Safe Schools Resources
Web sites that offer safe schools resources for educators,
some of which provide links to more sites of interest.
Please note that Missouri NEA does not control the content
of the sites listed here--they are entirely the responsibility
of the respective webmasters and organizations. While we believe
these sites to be generally of high quality, things can change
quickly in cyberspace. If you discover a problem or concern
about any of these links, please let us know by sending an
email to MNEA.
Also, be sure to let us know of any additional safe schools
resources on-line that you've discovered and would like us
to consider listing here.
- Standing up to Bullies
brochure
- NEA's
No-Taunting Pledge
- MNEA's Safe Schools Flyers
- NEA Safe
Schools Resources, provide cutting edge research, news
articles, Association policy, model state programs, and
discussions about what other organizations are saying.
- Safe Schools Grants, Department of Elementary
and Secondary Education, Rusty Rosenkoetter and Carolyn
Deffenbaugh, P.O. Box 480, Jefferson City, MO 65102, phone:
573/751-8247. Grants to fund preventive and interventive
educational programs to serve students who are violent,
abusive or chronically disruptive.
- The Center
for Safe Schools, University of Missouri-Kansas City,
School of Education, Russ Thompson and Dr. Pat Henley, 51
00 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO 64110-2499, phone: 816/235-5656.
A Wide variety of resources and information on management
schools, student identification/selection, and evaluation.
- The National Resource
Center for Safe Schools, offers a wide variety of information
and links to resources. Phone 800/547-6339 ext. 131.
- National School Safety
Center, provides a wide range of information and linkages
to multiple resources.
- Local Government/School Partnership Program,
Department of Public Safety, Tim Taylor, P.O. Box 749, Jefferson
City, MO 65102, phone: 573/751-4905. Grants to local government,
police department and school district (consortia) for programs
to reduce crime and violence.
- Show
Me PREP (Personal Responsibility Education Process),
Cooperating School Districts, Linda McKay, director, 8225
Florissant Road, St. Louis, MO 63121, phone: 800/478-5684.
Information and staff training in character education, lesson
plans and activities.
- National Association
of School Resource Officers provides training dates
and locations as well as other resources for school resource
officers.
- Safe Schools Coalition
is a non-profit organization that works to reduce violence
and promote health and safety in schools. Grant resources
and workshops are listed.
- The National Crime Prevention
Council offers the free resource, "Stopping School
Violence."
- Various Initiatives Announced at November White
House Conference on School Safety provides information
on various programs, grants and publications that President
Clinton has proposed.
- "Keeping
Schools Open as Community Learning Centers: Extending
Learning in a Safe, Drug-Free Environment Before and After
School" gives practical ideas and highlights successful
programs for learning activities.
- "1998 Annual Report
on School Safety," the first annual report on school
crime and safety from NCES.
- According to the U.S. Department of Education's new addition
to their online library, there are several ingredients to
creating safe, orderly, drug-free schools. The booklet,
Creating
Safe and Drug-Free Schools: An Action Guide, provides
information on preventing juvenile violence, truancy, alternative
education programs for expelled students, mentoring in schools,
effective data collection for safe public schools, and exemplary
practices.
- National Alliance
for Safe Schools, offers a wide variety of information.
Their address is: P.O. Box 1068, College Park, MD 20741.
Phone: 301/935-6063.
- For more information about Title
IV Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Community check the
Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education's
federal programs site.
- "Early
Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools,"
a document provided by the U.S. Department of Education
which offers research-based practices designed to assist
school communities.
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