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= Welcome to the Red Clay iSAFE Wiki =

October 10, 2008 President Bush signed the Broadband Data Improvement Act (S.1492) that includes a mandate for those who receive federal e-Rate discounts on their Internet access to educate students about online safety. Since the State of Delaware uses e-Rate funds to maintain the K-12 network and Red Clay uses the K-12 network for Internet access, we need to educate our students about online safety.

The State has purchased access for us to use the i-SAFE curriculum materials to accomplish this task. I-SAFE is a fully articulated K-12 curriculum with lessons on:
 * Acceptable Online Behavior
 * Cyberbullying
 * Social networking

Lessons come with directions for the teacher, student handouts, PowerPoint presentations, and in some cases video clips. Lessons can be taught in any classroom, computer access is not necessary. Lessons are updated yearly to reflect new issues and technology development. The complete curriculum is available online. Designated teachers will be given a username and password for access.

It is imperative that students take the online pre and post survey to measure changes in attitudes and knowledge. Students enter a school ID before taking a survey, so that results can be tracked by building. This also provides the accountability that the District and State need to show that material is being covered.

For the 2010-2011 school year students will be taught the **Acceptable Online Behavior lessons, the Cyber bullying lessons, and the Social Networking lessons** by the following teachers: Would you like more background in the topic of Internet safety? i-SAFE offers an online series of video training that any educator with a username and password can access. For more information click on the i-LEARN picture to the right.
 * Grades 4, 5: Elementary Librarians
 * Grades 6, 7, 8: Career and Technical teachers
 * Grade 9: Health teachers