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Assessing Your School Site
Department of Education
This course was designed to help K-12 schools and districts understand what site assessments are and how they can be used to inform school emergency operations plans and safety, security, emergency management, and preparedness programs.
Preventing School Shootings: The Effectiveness of Safety Measures
Third Party, 2017
This essay seeks examine the empirical evidence surrounding common security measures enacted in response to well publicized school shootings and calling for the use of an evidence based approach to school safety.
The Design of Safe, Secure and Welcoming Learning Environments, 2019 Report
Third Party, 2019
On October 19, 2018, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE) summit brought together architects, policymakers, students, educators, school administrators, law enforcement and building code officials, mental health experts, and others to examine violence in schools and explore ways to holistically improve safety and security in our school communities.