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Leadership Strategies for Safe Schools
Second Edition
Edited by:
- Elizabeth A. Barton - Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, Wayne State University
June 2009 | 192 pages | Corwin
Students learn best when they are in a safe and supportive environment. Elizabeth A. Barton guides principals, administrators, and teachers through the process of creating a proactive, student-centered school safety program. Updated to reflect current research, especially related to marginalized students, the second edition of Leadership Strategies for Safe Schools offers new case studies, vignettes, and strategies from needs assessment to program evaluation, and provides detailed information about how to implement programs for:
Character education and development
Conflict resolution
Peer mediation
Diversity education
Empower your students through educational experiences that help them gain respect for cultural differences, practice enhanced problem-solving skills, and build healthier social relationships in and out of the classroom.
Introduction
1. Creating a Safe School
2. Setting the Foundation
3. Positioning Character Development in School Curricula
4. Implementing Conflict Resolution Education
5. Peer Mediation Programming
6. Integrating Diversity Into Conflict Resolution Programs
7. Evaluating School Safety Programs
Appendix
References
Index
“The book emphasizes a proactive, preventive approach to building safe schools through education programs. The interweaving of character education, conflict resolution, peer mediation, and diversity training is powerful.”
Northern Arizona University
“A solid resource for educators, with proven methods for creating safe schools. Includes a number of useful supplemental materials, from forms to guidelines and plans.”
West Virginia University
The second edition of Leadership Strategies for Safe Schools contains a number of modifications that will better assist school leaders with assessing, developing, implementing, and evaluating proactive strategies for safe schools. Case studies, scenarios, and classroom activities have been added throughout the book to provide real-life examples of the concepts and strategies presented. Research has been updated throughout, with a particular emphasis on marginalized populations, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender/transsexual (LGBT) adolescents.
