S5 Episode 3: Where School Safety Policy and Practice Collide (Part 2)

01/31/19 • 25 min

Elama Dzanic joins Angelia and Mary to continue the conversation around school safety. Elma champions the idea that the level of connectedness our students feel to our school communities, both emotionally and socially, is just as important as a student’s academic success. She emphasizes that it is the the authentic relationships created among and between students and adults in a school community that develops safety and security. Elma calls upon us to assess our own biases and to hold space for challenging topics in our classrooms. Listen in to hear some of Elma’s experiences as she provides us knowledge and expertise on how to bring about the dialogue that every child needs to feel safe and secure within their school community.

Links Mentioned:

Threat Assessment in Schools: A Guide to Managing Threatening Situations and to Creating Safe School Climates
Consciousness | Healing | Relationships by Elma Dzanic
Don’t Say Nothing: Silence speaks volumes. Our Students are listening by Jamilah Pitts
Discussing “The Mental Health Issue” After Parkland by Julia Delacroix

Links Mentioned:

Threat Assessment in Schools: A Guide to Managing Threatening Situations and to Creating Safe School Climates
Consciousness | Healing | Relationships by Elma Dzanic
Don’t Say Nothing: Silence speaks volumes. Our Students are listening by Jamilah Pitts
Discussing “The Mental Health Issue” After Parkland by Julia Delacroix

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S5 Episode 2: Where School Safety Policy and Practice Collide (Part 1)

Mary Field and guest host, Elma Dzanic, discuss the topic of school safety with Dr. Carl Hermanns. Dr. Hermanns has vast experience in and across education organizations serving as an educator, principal, assistant superintendent, and now professor at Mary Lou Fulton in the division of educational leadership and innovation. On this episode, we explore school safety data and a historical timeline of the federal government's response in an attempt to mitigate active school shooters post Columbine. Dr. Hermanns challenges us to develop authentic relationships leading to conditions where students feel a sense of belonging and connection with a school community. He emphasizes the critical role teachers play in developing authentic human relationships on and across school communities as preventative to harm and hurt caused by school violence.

The conversation is not over this week. Join us again next week for School Safety Part 2 where Angelia and Mary continue the conversation with Dzanic by discussing how we bring this new information to the classroom level and how we prepare for tough conversations in the classroom around school safety, tolerance, and bias.

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