Leadership for Safe Schools

Leadership for Safe Schools is every school and district leaders guide to developing practical policies and carefully designed action plans to ensure that K12 students are physically and psychologically safe, secure, and supported. With todays students experiencing soaring rates of depression, anxiety, trauma, loneliness, and suicidalityin addition to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the normalization of school shootingsschool personnel desperately need multifaceted approaches that decrease violence, facilitate social connectedness, and promote emotional well-being. This books proactive, preventive, and responsive Three Pillar Model offers a coherent framework for creating safe and supportive schools and fostering student mental health. Each chapter guides school leaders and administrators to implement evidence-based interventions and strategies, including: strategies for school safety, threat assessment, suicide prevention, and anti-violence efforts easy-to-apply improvements to school climate and culture social supports for diverse students, including the marginalized, victimized, and at-risk effective partnerships with families, communities, and other spheres of influence principles from positive psychology and social-emotional learning research-based strategies for trauma-informed care and crisis response Whether you are a principal or superintendent; a school psychologist, counselor, or social worker; or a school resource officer, nurse, or proactive teacher, this book will be your all-in-one inspiration for fostering resilient learning environments and implementing multi-component prevention and intervention strategies to support students mental health.