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The items below are the most popular NASSP resources on school climate and safety. Most articles require NASSP member login. (Not a member? Join now.)

Featured: Safe Schools - A Best Practice Guide

Documents

  • Safety in the Science Lab
    Chemical safety, though sometimes overlooked, is an important component of school safety.
    By Susan J. Nix and Randy J. Nix
  • Safety Relies on Climate
    Breaking Ranks in Practice
    By Patti Kinney
  • Teaching Safety for the Online Playground
    The Board of Directors recently approved a position statement on Internet safety, recognizing that the Internet is a social and academic environment with enormous potential, but it can be a minefield for students and the adults who care for them.
  • A Climate for Learning
    Intergroup animosity can damage any school's climate, but proactive techniques build collegiality among student groups.
    By Sengsouvanh Soukamneuth
  • Fostering Gratitude
    Student Services
    By David N. Miller
  • School Solutions for Cyberbullying
    A plan, some common sense, and lots of education can reduce incidents of Internet abuse among students.
    By Susan Sutton
  • The Four Elements of Trust - ML Edition
    A former principal discovers that teachers' trust in the principal is key to developing a highly collaborative school climate.
    By Devin Vodicka
  • Do All the Good You Can
    Meet Mark Wilson, the 2009 MetLife/NASSP High School Principal of the Year. From the January issue of Principal Leadership.
  • Challenge Night
    Students can lead one another toward changing their own school culture--you just have to provide the opportunities, get them started, and encourage the process.
    By Nelson Beaudoin
  • School Safety Alert Program
    The School Safety Alert Program helps protect, educate, and mobilize principals, administrators, educators and parents to remove unsafe products from their schools and homes.
  • School Culture Evaluation Exercise
    An accurate depiction of your culture will provide you with a sense of the level of effort and time it will take to implement your proposed change goal. This document prompts you to consider a list of cultural elements that characterize school philosophies and practices.
  • Assessing Student Threats
    Create a threat assessment protocol so that you’ll be able to respond immediately if one of your students threatens the safety of others.
    By Judy Brunner, Beth Emmendorfer, and Dennis Lewis
  • Balancing Safety and Free Speech
    How to ensure students' safety without suppressing their constitutional rights. (HS edition)
    By David L. Hudson Jr.
  • Balancing Student Privacy and School Safety: A Guide to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act for Elementary and Secondary Schools
    School officials are regularly asked to balance the interests of safety and privacy for individual students. While the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) generally requires schools to ask for written consent before disclosing a student's personally identifiable information to individuals other than his or her parents, it also allows schools to take key steps to maintain school safety. Understanding the law empowers school officials to act decisively and quickly when issues arise.
  • Drill, Baby, Drill
    Fire drills are nothing new—but is your school really prepared for an emergency evacuation?
    By Todd Kerkhoff
  • Logical Consequences: Using Passing Times to Prevent Misbehavior
    When students know that disruptive behavior will cost them the social opportunities of passing times, that consequence is meaningful and effective.
    By Dion Harriman and Christina Pierre
  • Please Respect Me!
    Sometimes, respect isn’t about treating others the way you want to be treated, but about treating them the way they want to be treated.
    By Matthew Guldin
  • Police Partners: A Q&A With Kevin Quinn
    Find out exactly how school resource officers contribute to a safer school climate.
    By Jan Umphrey
  • Responding to Tragedy
    Practical Matters
    By J.T. Coopman with Anne Young
  • Everyday Encouragement for Staff Members
    Breaking Ranks in Practice
    By Patti Kinney
  • Safety by Design
    Schools, both old and new, can incorporate design principles that increase safety and security and subtly signal the appropriate behavior for public, semipublic, and private spaces. (HS edition)
    By Don Blue
  • Collaboration for Change
    A high school faculty not only agreed to implement block scheduling but also envisioned the change as a process of continual improvement.
    By Linda Wesson with Sr. Jane Marie Kudlacz
  • Public Health Officials Offer Swine Flu Guidance to Schools
    Schools can be leading indicators of public health outbreaks, so the Department of Education hosted a conference call this on April 27, 2009, to guide education officials on how to identify, contain, report and prevent swine influenza in school facilities. One frequently asked question from the call: Under what circumstances should schools close? A few U.S. schools have closed. CDC offers this

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