Leadership Strategies for Safe Schools

"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."

—Kathy Bohan, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology

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."

—Jeffrey Daniels, Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology

West Virginia University

Develop a proactive—not reactive—approach to school safety!

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 mediationDiversity educationEmpower 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.