Increasing School Safety Through Transdisciplinary Research and Advocacy
Location
PARB 127 (First Floor)
Proposal Track
Research Project
Session Format
Presentation
Abstract
As incidents of school violence have hit the news media, school safety is of increasing interest to scholars and practitioners. Unfortunately, schools are ill-equipped to prevent violence and intervene when it occurs. This presentation will discuss how research can inform school readiness and public policy to prevent and intervene in violence. Researchers will present previous quantitative research studies’ findings on evaluating and reporting the current perceptions of the preparedness of educators for numerous crisis areas that impact K-12 students including neglect, abuse, suicidal ideation, homicidal ideation, unexpected death of a student, unexpected death of a teacher, terrorist threats, and natural disasters. Findings suggest a need for further training in and planning for crisis management for online educators. Future research intends to gather data on a larger scope from online and brick-and-mortar education professionals across the nation while evaluating additional areas of crisis, including but not limited to gun violence, sexual assault, and cyberbullying.
Keywords
K-12 online learning, school crisis, educator preparedness
Professional Bio
Mary Jo Carney, B.A. is a first-year master's student in the Experimental Psychology program at Georgia Southern University. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at Ave Maria University. Mary Jo is a research assistant with a focus on conference development and implementation and scholarly interdisciplinary research for the NYAR Research Center. Katherine Fallon, M.S. is a fourth-year doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology program at Georgia Southern University. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at the University of Alabama and her Master of Science in Clinical Psychology at Georgia Southern University. Katherine is a research assistant with a focus on scholarly practitioner research for the NYAR Research Center. She formerly served as a research assistant and graduate assistant for the College of Education in the Department of Leadership, Technology, and Human Development at Georgia Southern University. Her research interests include developing a comprehensive assessment of parental perceptions of risk factors for adolescent behavioral aggression. Dr. Juliann Sergi McBrayer is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and is a Co-Director of the NYAR Research Center centered around scholarly practitioner and interdisciplinary research via community partnerships. As a scholarly practitioner, her research interests include the development, implementation, assessment, and impact of educational leadership programs with a focus on purposeful, collaborative, and sustainable professional learning and programming to ensure effectiveness and accountability while emphasizing P-20 community partnerships. Dr. Chad Posick is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Georgia Southern University and Co-Director of the NYAR Research Center. He teaches in the areas of victimology, public policy, statistics, and quantitative research methods. He has published over 40 peer-reviewed publications and five books on issues concerning violence, crime, and research methods. He was awarded the New Scholar Award from the Victimology Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and the Faculty Researcher of the Year Award from the Victimology Division of the American Society of Criminology. He was the principal investigator for the Savannah-Chatham Innovative Prosecution Solutions project which began in 2015. He has led funded research projects and is an expert on mixed methods research and data analysis using several software programs.
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Recommended Citation
Carney, Mary Jo; Fallon, Katherine; McBrayer, Juliann Sergi; and Posick, Chad, "Increasing School Safety Through Transdisciplinary Research and Advocacy" (2022). Georgia Educational Research Association Conference. 21.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gera/2022/2022/21
Increasing School Safety Through Transdisciplinary Research and Advocacy
PARB 127 (First Floor)
As incidents of school violence have hit the news media, school safety is of increasing interest to scholars and practitioners. Unfortunately, schools are ill-equipped to prevent violence and intervene when it occurs. This presentation will discuss how research can inform school readiness and public policy to prevent and intervene in violence. Researchers will present previous quantitative research studies’ findings on evaluating and reporting the current perceptions of the preparedness of educators for numerous crisis areas that impact K-12 students including neglect, abuse, suicidal ideation, homicidal ideation, unexpected death of a student, unexpected death of a teacher, terrorist threats, and natural disasters. Findings suggest a need for further training in and planning for crisis management for online educators. Future research intends to gather data on a larger scope from online and brick-and-mortar education professionals across the nation while evaluating additional areas of crisis, including but not limited to gun violence, sexual assault, and cyberbullying.
