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Karahalios, Vicky S. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Middle school is a critical transition for all school-aged youth. On a personal level they experience rapid changes across several areas of development. Their environment simultaneously adapts as schools' expectations seem greater and social pressures arise. During this juncture, they are more vulnerable to academic and psychological difficulties.…
Descriptors: Suburban Schools, Middle School Students, Emotional Development, Social Development
Osher, David, Ed.; Moroney, Deborah, Ed.; Williamson, Sandra, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2018
"Creating Safe, Equitable, Engaging Schools" brings together the collective wisdom of more than thirty experts from a variety of fields to show how school leaders can create communities that support the social, emotional, and academic needs of all students. It offers an essential guide for making sense of the myriad evidence-based…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, School Safety, Leadership Responsibility, Teamwork
Holtzman, Mellisa – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2019
Risk reduction is traditionally understood as any programming that teaches potential victims how to protect themselves from an assault. In short, risk reduction educates potential victims and suggests they modify their behaviors in order to increase their own safety. But that programming focus is precisely why risk reduction is largely absent from…
Descriptors: Rape, Crime, Sexual Abuse, Prevention
Pincus, Robert; Hannor-Walker, TeShaunda; Wright, Leonis; Justice, Judith – NASSP Bulletin, 2020
The COVID-19 global pandemic has brought about many changes to our society, which will have long-term effects for our youth and adolescents. Due to social isolation and adverse childhood experiences, there are concerns of suicidality, technology addiction, and school safety as schools attempt to transition to a state of normalcy in the months to…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Mental Health
Sullivan, Terri N.; Goncy, Elizabeth A.; Garthe, Rachel C.; Carlson, Megan M.; Behrhorst, Kathryn L.; Farrell, Albert D. – Youth & Society, 2020
This study examined relations between patterns of dating aggression and victimization and school environment factors among 4,114 early adolescents attending 37 middle schools in four sites in the United States (51% Black, non-Hispanic, 21% Hispanic, and 17% White). Latent class analyses revealed a five-class solution that differentiated among…
Descriptors: Dating (Social), Aggression, Middle School Students, Intervention
Cuellar, Matthew J. – Journal of School Violence, 2018
Recent incidents of school-based violence have resulted in the widespread implementation of school safety strategies across the United States. While research on these strategies has grown over the past decade, there is little understanding about their collective influence on indicators of school violence. Using data from the 2007-2008 School…
Descriptors: Violence, School Safety, Factor Analysis, Intervention
Louvar Reeves, Melissa A.; Brock, Stephen E. – Contemporary School Psychology, 2018
While schools are safer today than in years past, one act of school violence is one too many. Recent reports have conveyed the importance of schools developing and implementing protocols and procedures to prevent or mitigate school violence. To assist with this task, this article addresses behavioral threat assessment and management (BTAM) in the…
Descriptors: School Administration, School Safety, Violence, Best Practices
Colorado Children's Campaign, 2018
U.S. policymakers, educators and advocates have identified a need to increase school safety following several high-profile incidents of school violence. Some of the proposed solutions are not supported by evidence of their effectiveness. In the 2018-2019 budget process, both the Colorado State House and Senate amended the budget to address school…
Descriptors: School Safety, Violence, Prevention, Risk Management
Smokowski, Paul R.; Evans, Caroline B. R.; Rose, Roderick; Bacallao, Martica – Journal of School Violence, 2020
This study evaluated the efficacy of School-Based Teen Courts (SBTCs) using a rigorous experimental trial with 24 middle- and high-schools randomly selected to receive SBTCs (n= 12) or to business-as-usual without any SBTC program (n = 12). Analyses examined school-level longitudinal growth models and individual-level pretest-posttest comparisons…
Descriptors: Violence, Middle School Students, High School Students, Adolescents
Sprague, Jeffrey R.; Walker, Hill M. – Guilford Press, 2021
Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, this authoritative resource provides a complete toolkit for designing and implementing an evidence-based school safety plan. Foremost experts guide practitioners to understand and prevent violence, bullying, and peer harassment in grades K-12. Best practices are reviewed for creating a positive…
Descriptors: School Safety, Educational Environment, Bullying, Violence
Backman, Deborah; Spear, Kaitlin; Mumford, Elizabeth A.; Taylor, Bruce G. – Health Education & Behavior, 2020
Addressing the widespread problem of sexual assault in college environments requires both prevention programming and policies addressing sexual misconduct in institutions of higher education. Through the Campus Sexual Assault Policy and Prevention Initiative, nine programs funded by the Office on Women's Health approached this problem within a…
Descriptors: Crime, Sexual Abuse, Rape, College Environment
Simonsen, Brandi; Sugai, George; George, Heather P.; Freeman, Jennifer; Evanovich, Lauren – Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, 2019
Restraint and seclusion are crisis or emergency responses, which should only be used in extreme situations (e.g., a student engaging in repeated forceful physical aggression toward self or others) when risk of serious and imminent physical harm or injury is high and when an emergency response may reduce that risk. Restraint and seclusion are not…
Descriptors: Discipline, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Student Behavior
Cuellar, Matthew J.; Elswick, Susan E.; Theriot, Matthew T. – School Social Work Journal, 2017
School social workers and school security personnel are increasingly being integrated into U.S. schools; however, there is little available literature concerning the interactions between school social workers and school security personnel. This article will report descriptive findings of a study that investigated school social workers'…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, School Safety, School Social Workers, School Security
Okanlawon, Kehinde – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2020
The study utilized African theories, literatures, framework and a qualitative method with 11 heterosexual Nigerian undergraduate university students to explore their perceptions and attitudes towards homosexuality and LGB persons. The data analysis identified six categories: (a) higher tolerance observed for lesbians than gay men among…
Descriptors: Sexual Orientation, Homosexuality, LGBTQ People, Social Attitudes
De Pedro, Kris T.; Lynch, R. Jason; Esqueda, Monica C. – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2018
Nearly three decades of research have examined the experiences of LGBTQ students in schools. These include numerous studies documenting elevated rates of school victimization, as well as how an LGBTQ affirming school climate may enhance safety among LGBTQ students. Of the studies conducted, research has focused mostly on LGBTQ students in urban…
Descriptors: Victims, Educational Environment, School Districts, Correlation