BRIEF SUMMARY School violence is a broad term that includes overt aggressive behaviors such as physical fights on campus, bullying (including online bullying or cyber-bullying), physical assault, bombing, arson, or other deliberate means of causing harm to the staff and students. School administrators and crisis team members can create safe, secure, and peaceful schools free […]
BRIEF SUMMARY [See also Career and Technical Education.] A vocational school, sometimes also called a trade school, career center, or vocational college, is a type of educational institution, which, depending on country, may refer to secondary or post-secondary education designed to provide vocational education, or technical skills required to perform the tasks of a particular […]
BRIEF SUMMARY Threat assessment is intended to prevent violence and involves both assessment and intervention. Threat assessment involves determining whether a student poses a threat of violence (they have intent and means to carry out the threat). KEY POINTS It is important for school personnel to establish a threat assessment protocol to insure consistency and […]
BRIEF SUMMARY The term “domestic violence” includes felony or misdemeanor crimes of violence committed by a current or former spouse or intimate partner of the victim, by a person with whom the victim shares a child in common, by a person who is cohabitating with or has cohabitated with the victim as a spouse or […]
BRIEF SUMMARY Valedictorian is an academic title of success for the student who delivers the closing or farewell statement at a graduation ceremony (called a valediction). The chosen valedictorian is often the student with the highest ranking (highest GPA) among their graduating class. Some institutions confer the title on the class member chosen to deliver […]
