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Direct linkEspelage, Dorothy L.; Valido, Alberto; Robinson, Luz E.; Ingram, Katherine M.; El Sheikh, America; Woolweaver, Ashley M.; Koritz, Laura; Vincent, Claudia G.; Marquez, Brion; Walker, Hill M.; Svanks, Rita; Marmolejos, Roslyn Reynoso; Medina, Courtney; Meltsner, Zeke; Yalamanchi, Kovida; Pennefather, Jordan – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2022
Creating effective school-wide safety mechanisms depends on understanding students' previous experiences of reporting, however, students may also be apprehensive to report if it is considered "snitching." Focus groups were conducted in the 2015-2016, 2016-2017 school years across four U.S. high schools (N = 40). A phenomenological…
Descriptors: Disclosure, Barriers, Affordances, High School Students
Sharyn J. Potter; Elizabeth A. Moschella-Smith; Michelle Lynch – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2024
The hostile learning environment and academic disruptions that result from high school violence underscore the need for prevention education. Technology can facilitate the dissemination of educational content, prevention tools, and resources to students. We describe the three-phase iterative process that engaged high school students,…
Descriptors: High School Students, Violence, School Safety, Prevention
Jan Baker – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative study explored essential characteristics attributed to highly effective School Resource Officers (SROs) as perceived by experienced Indiana high school principals. Through semi-structured interviews with five high school principals from Indiana, the study sought to identify key responsibilities, outcomes, proactive activities, and…
Descriptors: Police, Police School Relationship, High Schools, Principals
Amanda B. Nickerson; Jaclyn Schildkraut – School Psychology Review, 2024
Widespread concern exists that participating in lockdown and active shooter drills, practices that although discussed synonymously are different, may be similarly traumatizing for students. This study examined state anxiety levels--anxiety-present (i.e., anxiety) and anxiety-absent (i.e., well-being)--among students in one rural high school, as…
Descriptors: High School Students, Emergency Programs, School Safety, Student Attitudes
Francis L. Huang; Bixi Zhang; Wendy M. Reinke; Keith C. Herman; James Sebastian – School Psychology Review, 2024
Although several studies have focused on why school climate is important, the timing of the collection of climate measures should be considered. This is of particular interest to schools that gauge school improvement efforts within a school year and are interested in how climate changes from the beginning to the end of the academic year. We show…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Differences, Measurement, Middle School Students
Abiar Nattah – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Schools in the United States need to be prepared for a possible school shooting. However, the types of planning and security measures differ across states and there is not a national policy center or central authority that standardize the quality and feasibility of the safety and security plans. Little research exists on teachers' perceptions of…
Descriptors: High Schools, Urban Schools, School Safety, Weapons
Zacharia, Michal Goldberg; Yablon, Yaacov B. – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2022
One of the negative consequences of bullying in schools is its adverse effect on students' sense of safety. Previous studies yielded mixed results and a nonlinear relationship between bullying and students' sense of safety and pointed to the need for revealing possible mediating and moderating factors in order to better understand this…
Descriptors: Bullying, Victims, Fear, School Safety
David S. Morris – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2024
There is a longstanding stereotype that segregated high schools serving a large majority of minority students are unsafe. But it is unclear if this stereotype has any merit. I use a QuantCrit theoretical framework along with data from the nationally representative Education Longitudinal Study and multilevel logistic regression models to explore…
Descriptors: High Schools, School Segregation, Racial Segregation, African American Students
Bryan D. Long – ProQuest LLC, 2023
School shootings, a tragic occurrence throughout history, have garnered heightened attention in recent decades, largely due to widespread media coverage and the rise of social media platforms. Recent school shootings have created an increased need for school safety and security. Schools have added cameras, metal detectors, electronic door locks,…
Descriptors: School Safety, School Security, High School Students, Anxiety
Samuel Shafer – ProQuest LLC, 2023
School safety is an ever-present issue in the modern education system. Incidents like Sandy Hook, Parkland, and Columbine have forever changed the way school and police officials develop school safety programs. A primary component of many school safety programs is the utilization of school resource officers at various levels throughout the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Police, Suburban Schools, Public Schools
Download full textFrancis L. Huang; Bixi Zhang; Wendy M. Reinke; Keith C. Herman; James Sebastian – Grantee Submission, 2023
Although several studies have focused on why school climate is important, the timing of the collection of climate measures should be considered. This is of particular interest to schools that gauge school improvement efforts within a school year and are interested in how climate changes from the beginning to the end of the academic year. We show…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Differences, Measurement, Middle School Students
Anthony L. Enterante III – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research examines the reasons why parent(s)/guardian(s) have chosen to enroll their child in a Catholic high school in the New Orleans area. Currently enrollment in Catholic high schools in the area is down post-Hurricane Katrina. This research is a qualitative study utilizing Grounded Theory methodology. An anonymous survey was sent to…
Descriptors: Enrollment Influences, Enrollment, Parent Attitudes, Catholic Schools
Carly Berwick; Kayla Luga; Emily Zhang – Educational Forum, 2024
In this co/autoethnographic account of a school-based cyber-bullying incident, the authors discuss the challenges of current anti-bullying approaches in schools. In the incident, male-identifying students were alleged to have engaged in online gender-based abuse of female-identifying students. The authors identify three key themes toward…
Descriptors: High School Students, Computer Mediated Communication, Bullying, Sexual Harassment
Whitlock, Melvin D. – Online Submission, 2023
A recent study conducted by the American Psychological Association (APA) on school violence observed an emerging trend of in-school violence committed by students on school faculty and staff (McMahon et al., 2022). As a result, educators have increasingly factored student-related violence on adult stakeholders in their decisions regarding teacher…
Descriptors: School Safety, School Violence, Faculty Mobility, Decision Making
Rozela McCoy – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS) is a schoolwide approach to promote positive school safety in which student academic success can occur. However, at least one third of students in United States schools are suspended once in their K12 school career for violating a school's code of conduct. School suspensions have been linked to…
Descriptors: Nonprofessional Personnel, Employee Attitudes, Positive Behavior Supports, Urban Schools
