15 claims on pp. 95–136 (fact 10, statement 1, conjecture 2, definition 2).
Most principals believe that their school’s BTAM program positively affected both student and staff feelings of safety (see Figure 12.2).
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Sample (N = 1377) · Teams answering program impact questions
More specifically, 66 percent of principals reported that their BTAM program increased students’ feelings of safety (including 7 percent who said BTAM significantly increased feelings of safety), and 70 percent believe that BTAM is increasing staff feelings of safety (including 8 percent who said they believe that BTAM is significantly increasing perceptions of safety).
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Sample (N = 1377) · Teams answering program impact questions
Student | 3 | 8 | 24 | 58 | 7
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Sample (N = 1377) · Teams answering program impact questions
Staff (administrators, teachers, etc.) | 3 | 7 | 20 | 62 | 8
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This figure depicts response data from the following survey question: “What impact do you think your BTAM program has had on the following outcomes at your school?” (n = 1,377).
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Includes only those who said their school has a school- or district-level BTAM team.
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We also asked principals whether they believe that their BTAM program affected student and staff perceptions of feeling safe at school.
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However, principals tended to view this relationship as intermediate in size—that is, principals felt that their BTAM program increased, but not significantly, feelings of safety.
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The fact that principals perceive a positive (though perhaps intermediate) relationship between BTAM and feelings of safety at school could suggest that schools are already relatively safe spaces, in part, because extreme violent incidents remain rare.
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Positive relationships could also be attributable to other factors, such as differing perceptions of safety between principals and students, between principals and staff, or between stakeholder groups.
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At worst, principals in our survey perceived that BTAM was neutral (i.e., did not have an impact on student or staff feelings of safety); few reported that the BTAM program was having negative impacts on these perceptions.
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Interestingly, principals’ perceptions of the positive impact that their BTAM program was having on student and staff feelings of safety at school were unrelated to the crime level in the school.
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That is, principals in schools who reported higher numbers of violent incidents were just as likely as those in schools with few to no violent incidents to perceive that their BTAM team had an intermediately sized, though positive, impact on feelings of safety.
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Sample (N = 1377) · Appendix A table base (respondents answering the table question; see note for tables)
Student feelings of safety at school | 2.6 | 7.5 | 24.2 | 58.4 | 7.3
Sample (N = 1377) · Appendix A table base (respondents answering the table question; see note for tables)
Staff (administrators, teachers, etc.) feelings of safety school | 2.8 | 7.3 | 20.2 | 62.0 | 7.8
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