Ensuring Safe School Environments : Exploring Issues, Seeking Solutions

by Fishbaugh, Mary Susan E.; Berkeley, Terry R.; Schroth, Gwen; Fishbaugh, Mary Susan

• ISBN13: 9780805843101
• ISBN10: 0805843108
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

Ensuring Safe School Environments: Exploring Issues--Seeking Solutionspresents research findings and information about school violence, with a focus on strategies for increasing school safety. Based on a special topical issue ofRural Special Education Quarterly, the original journal articles have been rewritten to address safe schools from the perspective of suburban and urban, as well as rural environments. Topics include the frequency of violence in these different settings; violence as it directly impacts school administrators; strategies for preventing and addressing violence at both the school and individual levels; and ways to work with the community both in and out of schools. Part I focuses on issues. In Part II, solutions that have been used to deal with youth violence are offered for readers to consider, including chapters on effective conflict management practices, behavioral support plans, school-community relations, the development of a caring school community as a way to decrease tendencies toward violence, and a model which demonstrates an in-practice, state-wide program designed to assist in the development of a community-focused school. Each chapter concludes with discussion questions and a case study to enhance understanding of and reflection on the issues surrounding school violence. The text is intended as supplementary material for any course preparing school administrators. Presenting both research and practice, the text can be a guide for practicing school administrators in their search for ways to insure the safety and well being of the students whom they serve, as well as a resource for individuals in other community-based human service agencies who deal with school violence.

Table of Contents

Series Editor Foreword	ix
Larry W. Hughes
Preface	xi
PART I EXPLORING ISSUES	1	(66)
Congressional Testimony: School Violence From the Perspective of a National Crisis Response Consultant	3	(10)
Scott Poland
A Comparison of Urban and Rural Conditions and Their Relationship to School Violence	13	(26)
Gwen Schroth
Anita Pankake
Harry Fullwood
Gordon Gates
Decreasing School Violence: A Research Synthesis	39	(20)
Carolyn Kneese
Harry Fullwood
Gwen Schroth
Anita Pankake
Violence and School Principals	59	(8)
Edward H. Seifert
PART II SEEKING SOLUTIONS	67	(96)
Resolving Conflicts in Schools: An Educational Approach to Violence Prevention	69	(20)
Katharin A. Kelker
Creating Positive Behavior Support Plans for Students With Significant Behavioral Challenges	89	(18)
Barbara J. Ayres
Deborah L. Hedeen
School--Community Relations: Policy and Practice	107	(26)
Linda Taylor
Howard S. Adelman
Peaceable School Communities: Morality and the Ethic of Care	133	(16)
Linda P. Thurston
Terry R. Berkeley
The Montana Behavioral Initiative: A Statewide Response to Issues of School Violence	149	(14)
Mary Susan E. Fishbaugh
Joe Furshong
Appendix	163	(14)
Author Index	177	(6)
Subject Index	183