This new empowerment approach toward improving school climate, social justice, and safety calls for using student, educator, and parent voices as the centerpiece for addressing the wide range of school safety and climate concerns. Currently, issues of safety focused on COVID-19 reentry to school, social distancing, use of police or SRO’s on school grounds, and the flow of the day marking safe places and times (both physical and cyberspaces) that are vulnerable to acts of racism, victimization, and possible contagion would be critical. Identifying spaces, times, and practices where students thrive and building on those successes is key. Using a Mapping and Monitoring approach, educators, parents, and students jointly design responses that match each communities’ local needs. Examples will include implications for addressing COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter social justice and safety issues. This webinar is part one of a three-part series on fostering a holistic positive school climate for the 2020-2021 school year while addressing concerns related to COVID-19 and racial unrest.
National Center for School SafetyMapping and Monitoring Methods: Empowering Schools during COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter
A live webinar presented by Dr. Ron Avi Astor, Professor, University of California Los Angeles and Dr. Rami Benbebishty, Professor Emeritus, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
July 27, 2020
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Online
Sponsored by: National Center for School Safety
Contact Information: Kerri Bergman, kerrid@umich.edu, 734-647-8295
This new empowerment approach toward improving school climate, social justice, and safety calls for using student, educator, and parent voices as the centerpiece for addressing the wide range of school safety and climate concerns. Currently, issues of safety focused on COVID-19 reentry to school, social distancing, use of police or SRO’s on school grounds, and the flow of the day marking safe places and times (both physical and cyberspaces) that are vulnerable to acts of racism, victimization, and possible contagion would be critical. Identifying spaces, times, and practices where students thrive and building on those successes is key. Using a Mapping and Monitoring approach, educators, parents, and students jointly design responses that match each communities’ local needs. Examples will include implications for addressing COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter social justice and safety issues. This webinar is part one of a three-part series on fostering a holistic positive school climate for the 2020-2021 school year while addressing concerns related to COVID-19 and racial unrest.