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Two percent of principals were not sure about the impact of BTAM on school safety

Sample (N = 1406) · Teams answering effectiveness at maintaining safety

Two percent of principals were not sure about the impact of BTAM on school safety.

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Positive safety perceptions held across school characteristics, from large urban to small rural

Principals’ positive perceptions about their BTAM programs’ contributions to maintaining a safe school environment held across various school characteristics.

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District-only or small-team principals slightly lower, but eight in ten still said BTAM effective

Principals who only had a district-level team or whose school only had a small BTAM team had slightly lower perceptions of those teams’ effectiveness.

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Roughly 90 percent of principals saw BTAM as effective at safety regardless of school crime level

Sample (n = undeterminable of 1406) · Teams answering effectiveness at maintaining safety

Said another way, regardless of the crime level in their school, roughly 90 percent of principals felt that their BTAM team was effective at maintaining school safety.

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Most principals believe BTAM raised student and staff safety feelings, by an intermediate amount

Most principals believe that their school’s BTAM program positively affected both student and staff feelings of safety (see Figure 12.2).

• Effect Student Staff Safety Feelings

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66 percent: BTAM increased students' safety feelings (7 percent significantly); staff 70 percent (8)

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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Figure 12.2 Student: sig. decreased 3, decreased 8, no impact 24, increased 58, sig. increased 7

Sample (N = 1377) · Teams answering program impact questions

Student | 3 | 8 | 24 | 58 | 7

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Figure 12.2 Staff: sig. decreased 3, decreased 7, no impact 20, increased 62, sig. increased 8

Sample (N = 1377) · Teams answering program impact questions

Staff (administrators, teachers, etc.) | 3 | 7 | 20 | 62 | 8

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Figure 12.2 survey question: impact of BTAM program on outcomes at school (n = 1,377)

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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• Survey Methodology

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Figure 12.2 includes only principals whose school has a school- or district-level BTAM team

Includes only those who said their school has a school- or district-level BTAM team.

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• Survey Methodology

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Principals in all school settings, large urban or small rural, believe BTAM helps keep school safe

That is, principals in all types of school settings—whether in a large, urban school or a small, rural school—said they believe that their BTAM program effectively helps keep their school safe.

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Eight in ten district-only or small-team principals said BTAM program was effective

Sample (N = 1406 total; column N not printed) · Teams answering effectiveness at maintaining safety

Nevertheless, eight in ten of those principals said they believe that their BTAM program was effective.

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• Subgroup Differences

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Principals' positive views of BTAM effectiveness did not depend on school crime level

Furthermore, principals’ positive feelings about the effectiveness of the BTAM team also did not depend on the level of crime in the school.

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Principals in higher violent-crime schools as likely as those with few or no violent crimes to see B

That is, principals in schools that reported having higher levels of violent crime were just as likely as their counterparts in schools that reported that they had no or only a few violent crimes to feel that their BTAM team was effective in maintaining school safety.

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Survey also asked whether BTAM program affected student and staff feelings of safety at school

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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Principals viewed BTAM effect on safety feelings as intermediate: increased, but not significantly

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.

• Effect Student Staff Safety Feelings
• Perceived Effects

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