PPS 713 - Safe School Environments

3 Units
This course provides candidates with opportunities and experiences to understand ways school environments can both detract from and enhance the safety and well-being of pupils, staff and the entire school community. The course provides candidates with a review of the etiological roots of violence that occur within and outside the school community. Candidates will have opportunities and experiences to research and develop school safety strategies that include comprehensive school climate and crisis response plans addressing elements of prevention, intervention and treatment, culminating in the development of a comprehensive program to reduce the incidence of school site violence. The program provides candidates with knowledge and skills that address the needs of witnesses, victims and perpetrators of violence as they relate to improved behavior and enhance teaching and learning.
May not be audited