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employees should receive additional training seclusion available to the staff of the Ohio Department of
so that an adequate number of personnel in
each building are trained in crisis management
and de-escalation techniques, including the
use of restraint and seclusion. District
employees who receive such additional
training must keep their training current in
accordance with the requirements of the
provider of the training.
C. The Superintendent shall develop a plan to
provide training to school personnel, as
defined in this Policy, so that Positive Behavior Board Policy: 5517.01
Intervention and Supports are implemented on
a District-wide basis.
The District shall maintain written or electronic
documentation on training provided and lists of participants
in each training.
Only individuals trained in accordance with this Policy in the
appropriate use of restraint and seclusion may use those
techniques.
MONITORING AND COMPLAINT PROCEDURES
The Superintendent shall develop a monitoring procedure to
ensure that this Policy is appropriately implemented.
Any parent of a child enrolled in school in the District may
submit a written complaint to the Superintendent regarding
an incident of restraint or seclusion. The Superintendent
shall investigate each written complaint and respond in
writing to the parent's complaint within thirty (30) days of
receipt of the complaint.
REQUIRED DATA AND REPORTING
Each use of restraint or seclusion shall be:
A. documented in writing;
B. reported to the building administration
immediately;
C. reported to the parent immediately; and
D. documented in a written report.
A copy of the written report shall be made available to the
student’s parent or guardian within twenty-four (24) hours of
the use of restraint or seclusion. A copy of the written report
shall also be maintained in the student's file.
All written documentation of the use of restraint or seclusion
are educational records pursuant to the Family Educational
Right to Privacy Act ("FERPA"), and district personnel are
prohibited from releasing any personally identifiable
information to anyone other than the parent, in accordance
with FERPA's requirements.
The Superintendent shall develop a process for the
collection of data regarding the use of restraint and
seclusion.
The Superintendent shall report information concerning the
use of restraint and seclusion annually to the Ohio
Department of Education as requested by that agency, and
shall make the District's records concerning restraint and
Education upon request.
* Adapted from the Ohio Department of Education's Policy
on Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports, and
Restraint and Seclusion, adopted January 15, 2013.
Adopted 8/26/13
© Neola 2013
BULLYING AND OTHER FORMS OF
AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR
The Board of Educations is committed to providing a safe,
positive, productive, and nurturing educational environment
for all of its students. The Board encourages the promotion
of positive interpersonal relations between members of the
school community.
Harassment, intimidation, or bullying toward a student,
whether by other students, staff, or third parties is strictly
prohibited and will not be tolerated. This prohibition includes
aggressive behavior, physical, verbal, and psychological
abuse, and violence within a dating relationship. The Board
will not tolerate any gestures, comments, threats, or actions
which cause or threaten to cause bodily harm or personal
degradation. This policy applied to all activities in the
District, including activities on school property, on a school
bus, or while enroute to or from school, and those occurring
off school property if the student or employee is at any
school-sponsored, school-approved or school-related activity
or function, such as field trips or athletic events where
students are under the school’s control, in a school vehicle,
or where and employee is engaged in school business.
This policy has been developed in consultation with parents,
District employees, volunteers, students, and community
members as prescribed in R.C. 3313.666 and the State
Board of Education's Model Policy.
Harassment, intimidation, or bullying means:
A. any intentional written, verbal, electronic, or
physical act that a student or group of students
exhibits toward another particular student(s) more
than once and the behavior both causes mental or
physical harm to the other student(s) and is
sufficiently severe, persistent, or pervasive that it
creates an intimidating, threatening, or abusive
educational environment for the other student(s):or
B. Violence with a dating relationship.
“Electronic act” means an act committed through the use of
a cellular telephone, computer, pager, personal
communication device, or other electronic communication
device.
Aggressive behavior is defined as inappropriate conduct that
is repeated enough, or serious enough, to negatively impact
a student's educational, physical, or emotional well-being.
This type of behavior is a form of intimidation and
harassment, although it need not be based on any of the
legally protected characteristics, such as sex, race, color,
national origin, marital status, or disability. It would include,
but not be limited to, such behaviors as stalking,
bullying/cyberbullying, intimidating, menacing, coercion,
name-calling, taunting, making threats, and hazing.
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