Can We Ensure Safe Schools?

Fern Aefsky has over 35 years experience in k-12 schools as an administrator and teacher, and multiple years as an associate professor of educational leadership at the university level. Her areas of specialization are in collaborations with community stakeholders to improve student outcomes through the lenses of practitioners’ realities.

Forward
Edward Escobar
Chapter 1 School Safety Needs
Fern Aefsky
Chapter 2 Securing Our Schools
Karin May & Robert Diemer
Chapter 3 Addressing School Violence Through Interdisciplinary Systems Change
Susan Kinsella & Nancy Wood
Chapter 4 Practitioner’s View of School Safety: A Walk in My Shoes
Toni Zetzsche, Fern Aefsky & Jodi Lamb
Chapter 5 Mental Health Considerations and Options for Schools
Courtney Wiest & Cindy Lee
Chapter 6 How Can We Develop an Infrastructure of Safe Schools?
Veronika Ospina-Kammerer
Chapter 7 Animal Support Therapies
Rhondda Waddell & Debra Mims
Chapter 8 School Safety Policies, Politics and Advocacy
Fern Aefsky
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