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Lessons from the Front Lines of School Violence: Professor Shares Expertise at Emporia State University
Scott Poland, Ed.D., professor at the College of Psychology, met with Ken Weaver, Ph.D., professor and dean of The Teachers College at Emporia State University. Poland was the invited speaker at the Annual Teachers College Lecture.
Scott Poland, Ed.D., professor at NSU’s College of Psychology and a recognized expert on school crisis, met with 250 educators and community members at Emporia State University where he discussed “Lessons from the Front Lines of School Violence: Educators and the Community Make a Difference.”
Poland was the invited speaker at the Annual Teachers College Lecture at the university located in Emporia, Kansas.
“Emporia State has an outstanding teacher education program, and the university is the site of the National Fallen Educators Memorial,” Poland said, referring to the campus’s granite monument inscribed with the names of teachers who have lost their lives to school-related violence. The monument was developed after six educators were murdered at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012, and an Alabama teacher was killed in January 2013.
Scott Poland, Ed.D., professor at the College of Psychology, visited the Fallen Educators Memorial at Emporia State University, where he was a guest speaker.
Poland has led national crisis teams following such shootings.
Poland, a licensed psychologist and nationally certified school psychologist, is co-director of NSU’s Suicide and Violence Prevention Office. He has lectured and written extensively on suicide intervention, school crisis, youth violence, and related topics. His first book, Suicide in the Schools (Guilford, 1989), is considered a pioneer work. He recently co-authored Suicide in Schools (Routledge, 2015). He has appeared on television network news programs and presented more than 1,000 workshops worldwide.
He is the past president of the National Association of School Psychologists and a past prevention director of the American Association of Suicidology. He served as the director of psychological services (1982–2005) at a large Texas school district that received numerous state and national awards for its exemplary psychological services.