School Crisis Case Studies

Helen M. Sharp

doi:10.5771/9781607091530

Summary

This book offers readers twenty crisis case studies from the inside of school buildings. The author_a licensed administrator and former teacher_presents salient situations and incidents that, unfortunately, are almost common occurrences. These might include disaffected pupils; intruder(s) in a building; a school's potentially negative atmosphere; skills learning vs. project learning; and girls fighting. All cases are realistic, timely, and thought-provoking, supplemented with a series of discussion questions for a school staff or safety group or a university student enrolled in an administrative course of study. Rather than a theoretical approach or one based on scientific investigation or a specific model, the author describes events and circumstances that are present and problematic in many schools here and abroad. Becoming familiar with potential solutions is as important as pinpointing available sources in one's own school district. School Crisis Case Studies provides readers with the opportunity to anticipate specific crisis situations and suggests responses, using the security measures and personnel available in the schools they are familiar with.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2009
ISBN-Print: 978-1-60709-151-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-60709-153-0
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 122
Product type: Book Titles

1. CONTENTS No access
2. PREFACE No access
3. FOREWORD: SCHOOL CRISIS PLANNING: A School Leader’s Perspective No access
Chapter 01. THE NEW IMPERATIVE: Safe School Behavior, Strategies, and Practices No access Pages 1 - 6
Chapter 02. AN ATMOSPHERE FORACADEMIC SUCCESS No access Pages 7 - 10
Chapter 03. AN ADMINISTRATOR’S STYLE No access Pages 11 - 14
Chapter 04. AUTHORITATIVE INSTRUCTORS No access Pages 15 - 22
Chapter 05. CHANGING STUDENT ATTITUDES No access Pages 23 - 28
Chapter 06. COUNSELORS AND STUDENTS’ WELL-BEING No access Pages 29 - 36
Chapter 07. CREATING AND SUSTAINING PARENTAL PARTNERSHIPS No access Pages 37 - 42
Chapter 08. DISAFFECTED STUDENTS No access Pages 43 - 48
Chapter 09. DISENGAGED STUDENTS No access Pages 49 - 56
Chapter 10. ELEMENTS OF EFFECTIVE LESSONS No access Pages 57 - 62
Chapter 11. FEMALE STUDENTS FIGHTING No access Pages 63 - 66
Chapter 12. INTRUDERS IN THE SCHOOL BUILDING No access Pages 67 - 76
Chapter 13. POTENTIAL SCHOOL DROPOUTS: Finish School or Full-Time Job? No access Pages 77 - 82
Chapter 14. STUDENTS WHO DISLIKE SCHOOL No access Pages 83 - 90
Chapter 15. THE SCHOOL SAFETY OFFICER No access Pages 91 - 94
Chapter 16. SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY No access Pages 95 - 100
Chapter 17. STUDENT BEHAVIORS AND ATTITUDES TOWARD ACADEMICS No access Pages 101 - 108
Chapter 18. RESPONSES TO AN INDIVIDUAL WHO TALKS ABOUT DESTRUCTIVE ACTS IN A SCHOOL SETTING No access Pages 109 - 114
Chapter 19. TEENS’ VIOLENCE AGAINST TEENS No access Pages 115 - 120
ABOUT THE AUTHOR No access Pages 121 - 122