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 preventing 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. Stetzner is the only public school official to serve on the president's National Task Force for School Violence. For many children, however, schools are the safest places in their lives.
Schools are the source of positive connections and academic and social growth.
Bullying, teasing, harassment and physical confrontations have become part of our social landscape. So it's not unusual to see these problems in our schools. This forum will provide educators and other community members and professionals with the tools they need to increase the safety of our schools.