and safe teaching
in schools and to amend
the Teaching Profession Act
What is Safe Schools Act 2000 (Bill 81)?
100
The policy or practice of not tolerating undesirable behavior, such as violence or illegal drug use, especially in the automatic imposition of severe penalties for first offenses.
What is Zero Tolerance
100
Repeated verbal, physical, social or psychological behaviour that is harmful and involves the misuse of power by an individual or group towards one or more persons.
What is Bullying?
100
An approach that promotes positive student behaviour and enables the principal to choose the appropriate consequences to address inappropriate student behaviour.
What is Progressive Discipline?
100
This individual is a board employee who travels from site to site to support our long term suspended students. He also demonstrated Restorative Practices for us.
Who is Jim Reilly?
200
This Act came into effect February of 2010. It requires all staff members to report to the principal any serious incident that may lead to suspension or expulsion.
What is The Keeping Kids Safe at School Act?
200
An assessment used to identify sources of potential harm to students and adults, such as inappropriate behaviour by a student that shows signs of escalating.
What is Risk Assessment?
200
People are treated less favourably than others because of their race, culture or ethnic origin; religion; physical characteristics; gender; sexual orientation; marital, parenting or economic status; age; ability or disability.
What is discrimination?
200
Programs that are developed to battle in-school bullying.
What are Bullying Prevention Programs?
200
These law enforcement officers often become part of our school community and join us on our Threat Assessment Teams.
Who is our local police?
300
In 2005 the Safe Schools Action Team led a discussion on Safer Schools/ Safer Communities which was in response to several concerns about the former Safe Schools Act (2000). One of the biggest concerns about the former zero-tolerance policy was discrimination against minorities and this other group.
What are special needs students?
300
A crisis-response plan that outlines the roles and responsibilities of staff in dealing with risky or potentially risky behaviour by a student.
What is a Safety Plan?
300
Safety response which requires students to stay inside the school with closed curtains and locked exterior doors.
What is Hold and Secure?
300
A week in November that is dedicated to making students aware of appropriate in school behaviours toward one another.
What is Bullying Awareness Week?
300
When students are dealing with emotional issues that become more concerning this organization may be able to help
What is Children's Mental Health Association?
400
This Act came into effect in 2012 and remains in effect presently.
What is Accepting Schools Act (Bill 13)?
400
A school based team consisting of parents, administrator, students and community members. The purpose of this team is to develop safety plans and deal with safety concerns within the school.
What is a Safe Schools Team?
400
The safety response that occurs whereby the students are sequestered in a locked space with internal doors locked and inner windows covered.
What is Lockdown?
400
Refers to the encouragement of young people's active participation in shared decision making and consequent actions.
What is Student Voice?
400
All of our schools have access to individuals who acts on behalf of the student to support them in times of crisis.
Who are Child/Youth Worker, Student Success, Guidance, Chaplain, Caring Adult
500
In 1993 this suburb of Toronto was the first city to implement a zero-tolerance policy, known as the Safe Schools Policy on Weapons and Violence
What is Scarborough?
500
Sets clear standards of behaviour for individual school boards to follow, so that they can develop their own guidelines. The standards of behaviour in school board policies must be consistent with the requirements outlined in the provincial policy.
What is the Code of Conduct
500
Ways of responding to inappropriate behaviour that focus on
repairing the harm done to people and relationships rather than on punishing the offender
What is Restorative Practices?
500
Teams within the school that act upon the risk assessment of any imminent threat.
What is Threat Assessment Team?
500
This woman is the "go-to" for all disciplinary concerns. She loves to speak with parents on the phone. She is always able to diffuse a problem and is top board employee.