McGrath CyberSchool: Staff Awareness Curriculum

Sexual Abuse and Misconduct - Staff Awareness

Participants will learn to:

• Identify the behavior of sexual abuse and misconduct
• Avoid harm and liability with trusted methods and techniques
• Understand the importance of boundaries
• Identify patterns of victimization and behavioral warning signs in victims
• Recognize the profile and behaviors of a perpetrator – male or female

For: All administrators and staff, parents, volunteers, and coaches.
Note: This program and the one below complies with legal requirements for training in California and Connecticut; call us to see if your state has specific sexual harassment training requirements.

Sexual Harassment - Staff Awareness

Participants will learn:

• To identify different types of sexual harassment - employee to employee, employee to student, student to student, and student to employee
• Methods and techniques to avoid harm and liability
• What sexual harassment is, as well as what it looks and feels like
• What their rights and responsibilities are as school employees
• What they need to know to contribute to a safe, respectful work and school environment
• Steps to take should they observe or experience sexual harassment

For: All personnel employed by school districts.

Bullying at School - Staff Awareness

Participants will learn:

• To understand bullying, its repercussions, and the district’s and employee’s legal duty to effectively intervene
• To identify three types of bullies and dispel ten common myths regarding bullying
• The victim’s perspective: the physical, emotional and academic effects of bullying
• How to recognize and intervene in social scheming and technobullying trends such as three-way calling attacks, instant messaging, blogging, online impersonation, rumor spreading, and more
• The McGrath five-point criterion for identifying what is illegal and potentially actionable behavior under the law

For: All school employees.