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Direct linkNicholas L. Scheel; Jose M. Castillo; John M. Ferron; Donald Kincaid; Nathaniel P. von der Embse – Contemporary School Psychology, 2025
The ongoing concern among the public about the safety of school-aged students in the United States has driven researchers to identify effective preventative practices to enhance school safety. Although past research has identified and evaluated specific preventative initiatives, the breadth of literature evaluating multitiered systems of supports…
Descriptors: School Safety, Student Attitudes, Age Differences, Racial Differences
Christopher Jeremy Colson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore the perceptions of school principals regarding creating a safety plan that addresses school safety in K-12 schools in Illinois. The conceptual model that guided this study was the M-PHAT model from the National Association of School Psychologists Framework for Safe and Successful…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools, Principals, School Safety
Christopher Gentilezza – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this quantitative, non-experimental, causal-comparative study with a self-reported survey design was to investigate how the leadership styles of secondary-school leaders influence school culture. Participants involved secondary-school administrators across four intermediate units in Eastern Pennsylvania: LIU 18, NEIU 19, CIU 20, and…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Secondary Schools, Administrator Role, School Culture
Espelage, 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
Danielle L. DeFauw – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2025
Personally and professionally, the author shares experiences with school safety and how the English Language Arts (ELA) classroom may utilize middle grade novels to address gun violence with adolescents. Highlighting five middle grade novels that address school shootings--Katherine Erskine's (2011) "Mockingbird," Emily Barth Isler's…
Descriptors: School Violence, Weapons, Middle School Students, Novels
Download full textBradshaw, Catherine P.; Debnam, Katrina J.; Kush, Joseph; Lindstrom Johnson, Sarah – Grantee Submission, 2022
This study aimed to identify potential gaps related to crisis preparedness at 98 public secondary schools, as such crises may occur following a substantiated eminent threat of school violence. Crisis preparedness data collected by trained external assessors captured knowledge of the procedure for responding in a safety-related crisis and process…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Crisis Management, School Safety, School Violence
Clint Whitten – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2025
Given recent anti-Queer legislation across the United States and the 16-year gap since "Gray's Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America," this literature review describes the intersections of Queerness and rurality in K-12 educational spaces. Hallinger's process for review provides a framework to analyze…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Rural Schools, Intersectionality, Rural Population
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
Camilla Forsberg; Eva Hammar Chiriac; Robert Thornberg – Educational Studies, 2025
School climate is crucial for understanding everyday school life. For pupils, breaktime seems to be associated with how they feel about their school climate. To better understand school climate and what social processes pupils address, this study explores pupils' perspectives on school climate with attention on how they perceive their breaktimes.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Environment, Elementary School Students, Secondary 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
Ina R. Knight – English in Texas, 2024
Protecting children and investing in their education and wellbeing can often feel like a battle. The seat that the author now holds at the proverbial education table is crucial in not only developing a well-rounded and well-equipped student body, but it is also in seeing herself as a role model to future leaders--both women and future leaders of…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Secondary Education, Females, Minority Groups
Ephraim Matala Kgwete – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2024
Principals are faced with some frustrating situations from time to time in their line of duty in which they must make a variety of decisions affecting their students. This study argues that principals need to understand how to apply professional discretion in their practice and be accountable for their judgements and decisions to avoid the notion…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Principals, Administrator Attitudes
