Support for Administrators
In the digital world we live in, classrooms are no longer contained by four walls. Students’ online behavior at school affects behavior at home and behavior outside of school influences the school environment. For example, bullying may not just take place on school grounds, but online and outside of school.
Often, parents seek help from the school to deal with issues such as cyberbullying. Parent education is an important part of digital citizenship. For many parents, the digital world their students interact in is very foreign. Even for parents who are comfortable in a digital environment need information to help them understand what their children are doing online, how to manage their children’s digital media, and how manage quality programs and avoid risky behavior and sites.
Administrators, teachers, and staff need strategies and support outside the regular curriculum for supporting parents and dealing with these issues as they affect the school environment.
Here you will find support documents and multi-grade level resources relating to the district acceptable use policies, cyber-bullying, and digital citizenship.
Advice Videos for Parents — Educational and advice videos about cyberbullying, digital footprints, plagiarism, etc. designed for parents. A variety of videos are available for all grade levels.
BrainPop Digital Citizenship — The Digital Citizenship section offers animated, curricular content that engages students, and supports educators.
Common Sense Media Cyberbullying Toolkit — Provides resources for all levels: elementary, middle, and high school. Resources for administrators, students, and parents.
Common Sense Media Cyberbullying Toolkit — Provides resources for all levels: elementary, middle, and high school. Resources for administrators, students, and parents.
Common Sense Media CyberBullying Toolkit — Provides resources for all levels, elementary, middle, and high school. Resources for administrators, students, and parents.
Common Sense Media Family Tip Sheets — Family Tip Sheets made available free of charge to distribute on topics such as cyber-bullying, email, digital footprints, and digital safety. Tip sheets are sorted into K-5, 6-8, and 9-12 categories.
Common Sense Media Parent Outreach Kit — Collection of flyers, surveys, presentations, etc. to increase parent awareness of the current digital landscape and how students engage in it.
Digital ID — A great collection of resources, tools, and examples of student work on Digital Citizenship.
Educate Families: Media and Technology Program — Resources to use for parent education events, after-school workshops, parent-teacher conferences, or school newsletters. You can also send them home after students participate lessons from the Digital Citizenship Curriculum
Family Media Agreements — Provide parents a Family Media Agreement that helps start set expectations with their children for safe and responsible use. Available for elementary, middle, and high school levels in both English and Spanish.
iKeepSafe.org — Resources for educators, parents, and students at all levels. Some require login. Vision: to see generations of the world’s children grow up safely using technology and the internet.
NetzSmartz (6-12) — NetSmartz Workshop is an interactive, educational program from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). The site provides age-appropriate resources to help teach children how to be safer on- and offline. Designed mainly for the middle and high school levels.
What is Digital Citizenship? — This five-minute video explains the importance of digital citizenship, why adults need to be informed and introduces off-line strategies for teaching children.