Eastern Kentucky University

Eastern Kentucky University Educational Leadership

SSE 870 - Principles of School Safety Syllabus CRN XXXX 3 Credit hours Fall XXXX

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Course Description:

This course is designed as an introductory course covering school safety for educators of all levels, education administrators, and risk managers. The course will approach safety from the aspect of managing loss potentials for educational service employees, students, and school visitors. The course progresses from defining school safety and exploring the concept of safety as a leadership principle to a descriptive project of school safety by occupational classifications and culminating by exploring foundational management techniques for school safety and their application in some common safety issues.

Prerequisite knowledge: There are no course prerequisites for this course.

Textbooks:

Dunlap, E.Scott. (Ed). (2012). The Comprehensive Handbook of School Safety. CRC Press. ISBN# 9781439874073

Supplemental Text

29 CFR 1910 Regulations for General Industry * May be purchased from the EKU bookstore, or other source and also may be accessed via Supplemental readings as handed out per the instructor or accessed in the course documents section.

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Define school safety. ISLLC 1 2. Describe safety as a principal of leadership ISLLC 1, TSSA 1 3. Describe OSHA activity concerning public schools ISLLC 6, TSSA 6 4. Perform a Job Task Analysis ISLLC 3, TSSA 4 5. Explain the theory of worker's compensation ISLLC 1 6. Recommend management practices for common worker's compensation dilemmas ISLLC 3 TSSA

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7. Identify the common hazards for educational service employee classifications ISLLC 3 TSSA 4 8. Perform an assessment for Slips, Trips, and Falls ISLLC 3 TSSA 4 9. Recognize electrical safety issues in a school setting ISLLC 3, 5 TSSA 4, 5 10. Create a training presentation on basic electrical safety in a school ISLLC 3, 5 TSSA 4, 5 11. Develop management practices for student safety and security ISLLC 5, TSSA 4 12. Identify common student safety issues with playgrounds ISLLC 5 TSSA 5 13. Recommend playground safety management techniques ISLLC 5 TSSA 5 14. Identify the OSHA required elements of an emergency action plan ISLLC 6, TSSA 6 15. Identify Kentucky Revised Statues for school safety and security planning ISLLC 6, TSSA 6 16. Identify common elements of a school assessment ISLLC 3, 4 TSSA 4, 5 17. Identify the functions of the Center for School Safety ISLLC 3, 4 TSSA 4, 5 18. Identify common issues with the safety of school visitors ISLLC 3 TSSA 4 19. Determine countermeasures for hazards to school visitors ISLLC 3 TSSA 4

Evaluation Methods:

Completion of all Blackboard Discussion Questions 160

Completion of Weekly Assignments

310

Completion of 2 Projects

500

Total Points

970

Grading Scale

A = 100-90% B = 89-80% C = 79-70% D = 69-60%

Anticipated Instructor Response Times

E-Mail or Virtual Office Communications: It is anticipated that the instructor will respond to all email and/or virtual office correspondence within 48 hours during the school week (M-F). The instructor reserves the right for a longer response time if the email is sent late on Friday afternoon, on a holiday break, or over the weekend.

Grading/Feedback: It is anticipated that timely feedback will be given during this course. While the subject matter and complexity of the assignments will dictate the response time for grading and feedback, it is anticipated that the instructor will provide feedback and scores from one to two weeks following the submission of the assignment.

Student Progress:

Students will be assessed on a continuous basis and will be informed of their progress at least once prior to midterm through the use of either Blackboard.

Assignments will be graded within the two-week period between modules. If you have questions about this course or the resources provided, link to Discussion Board on the main menu, select Virtual Office, and post the questions on that forum. The instructor should respond within 48 hours, Monday through Friday. E-mail the instructor only with questions that are confidential in nature, such as those related to grades.

Attendance Policy:

Regular attendance is expected in each class of this course. Students are responsible for making up any missed assignments when they must be absent. Instructor approval is necessary to make up missed tests or to extend an assignment deadline. The instructor reserves the right to adjust the grade of or refuse to accept late assignments.

Absences (or nonparticipation) equating 20% of class meetings will result in automatic failure. Failure to participate in the online class discussions within the required time limits posted in the class schedule constitutes a class absence. Class sessions missed as a result of late entry will be counted as absences. It is recognized that there are legitimate reasons for being absent. The student is responsible for presenting adequate reason for absence to the instructor in order to be given opportunity to make up missed work. (Adequate reasons include personal illness, death or serious illness in the immediate family, or participation in an approved university activity.) Except in emergency, the candidate is encouraged to contact the teacher prior to the anticipated absence.

Non-Participation Policy

Please be advised that instructors have the right to drop students from any course due to non- participation. For information read the university's Use It or Lose It policy

Withdraw Policy

Student withdrawing after the fifth week of class will be assessed a $50.00 per credit hour fee for late withdraw. For information on the full withdraw policy, please visit EKU Withdrawal Information

Disability Accommodation

The University strives to make all learning experiences as accessible as possible. If you are registered with the EKU Center for Student Accessibility (CSA), please request your accommodation letter from the CSA. CSA will transmit your letter to the course instructor(s). It is recommended that you discuss the accommodations needed with your instructor(s).

If you believe you need an accommodation and are not registered with the CSA, please contact CSA in 361 Whitlock Building by email at accessibility@eku.edu or by telephone at (859) 622- 2933.

A student with a "disability" may be an individual with a physical or psychological impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, to include, but not limited to: seeing, hearing, communicating, interacting with others, learning, thinking, concentrating, sitting, standing, lifting, performing manual tasks and working.

Additionally, pregnancy accompanied by a medical condition(s), which causes a similar substantial limitation, may also be considered under the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act (ADAAA).

Upon individual request, this syllabus can be made available in an alternative format.

Discrimination, harassment, or violence will not be tolerated at EKU.

EKU is committed to a respectful and inclusive environment and thus prohibits discrimination, harassment, or violence of any kind. It also requires faculty members to report any information that may indicate that discrimination, harassment, or violence has affected any member of the University community. If you share information that indicates that you have witnessed or experienced such behavior, that information will have to be provided to University officials; consider this in choosing what information you post. If you would like to obtain confidential help from someone who does not have to report the information, please go to for resources.

Academic Integrity:

Students are advised that EKU's Academic Integrity Policy will be strictly enforced in this course. The Academic Integrity policy is available at . Questions regarding the policy may be directed to the Office of Academic Integrity.

Official Email:

An official EKU email is established for each registered student, faculty, and staff member. All university communications sent via email will be sent to this EKU email address.

Course Requirements:

Students should complete all readings, videos, and graded/ungraded assignments throughout the term. Each module in the Blackboard course site provides information on what is expected for each week.

All course requirements must be completed in Standard English and submitted on time. Work submitted after the deadline will receive a 10% penalty if submitted within 24 hours of the due date or a 20% penalty if submitted within one week of due date. Assignments will not be accepted after one week from the submission deadline has passed. Exception: No work will be

accepted after the last day of class. Plagiarized work (that copied from another source or another student) will receive a failing grade.

Eastern Kentucky University has officially established expectations for class preparation, and these expectations are available in the EKU Student Handbook. SSE 870 adheres to this policy.

Anticipated Instructor Response Times

E-Mail or Virtual Office Communications: It is anticipated that the instructor will respond to all email and/or virtual office correspondence within 48 hours during the school week (M-F). The instructor reserves the right for a longer response time if the email is sent late on Friday afternoon, on a holiday break, or over the weekend.

Grading/Feedback: It is anticipated that timely feedback will be given during this course. While the subject matter and complexity of the assignments will dictate the response time for grading and feedback, it is anticipated that the instructor will provide feedback and scores from one to two weeks following the submission of the assignment.

Course Structure

This course is structured like others in the online program. It's organized into 8 weekly lessons. Each lesson contains a list of objectives and a list of specific tasks. Using the instructional materials in each lesson and completing the tasks ensures that you are able to meet the objectives. The tasks for each lesson include reading assignments, discussion board posts, and written assignments.

Minimum Technical Skills Expected from Students

Students are expected to be able to use BlackBoard proficiently to access course content. Basic computer skills and knowledge of common software (browsers, word processing, etc.) are required. For assistance with these, please contact the EKU help desk at 859-622-3000.

You must be able to access and use the Blackboard course site as well as your EKU student e-mail account during this course.

You must have access to a high-speed Internet connection. You must have access to, and have basic skills in using, Microsoft Office, version

2007 or higher. If you do not have access to Microsoft Office, you may get Office 365 Pro Plus for free through your official EKU myMail account! You must have access to a PDF reader, such the free Adobe Reader. You must have operable computer speakers, as such media as YouTube videos and lecture videos may be used in this course.

EKU Student Tutoring / Consultation Services

As an online student at EKU, you have access to three completely free tutoring / consultation services: Online Consultations from the Noel Studio, EKU Gurus, and SmartThinking.

1. EKU Gurus are carefully selected upperclass students who offer homework assistance in more than 25 different subjects. If you are on the EKU main campus, you may visit the Gurus in the Student Success Center. If you are off campus, they are accessible via a number of options: 1. EKU Student Success Center (Gurus) website 2. Connect via phone: 859-622-7861 3. Connect via Twitter: EKUGURUS

2. EKU's Noel Studio for Academic Creativity provides online consultations in which a trained online consultant will work with you or your small group on any piece of communication, at any stage in the process, from brainstorming to finished product. You can connect with Noel Studio in various ways: 1. Noel Studio website 2. Online Consultations page 3. Online scheduling and consultation system 4. Noel Studio Hours 5. Send E-mail to Noel Studio Online Consultations 6. Noel Studio phone number: 859-622-7330

3. Smarthinking is a third-party tutoring service to which EKU Online subscribes. If you are an e-Campus student, you have access to this online service. 1. Access Smarthinking tutors directly by selecting "Smarthinking" on the main menu of this course site. 2. View videos on how to use Smarthinking on the Smarthinking Student Resources website.

4. Other EKU tutorial and academic support services are available on the EKU Tutoring Services website.

Technical Support

It is expected of students to have an adequate working knowledge of Blackboard and personal computer. If you encounter any Blackboard related technical problems, please contact Mike Johnson at Mike.Johnson@eku.edu

For all other technical problems such as retrieving forgotten password or email access, please contact campus IT support at 859-622-3000. Campus tech support hours and additional information can be accessed via the Help tab at the top of every page in BlackBoard.

Additional Support Options

1. EKU's Information Technology department provides support services in a number of ways: 1. EKU's Information Technology Website

2. EKU's Information Technology Student Support Webpage 3. EKU's Information Technology on Twitter 4. EKU's Information Technology Service Desk on Facebook 5. EKU's Blackboard Student Quick Start Guide 2. Blackboard provides an entire playlist of tutorial videos for students.

Virtual Office

The virtual office is a place where you can post questions about the course that may be of interest to other students. I will answer these questions as promptly as possible. Also, be aware that our Instructional Designer and technical expert, Mike Johnson, will be monitoring the virtual office for any technical problems that students may have. In the case of technical problems that appear to be specific to you, email Mike at Mike.Johnson@eku.edu

Course Outline:

This is an approximate schedule of the lessons to be covered. This may change due to class schedule changes.

Week

Week 1 - What is school safety?

Topics

Readings

Assignments

Defining safety in

Chapters 34 and Citation summary

schools.

35

W1A1 (due in Module

Frank Bird

3)

Employees

- Introduction:

Discussion board

Students

landmarks in the

School visitors

History of Safety All Other assignments are due

Safety as a moral Video lecture Sunday at midnight of this

principal of

module.

leadership.

Historical overview of safety policy Week 2 - Injuries under common Introduction law to Worker's Defenses under Compensatio common law n Theory Meeting Compensability

Causal Connection

Time, Place, Manner

Chapter 31

Workers' Comp

Workers' Comp

assignment W2A1

article

Discussion board

Risk Management

Scenarios

All assignments due on

Video lecture Sunday at midnight of this

Module

Types of Risk

Week 3 - The current situation

Educational with educational service

Service

employee safety in

Employee Kentucky.

Safety

Injuries by job

class

Expenditure by

Week 4 ?

injury types

Electrical

safety issues Foundations of safety in school planning

settings

Job Hazard

Recognition

Week 5 ? First aid response programs

Training/Educati on

Permitting Auditing

Week 6 - Student Safety

General safety topics by educational service worker job classifications Playground safety

ASTM standards

Emergency response planning

Plan sections under CFR 1910

Chapters 18 and Hazards or exposures

29

assignment W3A1

Educational

(due in Module 3)

Employee

Discussion board

Injuries PowerPoi

nt

Project 1 STF ? Due in

Video lecture Module 5

Video lecture

PowerPoint presentati on W4A1

Discussion board

All assignments due on

Sunday at midnight of this

Module

Chapters 23 and Project 1

24

Discussion board

Video Lecture All assignments due on

Sunday at midnight of this

Module

Chapter 19

Discussion board

"Play for the

Project 2 ? Due in

Right Reasons" by

Module 8

Paul Jacobs.

Playground

All assignments due on

Safety PowerPoin Sunday at midnight of this

t.

Module

Week 7- Foundations of

Introduction Emergency Response

to

Planning

emergency Introduction to the

response and Center for School Safety

school

Introduction to School

assessments Assessment

Week 8 - Legal review of cases

General Auditing school grounds

liability to

Chapter 1, 2, and 8

Video Lecture

KRS Familiarization exercise W7A1

Discussion board

All assignments due on Sunday at midnight of this Module

"Student Injuries Project 2 at School: Who Is Discussion board

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