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Peninsula School District rolls out districtwide bullying response: single handbook, behavior matrix and staff training
Summary
At its Sept. 23 meeting the Peninsula School District board received an update from the harassment, intimidation and bullying (HIB) task force on new trainings, a consolidated Rights & Responsibilities handbook, a uniform behavior matrix and reporting tools designed to improve consistency and data tracking across the district.
The Peninsula School District Board of Directors on Sept. 23 heard a progress report from the district's harassment, intimidation and bullying task force outlining new training, reporting and discipline changes intended to make responses more consistent across all 17 schools.
The task force presenter, Julie Schultz Bartlett, said the district has moved from 17 different handbooks to a single districtwide Rights & Responsibilities handbook and adopted a uniform behavior matrix aligned with Washington Administrative Code (WAC) expectations. "The number 1 thing is to say something along the lines of 'stop. That's not what we do here,' and then to report that," Schultz…
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