Kind and Safe Schools Initiative – KASSI
Kind and Safe Schools Initiative
Implementing KASSI
KASSI can be implemented as a part of a community-wide Kindness Campaign or be a stand-alone project in any school. The community-wide Kindness Campaign is often so effective that the organizers naturally want to expand and extend the community-based principles and philosophy more deeply its schools. Either way, the steps for implementing KASSI in a school are summarized below.
Spreading Kindness: Volume I: A Guide For Implementing The Kind and Safe Schools Initiative
here are three program guides associated with KASSI. All three programs are downloadable to your computer. First, you will need to purchase Spreading Kindness Volume I: A Guide for Implementing the Kind And Safe Schools Initiative. This Program Guide gives you a step-by-step process to guide you in implementing KASSI in your school. Below is a brief summary of these initial implementation tips contained in Volume I: The Implementation Guide.
There are two additional program guides, Spreading Kindness: Volumes II and III, that you will need to purchase in order to fully implement the KASSI program for your school. The description below explains how the additional program guides might be utilized as part of the complete implementation of KASSI..
I. Implement KASSI to Change the School Climate
a. Discuss the purposes of KASSI with faculty and staff at a regular staff/faculty meeting
b. Select a KASSI Coordinating Committee & School Coordinator (s) (You need to include students on this Committee)
c. Have committee design program to meet school needs and select the activities to use from Volume II of the Program Guides containing 180 field-tested all-school and classroom activities
d. Offer in-service training for the staff and faculty on what is expected of them to implement KASSI
e. Organize kick-off assembly or classroom presentations to introduce KASSI to the students
f. Follow up regularly with faculty & students, and hold regular meetings of the KASSI Coordinating Committee to review progress
g. Help start Kind Kids Council(s)
h. Create an Evaluation Plan for KASSI in your school and conduct on-going evaluation of outcome criteria. Volume I will provide you with all the information you need to create an Evaluation Plan, including the evaluation instruments.
II. Design & Use All-School Bullying Prevention Activities
a. Conduct student/faculty survey/needs assessment of bullying in the school
b. Do in-service for faculty & staff (utilize data from surveys) on bullying prevention
c. Design classroom activities for students to address bullying prevention
d. Develop classroom and school rules designed for bullying prevention
e. Do follow-up with teachers and students
III. Create Other School Bullying Prevention Programs
a. Purchase Volume III of the Spreading Kindness Program Guides. It contains activities on how to start a peer mediation/counseling program, the lessons for a semester-long conflict resolution curriculum and instructions of how to create a restorative justice program: in your school..
b. Develop a peer mediation/counseling program for your school
c. Establish a conflict resolution curriculum for all students (you can select a grade level to target)
d. Create a Restorative Justice School Discipline Program (this would replace or supplement the traditional school discipline program)
Purchase Kind and Safe Schools Initiative Guides
KASSI Volume I
A Program Guide for the Kind & Safe Schools Initiative, Volume 1: Implementing the Kind & Safe Schools Initiative – This program guide, available in downloadable ebook format, contains a step-by-step process for implementing the various components of the Kind & Safe Schools Initiative. It includes practical information drawn from over ten years of experience in implementing components of the Kind and Safe Schools Initiative (KASSI) in schools.
Price: $100
KASSI Volume II
A Program Guide for the Kind & Safe Schools Initiative, Volume II: Character Education & Bullying Prevention Activities- This program guide, available in downloadable ebook format, contains over 180 easy-to-use, field-tested activities for K-12 schools to help them create a character education and bullying prevention program. Includes activities for promoting kindness, cooperative learning, positive peer culture, service learning, and bullying prevention. Some activities are for the whole school, some for the classroom, and some for counseling groups.
Price: $100
KASSI Volume III
A Program Guide for the Kind & Safe Schools Initiative, Volume III – Conflict Resolution, Peer Mediation, and Restorative Justice Activities – This program guide for KASSI, available in downloadable e-book format, contains over 100 easy-to-use, field-tested activities for K-12 schools to help them create conflict resolution, peer mediation, and restorative justice programs. Includes outline and learning activities for teaching a six-week conflict resolution class to all students.
Price: $100