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Featured School Safety Articles:

     Strategic School Safety Leaders-ASBJ Dec 2023

     A Holistic Approach to School Safety (AASA, April 2019) 

     Why Social Bonding Is a School-Safety Priority (ASCD, Educational Leadership – October 2019) 

Hot Topics in School Safety:

• Access & Visitor Control
• Administration Office and Board Meeting Security
• After-School & Weekend Security
• ALICE Training, Run-Hide-Fight, & Attacking Gunmen
• Architecture, Design & Safety
• Arming Teachers & School Staff
• Athletic Event Security
• Background Checks: Teachers, School Employees
• Best Practices: School Security & Emergency Planning
• Bombs Threats & Bombs
• Budget Constraints & School Safety
• Bullying & Anti-Bullying Legislation
• Bus & Transportation Security
• Cell Phones & Text Messaging in Schools
• Child Safety to and from School
• Communicating School Safety
• Computers/Internet & School Safety
• Congressional Testimony on School Safety
  • Congressional Testimony – House Education Committee (2007)
  • Congressional Testimony – House Homeland Security Committee (2007)
  • Congressional Testimony – Joint Subcommittee Hearing on Strengthening School Safety (2009)
  • Congressional Testimony – Senate HELP Committee (1999)
• Crime Reporting & Underreporting
• Crisis/Emergency Plan Templates
• Election Day School Security
• Elementary School Safety
• Equipment & Technology for School Security
• Fighting (Student) and Teacher Safety
• Gangs and School Safety
• High School Graduations, Elementary and Middle School Promotion Ceremonies School Safety
• Hiring School Safety & Security Consultants
• Metal Detectors in Schools
• Parents & School Safety
• Persistently Dangerous Schools Law
• Psychological Safety & Physical Safety
• School Resource Officers
• Selecting a School Safety Consultant
• State-level Strategies for School Safety
• Students and School Safety 
• Suicide Deaths on School Campus
• Tasers & Police in Schools
• Terrorism Preparedness & Schools
• Threat Assessment: Threats & Rumors
• Transportation & School Bus Security
• Uniforms, Dress, & Book Bags
• Warning Signs of Youth Violence
• Zero Tolerance

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