This document discusses trends in school violence prevention. It notes that school violence has reached epidemic levels in urban areas, creating unsafe learning environments. This impacts students through high dropout rates, poor grades, and increased criminal activity. Past issues included bullying, gang activity, substance abuse, and school shootings. Solutions that have been implemented are safe passage programs, conflict management, counseling, and after school programs. To curb future violence, the document advocates for high academic expectations, strong teacher-student relationships, parental involvement, and increased community initiatives and partnerships.

1. Educational Trends:
School Violence
Prevention
Amy Gillespie, Brandice
Gore, Bethani Hincherick,
Jeffery Massey
MTE501
July 16, 2010

2. School Violence &
Countermeasure Trends
• Epidemic levels in urban
America
• Unsafe communities
have become a
mainstay problem
plaguing the basic need
for all students and staff
to operate in a safe
learning environment.
• Holistic &
comprehensive solution

3. Descriptive Factors Of School
Violence
Lack of safety deeply
impacts student learning by
causing:
• High drop out rates
• Poor grades
• Transience
• Low interest in activities
• Drug abuse
• Criminal activity
• Dysfunctional family

4. Historical Aspect-Past Violence
Past:
Issues/Solutions
• Bullying /Gang Activity
• Substance Abuse
• School Shootings &
Terrorism
• Family Violence/Neglect
• Social Networking Abuse
& Intimidation
• Harassment/Hate Crimes
• Poverty
• Systemic:
Solutions:
• Safe Passage
• Safe Haven
• Zero-Tolerance
• At-Risk Targeting
• Conflict Management
• Counseling Initiatives
• Crises Intervention
• Mentorship
• After school
programs:
-Sports

5. Impact on Schools: School
Violence
• Community-wide effort Prevention
• Effective schools = safe arenas
• Connect staff/parents to isolated/troubled children
• Comprehensive violence prevention plan
• Combat child stigmatization
• Increase federal funding options for anti-violence
initiatives
• Develop wide-ranging urban & rural anti-violence
policies
• Magnify community-school-faith based school safety

6. Trend Impact: Safe Passage
• Monitoring of student transportation routes by
community volunteers
• Student & parent education of current safety
issues
• Designation of area & pathway hazardous sites
• Police & crossing guard response-monitoring
• Posting violence hotspots

7. Future of School Violence
Violence will continue unless we
focus on:
• high expectations
• student responsibility
• frequent feedback
• interactive teaching
• clear teacher explanations and modeling
• mastery of academic content
• caring and demanding teachers
• strong parental involvement

8. “Safe Haven, Safe Summer”
program
• Faith-Based Initiative
• Partnership with City & Churches
• Athletic programs
• 500-1000 students involved
• Mentorship programs
• Community directed Law enforcement response
• Service learning opportunity

9. •Increased
community
initiatives
•Nonprofit
partnerships
•Federally funded
grant proposals
•Interagency
consortiums
•Increased parentteacher
collaboration
Arbitrate,
Negotiate &