Collings Lakes School Counseling
Hello parents!
I am Mrs. Villecco, the School Social Worker at Collings Lakes Elementary School. I provide counseling services on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays in the form of individual and group counseling, crisis intervention, and I work with all students to prevent harassment, intimidation, and bullying.
We, at Collings Lakes Elementary School, believe that it is important for everyone to work together to send a unified message against bullying. There is an established school culture of acceptance, tolerance and respect in our school community. The best way to address bullying to is stop it before it starts.
Normal Conflict
- Mutually competitive or opposing actions or engagements
- Includes disagreements, arguments and fights
- A normal part of growing up
Bullying
- Is one sided
- One or more students are victims of one more more person’s aggression, as it applies to HIB
- The intent is to physically or emotionally hurt someone
Explanation above from NJDOE training materials
Non-Conflict
- Everyone is having fun
- No one is getting hurt
- Everyone is participating equally
Conflict
- One person or no one is having fun
- There is a possible solution to the disagreement
- Equal balance of power
Mean Moment
- Someone is being hurt
- Reaction to a strong feeling or emotion
- An isolated event
Bullying
- Attacked physically, socially and/or emotionally
- Unequal balance of power
- Happens more than once over a period of time
- Someone is being hurt on purpose
