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BREADCRUMB

Ask your student about Our Knight Roundtable Conversations

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Once a month we hold a Knight’s Roundtable discussion in every class. These conversations always concern building a better learning community for our students or building specific skills for their well-being.

We know that students thrive as individuals and learn more and faster when they feel physically and emotionally safe at school.  

Deep learning and skill building requires exposing your ideas to scrutiny and letting others see where you might be less than perfect. A daunting risk for most teens to take.

Friday's discussion concerned harassment, intimidation, and bullying (HIBA)—including:

  • the harm to individuals,
  • the damage that goes beyond the specific target of the behavior to its impact on our learning community,
  • how to recognize it, and
  • what to do about it.

Your student does NOT need to be the target of these prohibited behaviors for the actions to damage our safe learning environment. 

PLEASE, take a few moments to ask your student about Friday's discussion and their experiences at Newport. 

If you or your student experience or witness any behavior that does not belong in our community, you or your student can immediately and privately report what you know to any staff at school.

You can find an extra assurance of privacy by reporting to the Assistant Principal for your student (see list below). With your information, we can discreetly make observations or our own and take actions to teach students about the harm they inflict and help them to change behaviors. 

Our School Board Policy 3207P defines the behaviors and details the complaint process, prevention, staff intervention, student rights, and more. Corrective measures that involve student discipline will be implemented according to district policy 3241.

Without the help of you and your student, we cannot catch every incident or promptly identify every student who needs our help to change how they interact.

If you see something, tell someone. We want every student to feel safe, welcome, and valued at Newport.