School Personnel
Resources for administrators, principals, superintendents, teachers, and other school staff.
Spotlight Discussion: Swatting and Hoax Considerations and Response
In this roundtable discussion, you will hear from a school-based team that has recently dealt with a swatting incident.
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School Safety At A Glance
This guide discusses creating safe schools using a comprehensive and layered approach, organizing school safety strategies by the strength of their evidence base and where they fall on the prevention timeline. It also provides links to resources for implementing various school safety strategies.
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Staff: Back to School Resources
This brief guide offers resources to help school staff as they plan and prepare for students returning to the classroom.
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Bullying Prevention and Preparedness Modelling
This webinar will feature experts sharing upstream practices that will help schools reduce instances of bullying and discuss best practices for involving school staff and broaching conversations with students.
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ARS Response Skill Building Panel
This webinar will feature a diverse array of school safety professionals sharing about coordinated approaches to tip scenarios, sharing resources that have been helpful to them, and discussing the interface between threat assessment teams and triaging tips.
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Crisis Navigation in TR Schools
This self-paced training will assist school leaders in creating and strengthening a site crisis navigation team.
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School Resource Officer Video Series
This video series helps SROs consider the way students think, how to connect with them, how to break down barriers to communication, and how to become a successful presence in their school.
Watch Playlist TOPICS School-based Law Enforcement
CMS Guide to Medicaid Services and Administrative Claiming for School-based Settings
This guide was released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). It offers new flexibilities and consolidates existing guidance, making it easier for all schools to receive payment for delivering Medicaid-covered services.
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K-12 Bystander Reporting Toolkit
This toolkit created by CISA and NTAC includes strategies and guidance for safety reporting programs and encouraging bystander reporting.
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Behavioral Threat Assessment & Management at a Glance
This brief synopsis of Behavioral Threat Assessment & Management (BTAM) provides an overview of how BTAM can promote safety and prevent violence in school communities.
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Empowering Youth
This self-paced training provides an overview of youth empowerment theory and shares examples of youth empowering programs.
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NTAC: Averting Targeted School Violence
This video from the U.S. Secret Service reviews the key findings from their latest National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) study.
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Restorative Practices at a Glance
This brief synopsis of Restorative Practices (RP) provides an overview of RP principles, misconceptions about RP, and how RP can improve school climate and social emotional learning.
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Crisis Navigation in Trauma-Informed, Resilience-Oriented Schools Learning Community
This four-session learning community will assist schools in creating and strengthening a site crisis navigation team.
TOPICS Capacity Building, Comprehensive School Safety Plans
Supporting Youth Mental Health
This webinar will feature panelists from Sandy Hook Promise sharing ideas for how educators might discuss mental health with students. Tips and additional resources will also be provided, and participants will be encouraged to share their own success stories.
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A Quick Guide to School Safety Data Visualization
This guide brings together resources that explain how to collect and interpret school safety data, as well as translate it into effective data visualizations.
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Social Emotional Learning at a Glance
This brief at-a-glance synopsis of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) provides an overview of what SEL is and is not, and it's benefits to school climate and safety initiatives.
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Metropolitan District Tests Various School-Based Mental Health Services
An NIJ-funded assessment of the relative benefits of broader mental health services yields mixed results, underscoring implementation challenges.
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Synthesizing Knowledge On Equity And Equity-Based School Safety Strategies
This publication from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) provides an overview of the literature on school safety in the United States, with a focus on equity.
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School and Law Enforcement Partnerships
This self-paced training is designed to help schools and law enforcement agencies discuss what form they want their partnerships to take, and to consider important issues related to these partnerships.
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Collaboration & Information Sharing
Originally the third in a four-part series on Improving School Climate & Safety Through Inter-Professional Collaboration, this session focuses on school-based prevention programming and how different examples align with school climate.
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School-Based Prevention Programming
Originally the third in a four-part series on Improving School Climate & Safety Through Inter-Professional Collaboration, this session focuses on school-based prevention programming and how different examples align with school climate.
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Examples of Anonymous Reporting Systems
Originally the second in a four-part series on Improving School Climate & Safety Through Inter-Professional Collaboration, this session considers Anonymous Reporting Systems (ARS) and their impact on school climate.
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School Climate & Safety in the Distance Learning Environment
Originally the first in a four-part series, this webinar looks at school climate and safety, specifically as they relate to the distance learning environment.
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