Safe School Ambassadors: Harnessing Student Power to Stop Bullying and Violence is an essential guide for school administrators, counselors, teachers, parents, and youth organization leaders. It challenges the current “outside-in” thinking that keeping schools safe is accomplished primarily by adults through heightened security and stricter policies. It makes the case for a complementary “inside-out” approach that taps the power of students to change the social norms of a school culture in order to stop bullying and violence.
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Safe School Ambassadors Research
The Safe School Ambassadors (SSA) Program is built on a solid foundation of research, including the work of three pioneers in the field of bullying prevention. A review of published literature on bullying conducted by Denver CO-based Omni Research & Training found that the core principles of the SSA Program are supported by precedents and research.
Security is Not Safety Position Paper
Any rational approach for making our schools safe learning environments must begin by first unpacking and understanding this premise: Security and safety are two different and necessary responses to effectively preventing and stopping school violence
Ten Keys to Safer Schools
A framework for planning and implementing a school safety plan that involves and empowers youth, administrators, teachers and parents in creating safer schools and achieving critical educational outcomes