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Safety Changes In Blue Ribbon Schools Since The Attack On Columbine High School, Joseph Gust
Safety Changes In Blue Ribbon Schools Since The Attack On Columbine High School, Joseph Gust
Dissertations
Measuring school success using a variety of tools is commonplace in America.
For many years, one standard measurement of a school's success was The Blue Ribbon Award from 1982 through 2002. This award quantified success based on schools achieving successful outcomes in a variety of areas with specific criteria.
Blue Ribbon award winning schools are exceptional by Department of Education
standards. They are not exempt from school violence and the issues that plague other
schools. Academic success and awards do not prepare a school for the situation that
occurred at Columbine.
The participants I interviewed were Principals or Designees at …
The Status Of Violence Prevention In West Virginia Elementary Schools : A Case Study, Kristal Gayle Pentasuglia-Filipek
The Status Of Violence Prevention In West Virginia Elementary Schools : A Case Study, Kristal Gayle Pentasuglia-Filipek
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
While there is no absolute deterrent of school violence, West Virginia has taken definitive steps to try to ensure safety in our public schools. Since the launch of the Safe School initiative in 1995, training for principals, teachers and school personnel on crisis intervention and management plans have been ongoing. Students have undergone training in programs such as Peer Mediation, Natural Helpers, Life Skills, Bullying Prevention, Positive Behavior Support (PBS), and Respect to Protect. In addition, encouragement, mandating and providing funds for school safety and violence/crime prevention and intervention programs have been enacted legislatively. With the school security hardware, safety …
Effects Of Employee Participation And Behavior-Based Safety Programs On Osha Recordable Incident Rates, Andrew Nowicki
Effects Of Employee Participation And Behavior-Based Safety Programs On Osha Recordable Incident Rates, Andrew Nowicki
OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers
The problem of this study was to determine the effect of employee participative and behavior-based safety programs on OSHA recordable incident rates so it could be determined which type of safety program should be adapted by all of Scholle Packaging's North American facilities.