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Safe at School: A Practical Guide to Building Safer Schools Through Culture, Presence, and Trust

Safe at School: A Practical Guide to Building Safer Schools Through Culture, Presence, and Trust

Paperback

General Education

ISBN13: 9798193018094
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 16 2026
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A school can have locked doors, cameras, emergency plans, and new technology and still be one weak handoff away from chaos. Real school safety begins long before a crisis. It is built in hallways, classrooms, reporting systems, staff relationships, daily supervision, and the thousands of small decisions adults make throughout the school day.Safe at School is a practical guide for school leaders, teachers, counselors, paraprofessionals, safety and security staff, and other adults responsible for keeping students safe. P.J. Agness examines school security as an operating system, showing how culture, adult presence, trust, consistency, early intervention, clear reporting, and reliable follow-through work together to prevent problems from growing.Rather than relying on fear or promising that one product can solve school safety, this book focuses on the conditions schools can improve every day. Readers will learn how to strengthen supervision during high-risk transitions, create clearer reporting pathways, recognize concerning patterns without turning staff into amateur threat assessors, improve teacher backup, build student trust, clarify adult authority, reduce reactive decision-making, and connect everyday prevention with established school safety systems.The expanded second edition also includes practical applications throughout, a 30-Day Back-to-School Safety Reset, a Practical School Security Audit, and the First-Bell Safety Scorecard to help leadership teams identify weak points and turn ideas into visible action. If your goal is a school that feels calm, supervised, connected, and competently run, Safe at School provides a clear framework for building that culture before you need the crisis plan.

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