The document proposes installing metal detectors and armed security at school entrances to increase school safety. It discusses the growing issue of school violence over the last decade and cites several mass shooting incidents at schools. The proposal recommends metal detectors, armed security, and intervention programs to identify and help students with behavioral issues in order to prevent future acts of violence at schools.

1. Stephanie Turner
EDU671
Instructor: Shelia Thomas
October 26, 2013

2. introduction
In this action research proposal, I want you to know how serious the
attack of school violence has grew in the last decade. These vicious acts
of violence is a serious cry for help that have caused many parent,
administrator, and other faculty member to want to school their children from the
comfort of their home. To help make our school safe for student, teachers, and
faculty member I recommend that we install metal detectors and armed security
at the door of all public school facilities in Tunica.
The most frighten question related to school violence today is: what type of
individual are capable of committing these harmful acts of violence and why
haven’t the board of education in our school district did something to prevent
guns from getting into our school. Protecting the lives of our children's should be
one of our main concern. In this proposal, I want to see the seriousness of school
violence and the reason why we should go into our budget and implement these
technical tools to help maintain the safety of our children.

3. Explanation of Problem
As educational leader it is our
job to protect our children from
harm, hurt, or danger and give
them the tools they need to help
them feel comfortable in
pursuing their dreams. That is
why we must implement
intervention and prevention
program to help children's with
behavior problem to get the help
they need to function effectively
in in society and also implement
ways to stop guns from getting
into our school. It is time that
we work hand and hand to
prevent these violent acts from
happening in our school district.

4. Variables
Contexts, including
recognition of diverse
learners
Define factors
Variable of the proposed
study
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The context of this study is to help
you make a decision on these
The fact of the matter is that school
violence have taken the life of many of our strategies of promoting safety and
children in America. Just to let you know security in this public school district
in Tunica. Even though there have
a few, in 2001, a St. John’s University
been a variety of strategies that have
football star, Cory Mitchell, was left
been administered to help prevent
paralyzed after being shot on campus by
an outsider, sparking , since this incident and reduce school violence, the
there have been significant changes in the measure that have been presented
security procedures at Queens campus.
here is essential to helping to keep
Since this shooting, Queens campus has
school safe. By hiring an armed
enhanced their lighting, installed more
security officer and installing metal
than 250 surveillance cameras and hired
detectors and recommending
public safety officer to monitor a 24-hour
intervention programs we as
patrols, and many counseling centers to
educators are able to help students
deal with individual with behavior
feel comfortable in preparing for the
problem( Olivia Winslow & M.L.,2007).
future.
School violence is a serious issue
that have and still will effective
the lives of each of us today if we
continue to ignore this problem.
Why can’t we band together to
secure the safety of our children.

5. The most violent act I want to tell you
about happen on April 20, 1999 at
Columbine High School in Littleton
CO when Eric and Dylan, open fire
killing 12 students, a teacher and
wounded 23 students before killing
themselves. The reason that
authority believe that they did this
act of violence is because the felt
miserable and lonely after being
picked on by other kids. It was said
that Dylan was trying to get back at
the students who had mocked and
bullied them during their four years
at the Littleton, Colorado, high
school(Miller, M., 1999). After here
this what do you think we must do to
stop this violent act from happening
here.

6. Research Question
With an adequate amount of
time and resources we are able
to: ( 1) help victims of mass
shooting get their life back on
track, (2) show students we care
by doing everything we can to
help maintain safety within our
facility, (3) writing stricter
policies to help prevent this
from happening,(4) and working
together with all stakeholder to
help our students fulfill their
dreams.

7. Locus of Control
How many more of our children
must we bury before during
something to prevent this mass
destruction from happening again.
In the town of Tunica, we have not
experience a major mass killing but
we must also know that these acts of
violence's is out there and we must
do something to help prevent it from
happening here. In President
Barrack Obama proposal on gun
violence, he stated that , “ we won’t
be able to stop every violent act, but
if there is even one thing that we can
do to prevent any of these events, we
have a deep obligation, all of us, to
try” (News times, 2013).

8. Intervention/Innovation
 For the past several years we have been mourning the lost of
students and faculty member that have been killed in school
tragedies all over the world. Now it is time for us to do
something to make our children safe before we have a mass
school killing in the district of Tunica. To help do this, I propose
that board of education install metal detector into every
entrance way of all public schools in Tunica, County. Installing
metal detectors with an armed security into public schools will
help reduce the number of weapons being bought into our
school and stop other type of violence that may break out in
school warning. To help alert stakeholders of the type of people
that caused these vicious acts of violent we recommend that
intervention and preventions program be administered so that
these people can receive the help they need be letting it get to
this point.

9. Policies
Issues of violence
 In the wake of the mass shooting at Sandy
Hook elementary school in Newton, Conn
that took the life of 20 first-graders and six
educators. According to CBS news, President
Obama wrote a proposal to Congress to help
better protect our children and our
communities from tragic mass shooting like
those in Newtown, Aurora, Oak Creek, and
Tucson. In his plan he advised Congress to
do the right thing for our children, our
communities, and the country we love by
helping to keep guns out of dangerous hands.
With positive intervention counseling
program people are able to get the help they
need to effectively manage their behavior
issues. On January 16, President Obama
develop a plan to help reduce gun violence.

10.  The President’s Plan includes:
 1. closing background check loopholes to keep guns out of
dangerous hands;
 2. banning military-style assault weapons and high-capacity
magazines, and taking other common-sense steps to reduce
gun violence;
 3. Making schools safer; and
 4. Increasing access to mental health services.
Just like President’s Obama, I want to do what is
right to protect our children's from mass shooting.
In this proposal, I want parents to know that safety
is our top priority in during what it take to keep
our children safe.

11. Installing metal detectors and armed security helps school to
maintain safe from armed intruders.

12. Negotiations
 By acceptaning these
tools and techniques
that is need to secure the
safety of all individuals,
it would help to increase
learning within our
environment. This will
all reduce the amount of
risks and liabilities that
schools may obtain in
the aftermass of these
violent attacks.

13. Ethics
 “Look gun don’t kill people, people with
guns kills people.” So to help fully
protect our students from the harm of
these vigilantes I want to recommend a
intervention training to get these guns
out of the hands of these individual that
may have behavior problems. Several
school crisis are caused by individual
with behavior problems. After
experiencing mass destruction many
students decides not to go back to school
because they feel unsafe and scared, but
through intervention and prevention
program counseling students may learn
to get back control of their life. With
the help of these tools and techniques
we are able to get confiscate weapons out
of the hands of individual who may have
uncontrollable behavior problems.
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14.  Several school crisis are caused by individual with
behavior problems. After experiencing mass
destruction many students decides not to go back to
school because they feel unsafe and scared, but
through intervention and prevention program
counseling students may learn to get back control of
their life. The dependent variable in these incidents
came from individual with behavior problems and
engagement of students talking about other students.
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15. Timeline
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I acknowledge that the cost to install and operate a metal
detector may exceed the school budget but I ask you, how much
would you give to protect the life of your child. Our mission is to
keep our children safe while they prepare for their future. So if
we want to fulfill our goals we must decide to implements this
proposal.
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With all of the violence that is going on today, intervention
and preventions program should be very extensive at this time.
These program need to involve the whole community in
enriching our children's educational opportunities. Therefore
each school should have the flexibility to address its most
pressing needs at its own school. In this situation, the district
should choose what is the best intervention and preventions
programs that would best to protect their own students.

16. Statement of resources
We are so starved for all of the resourcesfinancial, human and material-to meet the needs
of our children's because many teachers are
really stressed to their limits. We would hope to
see our students re- integrated but until such
time as the behavior are within a reasonable
spectrum, we say they need to be removed fro the
classroom environment( Bissett, K., 2005). With
these resources we are able to improve the quality
of education that our children's for our children.

17. Data Collection
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When gathering meaningful data, either through quantitative or qualitative
means, is an important to the central component data that are being used to
make the claim that educational technology truly has benefits. Although selfreports and anecdotal evidence can be convincing and persuasive, there is too
much at stake for us not to use evidence-based assessment approach to
implement changes in our safety measures that are essentials for the future
success of all stakeholders(Landrum, R.E., 2013). The data that is used in these
research help up to useful measures to help support this area of focus.
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Critics of the quantitative paradigm have advocated movement toward a
qualitative paradigm. If there is little knowledge, limited access, and little
control over the situation, qualitative method become more effective.
Quantitative methods are more appropriate when establishing cause-effect
relationship and when established values and processes are not compromised
by intrusive, controlled techniques. The real issue facing social work is how we
integrate these two perspective effectively into unified approaches ( Allen, M.P.
& Lane, B.A.,1990).

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