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School administrators need to establish safe academic environments. Emphasizing effective strategies and practices that emerge from collaborative, community-building efforts, Calabrese shows how administrators, teachers, parents, and students can work together to ensure physical and emotional safety. The system of communication introduced by Leadership for Safe Schools--which focuses on constructive activities, and establishing a common cause among diverse groups of individuals--can be designed to fill the unique needs of every school.

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title Leadership for Safe Schools A Community-based Approach author - photo 1
title:Leadership for Safe Schools : A Community-based Approach
author:Calabrese, Raymond L.
publisher:Scarecrow Press
isbn10 | asin:0810838869
print isbn13:9780810838864
ebook isbn13:9780585387482
language:English
subjectSchool violence--United States--Prevention, Community and school--United States, Educational leadership--United States.
publication date:2000
lcc:LB3013.3.C32 2000eb
ddc:371.7/82
subject:School violence--United States--Prevention, Community and school--United States, Educational leadership--United States.

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Leadership for Safe Schools

A Community-Based Approach

Raymond L. Calabrese

Leadership for Safe Schools - image 2

The Scarecrow Press, Inc.

Scarecrow Education

Lanham, Maryland, and London

2000

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Some images in the original version of this book are not available for inclusion in the netLibrary eBook.


SCARECROW PRESS, INC.


Published in the United States of America by Scarecrow Press, Inc.

4720 Boston Way, Lanham, Maryland 20706

www.scarecrowpress.com


4 Pleydell Gardens, Folkestone

Kent CT20 2DN, England


Copyright 2000 by Raymond L. Calabrese


All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher.


British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available


Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data


Calabrese, Raymond L., 1942

Leadership for safe schools : a community-based approach / Raymond L. Calabrese.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

ISBN 0-8108-3886-9 (alk. paper) ISBN 0-8108-3898-2 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. School violenceUnited StatesPrevention. 2. Community and schoolUnited States. 3. Educational leadershipUnited States. I. Title.


LB3013.3 .C32 2000
371.782dc21
00-044546

Picture 3 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.481992.

Manufactured in the United States of America.

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This book is dedicated to my best friend and wife, Barb; my parents, Annie and Louis Calabrese, who taught me to believe in my ideas and myself; and my daughters, Prudence, Catherine, Angela, Michelle, and Christine.

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Contents

Preface

ix

PLANNING FOR SAFE SCHOOLS

1

Three Cornerstones of Constructing a Safe School Environment 3

Planning for a Safe School Environment 7

Using Information to Gain Leverage in the Planning Process 11

Sharpen Your Group Processing Skills 12

The Leader's Challenge 16

Summary 16

Notes 19


SHARED VALUES: THE FOUNDATION TO COMMITMENT

21

The Leader's Role in Developing Shared Values 21

Sabotaging Myths 24

Identifying Core Values 24

Identifying Shared Values 26

Linking Shared Values to a Safe School Strategic Plan 27

Linking Values to Safe School Strategies through Communication 29

Using Symbolic Events as a Means of Communicating Values 31

Establishing Boundaries 33

Summary 40

Notes 41

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DEVELOPING A SHARED VISION

43

Vision 43

Creating Powerful Metaphor Images 47

Developing a Metaphor 49

Identifying a Metaphor to Symbolize the School 55

Describing the Metaphor's Meaning 56

Developing a Common Metaphor 57

An Example of a Dynamic Metaphor 58

Summary 61

Notes 62


SHAPING THE ORGANIZATIONAL BELIEF SYSTEM

63

The Power of the Belief System 63

Examining the Medical Model of the Belief System 65

Creating a Power-Filled Belief System 67

Developing Skilled Performance 70

Confidence 71

Developing a Widespread Confidence in the Team's Ideas 74

Developing Personal Confidence 75

Framing the Issue 77

Components of a Well-Written Safe School Plan 78

Communicating the Safe School Plan 79

Summary 80

Notes 81


APPLY APPROPRIATE ACTIONS

83

Linking the Team's Vision to the Safe School Plan 83

Components of an Effective Vision 84

The Team's Mission as a Means to Achieving a Vision 87

Missions Act as Guideposts 88

Create a Map 89

The SWOT Analysis as a Means to Understanding the Environmental Context 90

Identify and Apply Appropriate Benchmarks 95

Potential Emerging Benchmarks 98

Creating Benchmarks 100

Summary 103

Notes 103

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GAINING AGREEMENT

107

Consensus 107

Applying Appropriate Approaches 112

Analyzing Data 118

Report Findings to the Community 118

A Consensus Model 119

Summary 127

Notes 128


THE KNOWLEDGE BASE

131

The Strategic Knowledge Base 132

Specific Safe School Strategies 142

Application of Knowledge tothe SafeSchool Plan 145

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