In this webinar, Dr. Dewey Cornell, Professor of Education at the University of Virginia, will share ineffective responses to school violence, how to conduct a threat assessment as well as key steps in implementing threat assessment at your school. Dr. Dewey G. Cornell trained originally as a clinical psychologist to work with children and adolescents. In 1986 he joined the faculty of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, where he initiated the Virginia Youth Violence Project to develop and disseminate programs for preventing youth violence and creating safer and more effective schools. Over the past 30+ years, he has authored more than 200 publications in psychology and education, initiated statewide school climate surveys in Virginia, and developed the Virginia Student Threat Assessment Guidelines. He has trained thousands of school-based threat assessment teams in the U.S. and Canada.