School Climate
Resources and best practices for programs and activities that improve the quality of social and emotional life for all students and staff in school environments.
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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Caregivers: Back to School Resources
This brief guide offers resources to help caregivers as they plan and prepare for students returning to the classroom.
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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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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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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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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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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-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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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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Preventing and Responding to Bias and Hate Incidents in K-12 Educational Settings: A Toolkit for School Communities and Leaders
This CRS toolkit contains best practices, strategies, and resources for supporting safe and inclusive K-12 educational environments, free of harassment and discrimination.
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Systematic Review: Perceptions of School Resource Officers
This systematic review evaluates various perspectives on School Resource Officers (SROs) in the school community, as well as how these perceptions may affect long-term student outcomes and policy decisions.
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Systematic Review: Anonymous Reporting Systems for School-Based Violence Prevention
Dr. Libby Messman describes a systematic review of published literature from the last 25 years on the use of Anonymous Reporting Systems (ARS) in schools of all levels (K-12, colleges, public, private, etc.) throughout the United States.
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The Science of School Safety
In this podcast episode, Mary Poulin Carlton joins host Paul Haskins to discuss bullying, school climate, mental health, and other important issues impacting school safety.
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Using Trauma-Informed, Resilience-Oriented Principles to Support Student and Staff Resiliency
In this webinar, participants learn how they can improve their school's understanding of trauma, and enhance staff and student resiliency.
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An Introduction to Restorative Practices
This guide allows for any school personnel to learn what restorative practices are, their benefits, and considerations for their use in a school setting.
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Engaging Youth in Violence Prevention
Join us and hear from youth leaders from the 4000+ Students Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE) Promise Clubs that are actively engaged in violence prevention efforts throughout the country.
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An Introduction to the Trauma-Informed, Resilience-Oriented Schools Toolkit
Join us for a live webinar and learn how to use the Trauma-Informed, Resilience-Oriented Schools Toolkit in your work!
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Fostering Family Engagement in School
Join us to learn how schools can foster family involvement and engagement to increase student feelings of belonging and academic success.
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The Next Five Things an SRO Should Do (School Resource Officer Video Series)
In an earlier video in our SRO series, you learned the first five things an SRO should do. This last video of the series shares the next five things you should do.
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The Causes and Consequences of School Violence: A Review
This report commissioned by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) takes a comprehensive look at the state of the research on school violence and includes additional discussions about research on serious violence and studies that were funded by NIJ’s Comprehensive School Safety Initiative.
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Autism Spectrum Disorder (School Resource Officer Video Series)
In your role as a School Resource Officer (SRO), you can model respect for behavioral differences through the way you support a student with ASD or other developmental conditions.
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Cultural Differences: Who Knew? (School Resource Officer Video Series)
As a School Resource Officer (SRO), you are vital in bridging cultural differences and creating a climate of inclusion, ultimately making your school a safer and richer place.
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Trauma-Informed, Resilience-Oriented Classrooms
Learn about the concept of Trauma-Informed, Resilience-Oriented Schools. This innovation encourages schools to infuse the values of safety, trust, choice, collaboration, empowerment, peer support, diversity and inclusion into their Multi-Tiered System of Supports.
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Trauma-Informed, Resilience-Oriented Leadership and Crisis Navigation
Grow your understanding of what it means to be a school leader and gain strategies you can use to navigate crises while maintaining a trauma-informed, resilience-oriented lens.
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