CUBE Issues Seminar: Connecting with Communities to Create Safe Urban Schools
June 23-25, 2006
Renaissance Chicago Hotel
Chicago, Illinois
CUBE encourages urban districts to use this special opportunity to bring a team of leaders from your district (which may include board members, superintendents, school counselors, and school resource officers) to explore the link between the social environment and the learning environment as it concerns safe schools, while learning how other urban districts are tackling this number one issue for parents and urban communities. Select seminar handouts are posted below.
Additional Resources
CUBE 2006 Issues Seminar Brochure
Registration and program information.
Seminar Agenda
June 23-25, 2006 at the Renaissance Chicago Hotel in Chicago, Illinois.
Briefing: Developing School Board Policies and Legal Issues to Support Safe Schools
Provides an overview of the guiding principles to keep in mind when developing and implementing school board policies that support safe schools and address the legal components that relate to topics such as discipline and due process, threats of violence, suspension and expulsion, and zero tolerance.
Racial Isolation Task Force: Racial Disparities & Discipline
Racial inequities in the frequency and severity of student discipline are well documented. Whatever the causes, there is consensus that something must be done to change this phenomenon.
General Session I - Helping Students Afflicted by Fear
Students are routinely bullied, harassed, discriminated against, and humiliated during the school day.
Governance & Training Task Force: Cyberbullying
Cyberbullying and cyberthreats through use of the Internet and other mobile communication devices have arisen in the past decade as new mediums for verbal violence, harassment, denigration, impersonation, and exclusion.