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Mc Gruff for Grownups: School Safety
Site provides realistic and reasonable suggestions for parents preparing their children to go back to school. Help your child feel comfortable with going to and coming home from school safely.
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Safe Havens International: School Safety Resources
This site offers several free resources available for download as well as training materials that schools can use to create a safer environment for education.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Should You Worry About School Violence?
Violence in schools can have a major effect on not only the victim but the school as a community. This article focuses on determining the safety of your school and what to do to help prevent violence. Links to related sites are available...
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University of California
Ucla Center: Responding to Crisis at a School [Pdf]
This resource provides a brief, basic discussion of the need for a school to be able to plan and implement a response to crises. The material can be used to raise staff awareness.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Investigating School Safety and Slope
Using a 'news report' approach, students investigate the slope of various stairways on the school campus and report on wheelchair accessibility and adherence to the Americans with Disabilities Act. (PowerPoint Included) An extension of...
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Uft: Safety Plan Check List [Pdf]
This United Federation of Teachers resource includes a PDF of a safety plan checklist.
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University of Texas: Dressed for Success? The Effect of School Uniforms [Pdf]
Comprehensive report on the effect of school uniforms on school safety and achievement. For the authors' conclusions, scroll down to Page 21, Conclusion. (Jan. 15, 2010)
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Manitoba Department of Education: Science Safety
A basic manual on how to handle and dispose of laboratory materials safely. Includes a lesson plan on how to read a materials safety data sheet.
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Justice Learning: Zero Tolerance
Extensive information for students and teachers examining the issue of zero tolerance in schools and whether this was an ill-thought out policy. Resources include news articles, legal cases, legislation, audio files, etc. as well as...
US Department of Education
Us Dept. Of Education: Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools
A guide for school communities to identify warning signs of potential violence in students, and to develop prevention, intervention and crisis response plans. Can be downloaded as a PDF file.
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Mdk12.org: School Improvement in Maryland: Sip
The job of the school improvement team is to lead the development of a school improvement plan that addresses student achievement needs, to monitor the implementation of the plan, and to revise it when appropriate. Find resources on how...
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Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools
A comprehensive guide written in response to violence in schools and the efforts by the US Department of Education and the Department of Justice to develop early warning signs of violence in schools. This guide is designed to provide...
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Character Education Partnership: Bullying Prevention
An extensive collection of resources for educators and parents to help children deal with bullying, and for teaching them about the importance of respecting others.
Curated OER
Kids Health: En Espanol
Access to Spanish translations of a number of KidsHealth site articles, plus access to the English language site and complete database of information on health topics of interest to younger children, such as everyday injuries and...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Bam!: Bully Roundup
This interactive, board game style activity tests kids' knowledge of bullying and how to avoid becoming a bully and being bullied. It also offers many tips to make students more bully aware.
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National Crime Prevention Council: Mc Gruff
McGruff the Crime Dog is interested in helping you "take a bite out of crime." You can color, read comic strips, play lots of terrific games, and get great safety tips from McGruff! And don't forget to show your parents the special...
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Keep Schools Safe
Keep Schools Safe provides information for parents, students, and schools. The safety and security directory and the section offering books on school violence are both good references.
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Keep Schools Safe
Keep Schools Safe provides information for parents, students, and schools. The safety and security directory and the section offering books on school violence are both good references.
US Department of Education
Nces: School Survey on Crime and Saftey (Ssocs)
Nationally representative cross-sectional survey on school crime and safety resulting from 3,500 public elementary and secondary schools from U.S. Department of Education.
Incredible Art Department
The Incredible Art Department: School Law for the Educator
A collection of information and links on legal issues related to education. Topics include search and seizure at school, free speech, student discipline and due process, student safety, zero tolerance policies, and harassment.
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Mc Gruff for Grownups: Stand Up and Stop Bullying
Get tips and resources about bullies--features information about what bullying is and how to help a child that is a bully or that is bullied.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: School Culture: The Hidden Curriculum
Walk into any truly excellent school and you can feel it almost immediately - a calm, orderly atmosphere that hums with an exciting, vibrant sense of purposefulness. This is a positive school culture, the kind that improves educational...
PBS
Pbs: Fighting School Violence
A collection of resources on the topic of school violence, following the Littleton, Colorado shootings in 1999. Includes a link to A Guide to Safe Schools and articles on communities trying to address youth violence.
PBS
Pbs News Hour: A Deadly Trend
Transcript of an interview with three experts on the issue of school violence, following the school shooting in Springfield, Oregon in 1998. (Aired: May 22, 1998)
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