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1. US/World History in Context

2. eLibrary

3. UMI/Proquest

 

Assignment

ILLINOIS INVENT 2 PREVENT

School Safety Project

Essential Question: How can we make Evanston Township High School and the surrounding community a safe learning environment for students, adults, parents and administrators? 

 

"Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear. Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets." - Nelson Mandela

 

Background: School shootings—terrifying to students, educators, parents, and communities—always reignite polarizing debates about gun rights and school safety. To bring context to these debates, Education Week journalists began tracking shootings on K-12 school property that resulted in firearm-related injuries or deaths.

 

In 2025, we continue this heartbreaking, but important work. More information about this tracker and our methodology is below.

There have been 14 school shootings this year that resulted in injuries or deaths. There have been 158 such shootings since 2018. There were 51 school shootings with injuries or deaths last year, the most in a single year since Education Week began tracking such incidents in 2018. There were 35 in 2021, 10 in 2020, and 24 each in 2019 and 2018.

 

Current Events on recent school shootings- Madison, Wisconsin, Denver, Colorado and Arlington , Texas and Nashville, Tennessee.

What have we learned about past school shootings and violence? 

 

History of Security at ETHS

Students need to look at the history of safety at Evanston High School. The role of security over the past 50 years. How EPD has interacted with Evanston Township

Student- Perspectives and Perceptions of safety (Results from School Wide Surveys)

Asset Mapping (Determining Students Strength and Voice in this arena)

Safety Challenges created by Technology & Social Media

The Role of Mental Health (Public Health Response)

The Impact of Community Violence

 

WHY?

Why are we asking for a student voice in this? Why is it important that students are key stakeholders in the process of school safety?


 

Different Perspectives:

Look at other models used by other school systems that have been successful. How can we adopt this to make it relevant to Evanston High School?

Peer Conference (formerly Jury)

Conflict Resolution

Restorative Justice

Emerge and SOAR

 

Vision: To create an action plan to address how to develop and manage a functioning student centered safety committee/club.This committee will specifically be focused on the Evanston High School Community and addressing targeted violence.

 

The committee checklist should include the following items

  • Branding your organization- You should be coming up with a name for the organization, possibly a logo. Make sure you incorporate Evanston High School into the branding.
  • Vision Statement: Where we are going in regards to the destination
  • Mission Statement: Is how we are going to get there.
  • Creating a set of actionable goals ( these will be changing with times)
  • Developing a structure of roles and responsibilities
  • Meeting options
  • Key stakeholders
  • Expectations
  • Sustainability- This should stand the test of time and be flexible enough to change 
  • A product, tool or initiative to combat targeted violence.
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FINAL PRODUCT:

 

Each student group will present their action plan to their classmates and the top two groups will move on to the next round where they will present their presentation to the Assistant Superintendent, Head of Safety, School Resource Officer and other administrators to be voted on for implementation. The winning group will receive potentially a monetary reward from Invent 2 Prevent. The winning model will ultimately be used to establish a school-wide safety committee.


 

Step 1: Watch the Kick-Off Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_9oZHFhA3pgPdN70g86Gjia6TPKZo61F/view?usp=drive_link

 

Step 2: Access your portal: https://illinois-i2phs.on-evp.com/login

Student password: Wildkit3467 (This password is case sensitive. Please type it in and do not copy & paste.) 

 

Step 3: Read the Project Brief This is located on your portal under “Step 1.”

 

Step 4: Start your research. Begin researching your topic and chosen target audience focusing on risk and protective factors (information on this in the project brief). 

 

Please use your Program Manager, Jordan, as a resource. She is here to help you be successful in creating your product, tool, or initiative for your project! Feel free to schedule a check-in call with her, email your brainstorm thoughts about topics and tactics, etc.