The nation watched in shock recently as four middle school boys barraged 68-year-old bus monitor Karen Klein with jabs about her weight, attacks on her family, and chuckled as they made violent and graphic threats. Klein remained quiet, taking the abuse and failing to respond to the students. This incident might have gone unnoticed and unreported, had not one of the teenagers posted a 10-minute video of the harassment on YouTube. The Office of Civil Rights requires schools to investigate bullying incidents, and take immediate action to stop harassment and prevent its recurrence. If a school knows or reasonably should know about student harassment and fails to address its effects and take appropriate action, it is opening themselves up to federal investigations and expensive lawsuits. School districts and higher-education institutions must establish comprehensive policies and procedures for identifying, reporting, investigating and responding to incidents of bullying and harassment. Several Midwest schools, including Tulsa Public Schools, are taking proactive action to empower their students, personnel, parents and others to report incidents (anonymously or not). These schools are using innovative risk and incident management and threat assessment tools to encourage students, teachers, staff and others to confidentially and anonymously report bullying or other potentially harmful student behavior. Through these modern bullying-prevention strategies, schools can be more efficient in their response, more collaborative and more accountable.