Download or read book Implementation Plan for Improvements to School Safety Operations written by Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Role of Technology in Improving K 12 School Safety written by Heather L. Schwartz and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report categorizes school safety technologies, summarizes research on school violence, presents six case studies of innovative technologies, and summarizes experts' views of technologies and safety problems and their rankings of technology needs.
Download or read book Keeping Students Safe Every Day written by Amy Klinger and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is your school prepared to deal with a crisis, whether it’s a hurricane, an earthquake, an explosion at a nearby chemical facility, an active shooter, or one of many other possibilities? Does your school have an up-to-date plan to deal with hazards of all sorts? Do teachers and other staff members know what to do in emergency situations to protect their students and themselves from harm? In this informative and comprehensive guide, school safety experts Amy Klinger and Amanda Klinger offer significant--and sometimes surprising--statistics on school safety, dispel common misunderstandings, and provide preK–12 school leaders with the specific information they need to prepare for and effectively respond to natural disasters, accidents, or violent events. Readers will learn how and why it is important to • Realistically assess threats and vulnerabilities. • Create and implement an emergency operations plan that follows government guidelines and best practices. • Decentralize authority and responsibility for crisis response. • Distinguish between three levels of “lockdown.” • Plan for short- and long-term recovery following an incident. • Make school safety an everyday component of school operations. At a time when schools at every level and in every community face the possibility of a crisis event, Keeping Students Safe Every Day equips leaders with the knowledge they need to give their students, staff members, parents, and the broader community confidence that their school knows what to do and makes safety a top priority.
Download or read book School Safety Management written by Richard L. Glover and published by Civic Research Institute, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Office of School Safety Operations Improvement Project written by New York (N.Y.). Education, Board of. Office of the Deputy Chancellor. Project Management Unit and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Planning Guide for Maintaining School Facilities written by Tom Szuba and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comprehensive Planning for Safe Learning Environments written by Melissa A. Reeves and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides school administrators, school-based mental health professionals, and other educational professionals with the framework and tools needed to establish a comprehensive safe learning environment. The authors identify four necessary phases to achieve this (prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery) and provide numerous examples and tools to help readers create safe environments, while also addressing students’ academic, emotional, and social needs. An emphasis is placed on the importance of the balance between physical and psychological safety within a multi-tiered framework - it is not enough for students to know their school is secure; they must also feel they are safe and can turn to their teachers and school-based mental health professionals with their concerns. Aaccompanying downloadable resources contain several valuable resources, such as forms, handouts, articles, and monitoring tools.
Download or read book A Framework for Developing a Comprehensive Plan for Improving Student Health and School Safety written by Temple University, Urban Education Collaborative and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though elementary and secondary schools remain among the safest places for children, school safety concerns continue to garner considerable attention from school and community stakeholders, as well as policymakers. As affirmed in the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), it is clear that all children need a safe environment in which to learn and achieve. However, the process for ensuring such a school environment is not always as clear, especially given the nature (both quantity and quality) of available data to assess needs, range of problems to be addressed--from building security to improving student behavior--and the multitude of available programs, policies, and materials being pitched to school administrators and community partners. Decision makers increasingly need information to help them identify needs, set goals, determine strategies and select programs, build partnerships, implement new activities, and assess progress. Perhaps even more important, school decision makers need a framework for ensuring that all of these efforts are strategically aligned and that limited resources are effectively allocated to best address the needs of their students, schools, and district/community. In response, this brief is designed as a framework for assessing student health and school safety and determining appropriate courses of action. All too often, districts and schools make policy, program, and practice decisions in response to specific crises, complaints, or funding opportunities. These responses also tend to be relatively discrete strategies, often isolated from each other and from a larger understanding of the district or school context and other improvement efforts. The challenge is to think about improving student health and school safety in a comprehensive and coordinated fashion.
Download or read book Comprehensive Planning for Safe Learning Environments written by Melissa A. Reeves and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2010 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The school violence events that occurred in the 2006-2007 school year and the March 2007 shooting tragedy in Germany have renewed concerns about schools all across the country. The need, therefore, for a book on planning and implementing school safety measures would seem to be vital at this point in time. Reeves, Kanan, and Plog have created just such a guide, providing important information that can help prevent incidents of school violence for all educators involved in crisis prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery. The emphasis the authors place on the connection between physical safety efforts and psychological safety efforts make this work even more valuable.
Download or read book Safe Schools written by Carol Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This workbook presents a seven-step planning process for safe and effective schools. Though specifically directed to schools in California, most of the components of the plan will pertain to schools everywhere. The workbook contains requirements of the California Education Code; many work sheets, sample forms, summary sheets, checklists, rubrics, matrices, and definitions; and an action plan for each of the seven steps. The seven steps in the planning process are as follows: (1) Identify your safe-school planning committee members; (2) create a vision of your school as a place where students are safe to learn, and base that vision on youth development; (3) gather and analyze data; (4) identify strengths and areas of desired change, and set major annual goals for each of the two safe-school components; (5) select and implement strategies; (6) communicate the safety plan to the public, hold public meetings for input, and keep the updated plan available for public inspection; and (7) evaluate your progress, revise the plan annually, and include the plan in your school accountability report card. (WFA).
Download or read book Creating Safe Schools written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proactive School Security and Emergency Preparedness Planning written by Kenneth S. Trump and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Security expert Kenneth S. Trump outlines school security issues and provides nuts-and-bolts strategies for preventing violence and preparing for crises. Includes author's companion website.
Download or read book Implementing Effective School wide Student Discipline and Behavior Management Systems written by Dr. Howie Knoff and published by Project ACHIEVE Press. This book was released on 2009-02-02 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today%u2019s school-wide Positive Behavioral Support approaches are more specific, integrated, effective, and comprehensive than ever before. This Electronic Book (E-Book) describes the components and specific elements of Project ACHIEVE%u2019s evidence-based Positive Behavioral Self-Management System (PBSS) that (a) addresses the prevention, intervention, and intensive needs of challenging students, and (b) is fully consistent with NCLB and IDEA. Project ACHIEVE is a national award winning school improvement program that has been designated as an evidence-based through two federal agencies%u2014for example, the Department of Health & Human Service%u2019s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). This E-Book first describes Project ACHIEVE%u2019s PBSS at the primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention levels, focusing on the following areas: (a) teaching children and adolescents functional self-management skills, using the Stop & Think Social Skills Program, such that they master and demonstrate interpersonal, problem-solving, and conflict resolution skills as well as independent learning and academic engagement skills; (b) teaching teachers the instructional self-management skills that they need to run positive, effective classrooms that consistently hold students accountable for their behavior, and that result in student learning and behavioral growth; and (c) teaching school staff organizational self-management skills so that they develop the systemic approaches needed for identifying resources and building capacity to independently sustain successful building-wide services for the prevention, strategic intervention, and intensive support needs of all students. The six critical components that make up the PBSS then are presented in detail: (a) the Stop & Think Social Skills Program; (b) the development of grade-level and building-wide accountability systems; (c) how to increase staff and student consistency; (d) the analysis of %u201Cspecial situations%u201D-- behavioral situations that occur in the common areas of a school and/or that involve peer-mediated teasing, taunting, bullying, harassment, and physical aggression; (e) crisis prevention, intervention, and response; and (f) the importance of home and community outreach. Finally, the E-Book focuses specifically %u201CSpecial Situations%u201D and %u201CSpecial Situation Analyses.%u201D There are two types of %u201CSpecial Situations%u201D%u2014Setting-specific and Student- or Peer-specific. The Setting-specific Special Situations involve the common or %u201Cpublic%u201D areas of a school: the hallways, bathrooms, cafeteria, playground, media center/library, buses, and other school gathering places. The Student- or Peer-specific Special Situations involve the continuum from teasing to taunting to bullying to harassment to physical aggression or fighting. Clearly, these %u201Csetting%u201D and %u201Cstudent%u201D situations are critical to a PBSS as they can (positively) contribute to a school%u2019s positive climate, or they can (negatively) interfere with the classroom climate, making it more difficult for students to be completely engaged and focused on academic achievement. In order to develop strategic interventions for these negative special situations, this E-Book describes how to conduct a %u201CSpecial Situations Analysis%u201D%u2014a systematic data-based problem-solving process that links Problem Identification to Functional Assessment/Problem Analysis to Intervention and to Formative and Summative Evaluations. The Functional Assessment/Problem Analysis domains discussed will include: (a) Student Characteristics, Issues, and Factors; (b) Teacher/Staff Characteristics, Issues, and Factors; (c) Environmental Characteristics, Issues, and Factors-- Physical Plant and Logistics; (d) Incentives and Consequences; and (e) Resources. For Student-specific Special Situations, the Peer Group is added to the analysis. In the end, this E-Book describes a functional, effective, and comprehensive school-wide system that maximizes students%u2019 academic achievement, creates safe school environments and positive school climates, increases and sustains effective classroom instruction and parent involvement, and collects data to demonstrate student and building outcomes. This E-Book describes the necessary components of a PBSS, and provides an in-depth and practical, step-by-step approach to the Special Situation Analysis, demonstrating its explicit link with the strategic interventions that help schools to decrease or eliminate these issues%u2014thus, increasing their positive and productive school climates and classroom settings.
Download or read book Safe and Healthy Schools written by Jeffrey R. Sprague and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, this authoritative resource provides a complete toolkit for designing and implementing an evidence-based school safety plan. Foremost experts guide practitioners to understand and prevent violence, bullying, and peer harassment in grades K–12. Best practices are reviewed for creating a positive school climate and establishing effective security and crisis response procedures. The authors describe ways to identify and support behaviorally at-risk students across multiple tiers of intervention, beginning with universal screening. In a convenient large-size format, the book includes reproducible planning tools. Purchasers get access to a webpage where they can download and print the reproducible materials. New to This Edition *Reflects over 15 years of research advances, new initiatives, and the growth of universal prevention models. *Grounded in current positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS) practices; also incorporates restorative discipline, social–emotional learning, and trauma-informed practices. *State-of-the-art behavioral screening and threat assessment methods are integrated throughout. *Discussions of timely topics, including cyberbullying, the role and limitations of policing in schools, and racial/ethnic disparities in discipline. This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by Sandra M. Chafouleas.
Download or read book Knowledge and Implementation of a School Safety Plan in Catholic Elementary Schools written by Melissa Jo W. Tradewell and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School violence is an ongoing issue as is the training and construction of an adequate school safety plan in schools. The following study was conducted to investigate how knowledgeable and what understanding Catholic elementary school administrators, teachers, and staff members have concerning the school safety plans. Volunteer participants, 6 administrators and 118 teachers and staff members were asked several survey questions to gauge their understanding and knowledge of the schools' safety plan. In addition, volunteer participants, 2 administrators and 4 teachers and staff members, participated in phone interviews and were asked more specific questions concerning their perceptions and knowledge of the school safety plans. The survey data was collected using an online platform and phone interviews were conducted by the researcher. The study data showed that the administrators, teachers, and staff members perceived they have a high knowledge of fire drill procedures and a strong understanding of fire drill procedures. The data also show the administrators, teachers, and staff members perceived a less than high knowledge of lockdown procedures, Shelter in Place procedures, evacuation procedures, and school safety plans. In addition, the study showed that there is a lack of these drills, with the exception of the fire drills, throughout the schools. Overall, the Catholic elementary schools that were polled should evaluate each school individually and propose a plan to make sure that all the administrators, teachers, and staff members are performing drills and have both an understanding and knowledge of the procedures to ensure everyone's safety.
Download or read book Developing the Organizational Culture of the Central Office written by Sally J. Zepeda and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central office resources are one of the largest assets in making meaningful change in schools, and this important book guides aspiring district leaders to take up the challenge to transform their schools, while at the same time balancing their core responsibilities. This book helps readers rethink the impact of central office on system and school initiatives, understand and apply transformational thinking, and change strategies at the central office to develop new instructional designs, create new opportunities to prioritize human and fiscal resources, and establish new leadership approaches founded on systems review and change. Full of exemplars from the field, questions for discussion, and suggested readings, this valuable textbook is for use in educational leadership preparation programs.
Download or read book Proactive School Security and Emergency Preparedness Planning written by Kenneth S. Trump and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An all-in-one resource for keeping students safe Author Kenneth S. Trump has dedicated his career to making schools safer, and his book delivers school security solutions in a concise and straightforward manner. He provides an overview of school security and nuts-and-bolts strategies for preventing violence and preparing for crises. Hot topics covered include: Bullying, cyberbullying, and harassment After-school, transportation, and athletic event security Managing media and parent communications on safety and crises Practical, cost-effective security and preparedness within tight budgets The author's companion website keeps readers current with breaking news and interactive dialogue.
