The new school year means new students entering your school.
For the benefit of both new and returning students and parents, it’s critical to roll-out BRIM to your students and parents at the start of every school year as well as remind students throughout the year of the various bullying reporting options you’ve made available in person and through BRIM.
9 Steps for Rolling Out BRIM:
- Hold a school-wide assembly introducing the BRIM mobile app and bullying incident reporting form on your school website.
- Make sure the button to the reporting form on your school website is obvious and not hidden in a menu.
- Introduce the online and mobile reporting option to parents during parent council meetings.
- Inform all parents via your school newsletter that the option to report incidents is now available on the school website.
- Have teachers inform students regularly (at least once every couple months) about the option to report incidents on the school website.
- Mention it during your school’s morning and afternoon PA announcements.
- Get students involved in promoting the online reporting option. Have students create their own posters or wallet cards.
- Don’t leave the onus of reporting bullying solely up to the victims. Train students on being an active bystander / upstander that stands up for victimized students by not engaging in the harassment and immediately reporting it either online or in person to school officials.
- Display posters prominently around the school in high traffic locations (cafeteria, hallway, bathrooms, etc) and in classrooms.
