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Jurs, Rebecca – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological case study was to investigate how school safety protocols have changed in a suburban county since the Sandy Hook Elementary 2012 school shooting. Through interviews of district safety directors and school resource officers and analyzing district school safety documents, this study showed how…
Descriptors: School Safety, School Violence, Weapons, Crime
O'Donnell, Robert William – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this study was to examine changes implemented by public school district personnel in response to the Newtown school shooting that occurred on December 14, 2012. The researcher used the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS) to gather quantitative…
Descriptors: Violence, Weapons, School Safety, Surveys
Crepeau-Hobson, Franci; Nickerson, Amanda; Cook, Erin – Communique, 2016
Shortly after the attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School that killed 20 children and six school staff members on December 14, 2012, Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy established the Sandy Hook Advisory Commission to review laws, policies, and practices in place at the time to make recommendations to reduce the probability of another attack.…
Descriptors: Violence, Crisis Management, Elementary Schools, Advisory Committees
Trump, Kenneth S. – District Administration, 2013
In this article, the author shares his thoughts for district administrators regarding the Sandy Hook Elementary school tragedy. Administrators heard a lot of potential solutions or attempts at solutions. However, these proposals raise lengthy lists of implementation questions and issues that illustrate a lack of understanding of school operations,…
Descriptors: School Security, Best Practices, Reflection, Administrators