Other speakers include Mark Greenberg, director of the Prevention Research Center for the Promotion of Human Development at Penn State University, who since 1990 has served as an investigator in Fast Track, a program aimed at prevention violence and delinquency in families. Also speaking will be Arnold Goldstein, director of the Center for Research on Aggression at Syracuse University who serves as a violence consultant to the State of New York. Kate Stetzner, superintendent of Butte, Mont., School District No.1, will also speak. For many children, schools are the safest places in their lives.
Schools are the source of positive connections and academic and social growth.
This conference will examine different aspects of school violence with an emphasis on prevention. This forum will provide educators and other community members and professionals with the tools they need to increase the safety in our schools.