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trauma

Join Innovative Research to Reduce Sexual Harassment and Assault

Esther Warkov, Ph.D., is Executive Director and Co-Founder of Stop Sexual Assault in Schools, a national nonprofit addressing rampant K-12 sexual harassment and assault After our daughter was...

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guns

Incorporate Inclusivity into Your School Safety Plan

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is a prominent topic in K-12 education, but it is often not thought of when designing a school safety plan, despite regular reminders of the need for...

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guns

How Many More Dead Children and Teachers?

As NBA coach Steve Kerr loudly pleaded a couple of weeks back during his press conference, when are we going to do something about this? At what point will our senators in Washington D.C. put their...

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guns

Want Justice For Uvalde? It'll Only Happen If You Can Outspend Lobbyists.

Nineteen second, third, and fourth graders and at least two teachers are dead (as of this writing) after a gunman entered yet another school with another automatic weapon designed to do only one...

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Teaching

It Didn't Take Long for My Students to Ask About the Buffalo Shooting

It didn’t take long for them to ask. Just a little bit of downtime and a student approached. “Mr. Wamsted, did you hear about the shooting in Buffalo?” All around the country, teachers went to school...

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Mental Health

Why the Oxford Shooter’s Plea for Help Went Unanswered

As more information on the events leading up to the Oxford school shooting came to light, journalists and the prosecutor in the case began publicly questioning the decision school counselors made to...

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