The third full week of October is Kentucky Safe Schools Week! Schools across Kentucky focus on school safety issues in classrooms, in their schools and in their communities.

This year's theme is “BE INCREDIBLE, Reveal Your SUPERhero This year's theme is “BE INCREDIBLE, Reveal Your SUPERhero!” Being incredible is being the best you can possibly be. Every student has incredible super skills and talents that make them unique and strong. We need our students to ban together with school staff and the community to create a “family-like” culture at school. Incredible super powers can be used fighting against bullying, cyberbullying, harassment, conflict, hate and violence while spreading empathy, compassion and respect.  As quoted from the Disney “Incredibles 2” movie “It’s time to make some wrong things right, help us bring Supers back into the sunlight!”

Get your community involved and prior to KY Safe Schools Week promote it in your area; in the newspaper, on the radio, on your school website, there is no limit! Poster/Flyer How to Take the Pledge Flyer Press Release (Sample) PSAs for Radio Spots Proclamation have city or county officials sign the Safe Schools Week Proclamation

Use the Daily Announcements, Dress-Up and Activities Pages to get the students involved. Elementary Daily School Announcements Middle/High Daily School Announcements Daily Attire Activities Lessons and Web Ideas Daily Food Ideas "Incredible" Creative Ideas Coloring Sheet Activity

Also, promotionals to encourage students are provided such as stickers/ badges, bookmarks, tokens, etc.. Badges or Stickers Bookmarks Be Incredible Tokens Be Incredible Token Certificate Theme Song (“Incredibles 2”) 

Logos and signs to use in promotions and photo ops. Large "Be Incredible" Sign Large Logo Sign Large Logo-Pledge Sign Large Pledge Sign Large Poster

Please send pictures of your school or community involved in anti-bullying activities and Ky Safe Schools Week Campaign activities to ask@kycss.org We will add them to the photo highlights and tweet them out. (Thanks for sharing!)

The rest of the Ky Safe Schools Webpage is divided into three major sections, with subsections. First Educators, click on the educators icon and go directly to the educator section, or click on Students and Parents or Community. You get the drill. The Educators section is divided into four subsections see above….

Resources for Educators Under the Educators section there are teacher resources. The first resource has many highlighted resources for the week. Other links are full of resources and lessons for your classrooms and individual students to use. TRTs digital literacy to combat cyberbullying can be found at commonsensemedia.org and so much more.

Hey Counselors and Media Specialists… Book lists and discussion guides are also available for our counselors and media specialist. Does your school want to focus on a framework that is evidence-based to prevent and reduce bullying behavior “Olweus” contacts at KDE are listed above.

Handouts for All Audiences Next section is Handouts and this is self explanatory. KCSS has handouts for all stakeholders, students, teachers, parents and community. Many of our schools will put a sticker on these handouts and place them around the community: on grocery bulletin boards, in the sheriffs office, in doctors waiting rooms… Educating our students and staff is great but the community as a whole needs to come together and work on the issue of bullying prevention and this is one way to get the word out.

Videos and Powerpoints The next section on this page includes powerpoints and videos. There are just a few for you to use if they fit your purpose. The last two videos are short “feel good” moments from Values.com. They show students helping other students when exclusion and bullying is taking place. They are great writing prompts or discussion starters. I’ve touched the tip of the iceberg of all the resources located on this page and it links to other pages like cyberbullying, etc…

Administrators Resources

The rest of the Ky Safe Schools Webpage is divided into three major sections, with subsections. Next, you can click on Students and Parents icon and go directly to that section. The

Student Resources

Parent Resources

Educators, Students/Parents and Community… Here is a Handout explaining… How to take the online…

Link to “Incredibles 2” Theme Song Kentucky Safe Schools Week 2018 Theme Song   “Incredibles 2” Theme Song Ideas: Create your own lyrics as a class project  or Use this theme song during presentations Use behind morning announcements Link to “Incredibles 2” Theme Song

Join others across the Commonwealth during this awareness campaign… Please join our Kentucky Safe Schools Week Campaign and BE INCREDIBLE! in your school and community. Join others across the Commonwealth during this awareness campaign… Take the pledge Hold assemblies Embed lessons about bully prevention and cyber safety Involve your community with signing of proclamations, radio, TV and news updates about your local campaigns We need our students to ban together with school staff and the community to create a “family-like” culture at school.