PARENT/GUARDIAN RESOURCES & INFORMATION

What is GoGuardian?

To help keep your child safer and more scholarly online, Advance R-IV adopted an online service provided by GoGuardian. We have chosen this to help protect students against harmful inappropriate online material, help our students stay more focused when learning online, assess their progress towards class assignments, and facilitating communication between teacher and student during class time. Advance R-IV enables teachers to use GoGuardian with students in their classes during school hours, or as needs arise for after school tutoring, etc. We ask that students use their school-managed Google accounts for educational purposes within the boundaries and guidelines of our Technology Policy. Should you have any further questions regarding GoGuardian, please contact your building office.

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In order to promote a safe learning environment for all students, the Advance R-IV prohibits all forms of bullying. The district also prohibits reprisal or retaliation against any person who reports an act of bullying among or against students.

To view the policy in its entirety, CLICK HERE

What Is Bullying?

Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Both kids who are bullied and who bully others may have serious, lasting problems. In order to be considered bullying, the behavior must be aggressive and include:

  • An Imbalance of Power: Kids who bully use their power—such as physical strength, access to embarrassing information, or popularity—to control or harm others. Power imbalances can change over time and in different situations, even if they involve the same people.

  • Repetition: Bullying behaviors happen more than once or have the potential to happen more than once.

Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose.

For more info on bullying, visit https://www.stopbullying.gov/.

Earthquake Information:

The highest earthquake risk in the United States outside the West Coast is in the New  Madrid Seismic Zone, centered in southeast Missouri’s Bootheel. Damaging  earthquakes are not as frequent as in California, but when they do occur, the destruction  covers more than 20 times the area due to the nature of geologic materials in the region.  A major earthquake could mean catastrophic damage in the St. Louis and southeast  regions of the state, and significant damage throughout Missouri. 

The New Madrid Seismic Zone averages more than 200 earthquakes per year.  Most can’t be felt, but a few can cause measurable damage.  

Experts say there’s a 25 to 40 percent chance for a major earthquake in a fifty year  period. The result could be major damage from St. Louis to Memphis. The last major  earthquake in the New Madrid Seismic Zone was centered in southeast Missouri, near the  town of Charleston, in 1895, so we’re overdue for a major earthquake. 

The Great New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-12 were the largest in U.S. history west  of the Rocky Mountains. The massive quakes destroyed homes, created lakes and briefly  caused the Mississippi River to run backward. Shaking was felt as far away as the east  coast! 

To help your family survive an earthquake, know what to do  BEFORE, DURING, and AFTER a major quake strikes. 

BEFORE: 

✔ Put together an emergency kit – flashlight, first aid kit, radio, drinking  water, blankets 

✔ Develop a family communication plan – identify a relative living at least 100  miles away; everyone can call to “check in” to tell family you’re safe ✔ Make sure all heavy or breakable items are on lower shelves ✔ Know how to turn off utilities 

DURING:

✔ DROP to the ground. 

✔ COVER your head with your hands and arms. Crawl under a sturdy table or  desk if there’s one nearby. 

✔ HOLD ON until the shaking stops.  

✔ If you’re driving, pull off the road, away from buildings and utility poles,  and stay in your car. 

✔ If you’re outside, drop to the ground, away from large objects, and cover  your face and head with your arms.  

AFTER: 

✔ Find your family; check for injuries 

✔ If necessary, call 911 for help 

✔ If you smell gas or hear a hissing sound, go outside – shut off gas valve ✔ Be careful to avoid live power lines and broken glass 

✔ Listen to news for latest emergency information 

✔ Be ready for aftershocks!

Prepared By: Missouri State Emergency Management Agency PO Box 116, Jefferson City, Missouri 65102 Phone: 573/526-9100 Fax: 573/634-7966 E-mail: mosema@sema.dps.mo.gov 

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