SCHOOL PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS

OTBSS, in consultation with school educators and subject experts is continuously developing enhanced current presentations and interactive workshops with topics that focus on today’s school’s climate and environment that influence students, staff, schools, school boards and parents of students at the elementary and secondary school levels.

OTBSS have also been involved at a more complex level delivering workshop-presentations to post-secondary institutions.

Understanding that each individual educational facilities have their own unique challenges that impact their daily operations, OTBSS meets with the school administrator prior to a presentation to cover additional topics that addresses their specific concerns with positive outcomes to be delivered during the presentations.

The presentations are designed to personalize the specific demands of the participants by captivating them through multifaceted means to include but not limited to open discussions, role-playing initiatives, exercises, problem solving scenarios, and group presentations.

The presentation format conforms with the mandates, directives and requirements of the Ontario Education Act, the Safe Schools’ initiatives and the individual school boards mission, policies, procedures, and code of conduct. They support the ‘National Bullying Month’, ‘Bullying Awareness and Prevention week in Ontario’ and Canada’s ‘Pink Shirt Day’, to raise awareness of bullying in schools, workplaces, homes and online.

The presentations - workshops multiple topic options include but are not limited to:

STUDENTS

Artificial Intelligence - Bullying
Bullying and Cyberbullying - Definitions, Effects, and Consequences
Bullying and Cyberbullying - Protection - Resolutions
Consent – Conflict - Personal Space – Defined
Controls – Social Media Apps – Gaming - Smartphones
How to Report Incidents - Parents, Teachers, School Officials
Laws, Education Act Mandates, School Boards Policies, Procedures
Mental Health Awareness – Self-Harm – Suicides – Professional Assistance
Minimizing and Protecting Yourself from Victimization
Social Media – Online Games – Dangers

SCHOOL STAFF

Artificial Intelligence – Bullying Trends
Bullying – Cyberbullying - Effects, Consequences, and Expectations
Common Apps and Online Gaming - Used by Students - Dangers
Consequences of Not Reporting Students’ Incidents
Duties, Roles and Responsibilities – Student Victimization
Laws, Education Act Mandates, School Boards Policies, Procedures
Online Hazardous to students, grooming, luring and sex trafficking
Ontario Human Rights Complaints Affecting Educators
Parents Engagement – De-escalation Methods
Progressive Discipline
Social Media Security and Terminology Vulnerabilities
Students’ Mental Health - Self-harm - Suicides – Statistics – from Bullying
Students’ Victimization Intervention
Society Acceptance – Affecting the School’s Environment
Warning Signs – Student is a Victim

PARENTS

Artificial Intelligence – New Face of Bullying
Bullying – Cyberbullying - Effects and Consequences
Kids Help Phone or Text 988 - Available 24/7
Laws, Legislation, Policies, Directives, Protocols guiding educators
Parent Controls – Apps, Gaming, Smartphones
Parent Controls - Software
School Administrators - Mandates, Responsibilities - Investigations
Students Mental Health – Self-Harm – Suicides from Bullying
Social Media Apps and Online Games – Dangers
Social Media Terminology – Red Flags
Strategies to Protect your Children
Trending Victimization – Sextortion – Protection
Toolkits for Parents – Protection from Grooming, Luring and Sex Trafficking
Warning Signs – Child is a Victim

At the conclusion of the presentations and workshops, OTBSS submits an "Overview Report" that summarizes the content delivered and analyzes potential risks and liabilities identified during the presentation with given recommendations, that may require immediate action, changes, or reviews of present practices to help minimize or eliminate the risks and liabilities to the school boards, schools, staff members and students.

The presentations and workshops allow school boards an opportunity to enhance their leadership role in the Province of Ontario by demonstrating their continuous efforts to combat, minimize, and reduce the risks associated with bullying, cyberbullying, victimization and school violence within their institutes.

OTBSS would commit to be an integral member of your leadership team to enhance school safety and security.

“OTBSS’s goal is to help develop empathetic leaders of tomorrow, one youth at a time.”