The Consortium To Prevent School Violence (CPSV) is committed to reducing school violence nationally.
CPSV is focused on advocacy that promotes effective implementation of positive school violence prevention practices, and fostering technical assistance, information dissemination, and professional development based on high-quality scientific research. CPSV promotes open access where researchers, practitioners, and other stakeholders in schools and surrounding communities are an integral part of the Consortium’s work.
The Consortium is primarily a volunteer effort.
CPSV Launches Fact Sheet Series
The Consortium to Prevent School Violence will produce a series of 35 to 40 two-page fact sheets, with about 20 fact sheets currently under development.
These streamlined fact sheets, which are specifically designed to place useful information into the hands of practitioners and other stakeholders nationwide, represent a new and exciting approach to bridging the research-to-practice gap. State and local education departments are encouraged to distribute these fact sheets to school-related personnel and other local stakeholders.
A schedule of forthcoming fact sheets and the first four fact sheets in the series may be downloaded here:
Fact Sheet 1: Overview of School Violence Prevention
Fact Sheet 2: Bullying Prevention
Fact Sheet 3: Zero Tolerance Policies in Schools
Fact Sheet 4: Anger Management in Schools
The Consortium has transitioned from its initial founding membership program to an ongoing membership structure. The Consortium Board of Directors is sensitive to the demands for resources that constituents face and, as such, has developed a modest fee structure which will continue to support the work of the Consortium.
The Consortium offers three types of membership:
- Professional ($50/year)
- Student ($25/year)
- Retiree ($25/year)
New Resource:
A Video Vignette-Based Tutorial
This video-based tutorial addresses the intersection of basic teaching practices and students' disruptive and explosive behaviors. It addresses two lines of research:
- basic, essential teaching practices
- students' cognitive schema and scripts as they relate to disruptive and aggressive behavior.
The embedded video vignettes, filmed at the Centennial School of Lehigh University, are paired, with a problematic and a proactive version of each situation. The tutorial includes sheets for viewers to use to rate teacher behaviors in the videos relative to seven target areas of teaching practice discussed in the earlier sections of the tutorial.
This version of the tutorial is meant to be used by any professional, parent, or other stakeholder interested in this topic.
Professional educators may request access to the full stand-alone PowerPoint and video files here.
A presenter’s version of the PowerPoint will be made available in the coming months, with briefer slide text, and speaker notes for the presenter. That version will be designed for use in school and allied agency in-service and workshop training sessions by a variety of training personnel. In the meantime, school and allied agency personnel are encouraged to adapt these slides and the accompanying videos to meet their specific training needs.
This tutorial and the accompanying videos may be freely used for training purposes by non-commercial organizations engaged in preparing teachers, other school staff, and allied professional personnel for meeting the needs of at-risk youth. Commercial use and/or sale is prohibited.