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Protecting Our Future: Partnering to Safeguard K-12 Organizations from Cybersecurity Threats reports on cybersecurity risks facing elementary and secondary schools and provides recommendations that include cybersecurity guidelines designed to help schools face these risks. The accompanying media kit includes three one-sheet reference guides on key findings, recommendations, and the most impactful security measures.

This product provides K–12 schools and districts with products, tools, and Counter-Improvised Explosive Device (C-IED) strategies to protect, prevent, mitigate, and respond to bombing threats.

Going back to school can involve worries beyond whether students will like their teachers or who they will sit with at lunch. Many students, parents, and educators live with a steady undercurrent of anxiety about school safety. With expert support, schools can work with their community to stop school violence before it starts. This article features several innovative school violence prevention programs.

The purpose of this study was to understand the frequency of school-related gun violence across a quarter century, considering both school shootings and school mass shootings.

The National Center for School Safety is focused on improving school safety and preventing school violence.

The School Threat Assessment Tool Kit is designed to aid schools in employing behavioral threat assessment and management as part of a comprehensive violence prevention strategy.

Seeking to shed additional light on how K–12 schools in the United States are being targeted by social media–based threats, this report examines what schools are doing to investigate each threat’s credibility, ensure the safety of their communities, and work with local and other partners in these areas.

In this webinar, learn about the role of officers on school safety teams, how they can help develop a school safety plan, and the resources available to support plans.

This tool kit is designed to help K–12 schools and law enforcement and community partners create tailored approaches to addressing anonymous threats of violence, including those received on social media.

School Resources Officers (SROs) have become more consistently present in schools around the country. But how do students, teachers, principals, and parents perceive the role and effectiveness of SROs? To help answer this question, researchers from Michigan State University conducted a systematic review of the literature on SRO perceptions. In this video, they discuss the systematic review results and how SRO perceptions may affect long-term student outcomes and policy decisions.

School safety is an important concern for the more than 49.5 million students and staff in schools across the country. It is fundamental to addressing and preventing youth violence, and fostering positive student well-being, academic achievement, and prosocial behavior. However, new information from the Center for Disease Control’s Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance data shows that there is an increase in threats to schools, as more students are bringing weapons to school.

School Resource Officers (SROs) are present in many communities across the country. SROs must be youth advocates, educators, and protectors of all students in the schools they serve. This video series helps SROs consider the way students think, how to connect with them, how to break down barriers to communication, and how to become a successful presence in their school.

This report includes various intervention options that are valuable for schools in the management phase of behavioral threat assessment and management (BTAM). It also discusses decision support tools to help management teams implement BTAM as a critical part in preventing targeted violence and keeping school communities safe.

This course provides educational stakeholders with a structure to develop and implement a school reunification plan.

Introduction to Behavioral Intervention Teams, an eLearning course, provides an overview of the function of a Behavioral Intervention Team (BIT) within a school environment. Main topics include identifying the role and purpose of a BIT, reviewing key terminology, and exploring strategies to implement a BIT in any school. Additionally, the course outlines the school resource officer’s role in a BIT.