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- Jenna Guzewicz
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- Dana Williams
Working Definition
School safety is the act of the school community working together to keep students out of harm's way while in school or when participating in school functions by monitoring behavior (student and others), persons and items in and out of the facility, and by maintaining an environment free of bullying, violence, and disease.
Overview
Maintaining a safe school requires the cooperation of parents, students, and teachers. It is a multifaceted issue encompassing a decrease of violent attacks at schools, careful monitoring of hired staff, and building maintenance for the medical well being of the children. It is important that districts have plans to implement when a challenge arises and the proper professional training so staff can successfully carry out the plans. We hope these resources help parents and school professionals work towards maintaining a safe school environment.
Internet Sources
International Center for Educational Statistics
This is a great site with national statistics regarding the different aspects of the keeping students safe at school.
A good resource for parents and educators that gives up to date information about how keeping schools safe.
Parent's Guide to School Safety
This is a great resource for parents to visit to get ideas about the various ways schools are required to keep students safe and also increase awareness about the enviroment of schools today. This may help generate questions when starting a new school year.
The Aftermath of a School Crisis
This article highlights features from a recent conference for school prinicipals on how to best help the school community recover after expereincing a traumatic event.
This site gives a general overview of resoures including upcoming conferences, recent news articles, and networking opportunities available nationwide to help ensure safe schools.
This site is an incredible resource. It provides materials about school safety, solutions for improving school safety, and news about worldwide school safety measures.
This site is sponsored by the National Education Association (NEA) and lists the steps the NEA is taking to ensure that schools become more safe in the future.
Books
Ready Freddy: Don’t Sit on My Lunch; Ready Freddy Series, by Abby Klein, illustrated by John Mckinley (Blue Sky Press, 2005)- This book talks about bullying and could be a nice opening to a discussion about student behavior.
Trump, Kenneth S. (1998) Practical school security: Basic guidelines for safe and secure schools. Thousand Oaks, California: Corwin Press. -This book provides guidelines for crisis preparedness and steps to improving school security, beginning with a security assessment, ending with school police departments.
Mattern, Joanne. (2007) Staying safe at school (Safety first). Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Gareth Stevens Audio. -This book would be a great resource for 6-8 year olds: a sort of handbook for prevention for and maintainance of their own safety.
Raatma, L. (2003) School safety. The child's world inc. -This book is a good resource for children ages 12 and up on how to be safe during the many activities during the school day.
Multimedia Sources
Safe School Planning. This is a video made for teaching professionals and outlines the process of creating a "safe" school.
Safety Tips for Students. This is a resource for students (K-2) to help them understand safety measures they can practice going to school and while they are at school. (Click on the segements view segments 2-6)
School Safety 101 This video shows how safe students really feel at a high school. Students also offer some suggestions for making their school safer.
School Safety for Young Children This video is great for small children such as kindegartners. It was created for small children and shows basic school safety such as the stop, drop, and roll technique and safety tips for crossing the street.
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