The Educator's School Safety Network is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, providing evidence-based school safety training, resources, and technical assistance to teacher preparation programs as well as in the field teachers and school leaders.
The work of the Educator’s School Safety Network is unique for three important reasons:
1. Most school safety training focuses on crisis response after violence has occurred with a particular emphasis on an active shooter event. The reality of school safety in America is not the horrific, but statistically rare school shooting event so heavily covered in the media. Instead, educators are faced almost daily with a wide variety of threats and violence from medical emergencies, to severe weather events, to violent attacks by students.
The Educator’s School Safety Network incorporates the duality of building skills, capabilities and capacity in both preservice and in-service educators. We have trained tens of thousands of teachers and administrators currently working in schools. With more than 15 years of experience in higher education focusing on educator preparation, we have incorporated crisis response and violence prevention into the pre-service requirements of teacher and leadership candidates.
2. Unlike most school safety organizations, we come from an educational, not law-enforcement, perspective. The centerpiece of the Educator’s School Safety Network are co-founders and nationally recognized experts in school safety, Dr. Amy Klinger, Director of Programs, and her daughter, Amanda Klinger, Esquire, Director of Operations.
3. Most school safety companies and trainers are for-profit entities that sell a pre-packaged training program or product targeted solely at K-12 school districts. As a non-profit, we are responsive to the unique needs of the universities and school districts that we serve, so our training, resources and technical assistance are designed to meet the most pressing needs of pre-service and in the field educators.