The
Kentucky School
Educators Endorsement is designed to
prepare certified P-12 educators and school
administrators to promote and maintain a
positive, safe, and healthy school culture,
climate and environment which is conducive
to high academic achievement. School safety
continues to be an issue of paramount
importance. ADM 677
Crisis Management in Educational Settings
is
for Murray State University, the cornerstone
course of the Kentucky School Educators
Endorsement.
A
Pre-Principal Cohart group at Bellermine
University discuss emergency management and
the Safe School Endorsement.
Karen McCuiston, (Center) post secondary
director of KCSS,
guides the discussion.
Twenty years
ago, the school year of 1997-98 proved to
communities across the country from Oregon
to Kentucky that violence at school can
cause loss of students’ lives and it can
happen anywhere and at anytime. The
Department of Education and Justice reports that
regarding non-fatal crimes, students
reported being
victims of 628,200 crimes while they
were in school in the year 2006-07.
For
students to fulfill their academic potential
in school, schools must be safe and secure
places for all students, teachers, and staff
members. For school climate to be conducive
to high academic performance the educational
leaders need to be prepared to handle any
crisis which may arise.
Murray
State University in cooperation with the
Kentucky Center for School Safety
offers a twelve-hour School Safety
Educator Endorsement this program started in the Fall of
2004.
For more
information, please contact:
Karen McCuiston Post Secondary Component Director Kentucky Center for School
Safety
College of Education
Murray State University
1009 Alexander Hall
Murray, KY 42071-3340
Phone: (270) 809-5091
Fax: (270) 809-5090
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