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Direct linkChristopher 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
Peer reviewedEspelage, 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
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
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
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
Cecilie Danah Price – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to determine how various security measures affect performance in two South Carolina middle schools, one high-performing, and one low-performing. This research study determined educators' attitudes toward safety in one high-performing and low-performing school in the low country area of South Carolina. There were five…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, School Safety, Performance, Middle Schools
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
Christine Slechter – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative research study investigates teachers' perceptions of school safety and their adherence to specific safety procedures in a small, pre-K-eighth-grade school district in a small, suburban school district in Illinois. Data were collected through anonymous open-ended surveys distributed to teachers with varying experience levels. The…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, School Safety, School Districts, Preschool Teachers
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
