tag:www.zmetro.com,2010:/cgi-bin/mt//feed/Corwin Kronenberg 2010-09-06T23:13:29Z Movable Type 4.2-en 6 1 6 tag:www.zmetro.com,2008:/schools//6.12025 2008-12-04T14:59:38Z 2008-12-04T15:01:54Z Jim Zellmer http://www.zmetro.com Gayle Strawn emailed asking if anyone has contact information for Corwin Kronenberg Contact Gayle at gstrawn@franchisetimes.com or 612-767-3203 tag:www.zmetro.com,2008:/schools//6.11062 2008-08-04T09:33:01Z 2008-08-19T18:19:40Z Jim Zellmer http://www.zmetro.com Madison School District Safety Coordinator Luis Yudice (Luis is a retired Police Officer and a East High Grad) at a recent West High School neighborhood crime discussion (10/18/2007): "Big picture perspective: Our community really has changed a lot within the past five years. I sense a great deal of stress within the police department. Citywide issues Increasing violence involving girls. He has looked at a lot of data with the District Attorney's office. Girls are extremely angry. Angry parents are coming into the schools. Increasing issues in the neighborhood that end up in the schools. Mentioned South Transfer Point beating and that Principal Ed Holmes mediated the situation at an early stage. Growing gang violence issue particularly in the east side schools. We do have gang activity at Memorial and West but most of the issues are at Lafollete and East. Dealing with this via training and building relationships What the school are experiencing is a reflection of what is going on in the community."Madison Police Chief Noble Wray, via Bill Lueders @ Isthmus (7/30/2008): He (Wray) began by talking about perceptions of crime, and especially the notion that it's getting worse in Madison. He stressed that it wasn't just the media and public who felt this way: "If I would ask the average beat cop, I think they would say it's gotten worse." But, he added, "Worse compared to what?"The absence of local safety data spurred several SIS contributors to obtain and publish the police call data displayed below. Attorney and parent Chan Stroman provided pro bono public records assistance. Chan's work on this matter extended to the Wisconsin Attorney General's office. A few important notes on this data:13% of the records could not be geocoded and therefore are not included in the summary information. The downloadable 1996-2006 police call data .zip file is comprehensive, however.Clicking on the numbers below takes the reader to a detail page. This page includes all matching police calls and a downloadable .csv file of same. The csv file can be opened in Excel, Numbers and many data management tools.This summary is rather brief, I hope others download the data and have a look. Police Calls within .25 miles of: Madison East Area Edgewood Area LaFollette Area Memorial Area West Area 1996 1285 392 324 869 728 1997 1351 455 403 896 750 1998 1340 343 488 875 703 1999 1281 352 477 969 772 2000 1391 300 528 888 933 2001 1476 305 480 769 1034 2002 1470 363 491 886 1019 2003 1362 349 403 865 921 2004 1455 346 449 989 1012 2005 1311 325 465 994 917 2006 1221 330 389 1105 838 Weapons Incident / Offense Madison East Area Edgewood Area LaFollette Area Memorial Area West Area 1996 5 0 3 4 6 1997 5 0 3 4 0 1998 10 0 5 2 1 1999 10 0 5 4 0 2000 4 0 6 2 5 2001 3 0 3 0 0 2002 11 0 3 5 5 2003 4 1 1 4 5 2004 4 0 9 7 4 2005 9 0 6 6 2 2006 10 1 5 7 3 Drug Incident Madison East Area Edgewood Area LaFollette Area Memorial Area West Area 1996 10 0 10 9 7 1997 16 0 7 6 4 1998 12 1 8 10 6 1999 18 0 7 18 4 2000 16 2 13 17 12 2001 18 0 10 20 12 2002 22 0 14 16 12 2003 23 2 18 15 8 2004 26 0 20 17 7 2005 19 0 17 20 12 2006 24 2 11 15 8 Arrested Juvenile Madison East Area Edgewood Area LaFollette Area Memorial Area West Area 1996 59 1 35 28 38 1997 72 0 83 52 29 1998 21 0 34 17 14 1999 16 0 29 24 7 2000 42 0 76 14 15 2001 52 0 66 19 15 2002 51 0 69 13 12 2003 9 0 9 9 3 2004 8 0 8 9 4 2005 11 0 10 7 3 2006 6 0 21 11 4 Bomb Threat Madison East Area Edgewood Area LaFollette Area Memorial Area West Area 1996 1 0 0 0 1 1997 1 0 1 0 0 1998 4 2 0 0 1 1999 7 0 15 0 1 2000 4 0 17 2 1 2001 1 0 8 10 11 2002 2 0 9 0 4 2003 1 0 2 1 11 2004 6 0 4 0 6 2005 1 0 4 0 0 2006 3 0 0 0 4 Related links:1996-2006 Madison Police Calls 20MB .zip fileExternalities in the Classroom: How Children Exposed to Domestic Violence Affect Everyone's KidsParents Seek Safety Report CardsEducating the Community on Gangs in MadisonMadison School Board Discusses Discipline, Safety, Cell Phones and Code of ConductGangs & School Violence Forum: Audio / VideoMadison's public high schools feature an "open campus"The Madison School District & Corwin KronenbergIt is important to remember the event coding "assault, battery, information, etc" may vary from day to day and person to person.The last two digits of individual street numbers was removed by the Madison Police Department. Those interested in geocoding the data can substitute "99" for the "xx".I have requested an electronic copy of the 2007 data and will update this information upon receipt. tag:www.zmetro.com,2008:/schools//6.10642 2008-06-04T19:33:01Z 2008-06-04T15:58:37Z Jim Zellmer http://www.zmetro.com Liz Bowie: Communities and schools should take a preventive approach to school violence rather than focus solely on punishing students who have behavior problems, experts said yesterday at a summit on school violence. Students are looking for structure, high academic expectations, and teachers who understand and can communicate with them, said Ivan J. Juzang, a consultant who gave the keynote address at the daylong meeting at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Providing those basics will make schools safer, he said. The summit was organized by Rep. Elijah E. Cummings and State Superintendent of Schools Nancy S. Grasmick after several high-profile incidents of violence in schools this year, including the beating of a Baltimore teacher that became nationwide news after it was recorded on a student's cell phone and posted on the Internet. The summit was called to find solutions to the problems of school violence, but the conversation among participants and speakers focused more broadly on the need to intervene in the lives of troubled children as early as elementary school. The participants included legislators, teachers, school board members, community leaders, parents and students from across the state.Related: Gangs & School Violence ForumCorwin Kronenberg SIS links, Clusty SearchCell phone video of a local school fight was recently posted online. tag:www.zmetro.com,2008:/schools//6.9873 2008-03-05T14:48:12Z 2008-03-05T14:49:43Z Jim Zellmer http://www.zmetro.com Ron Lott: Imagine being a student in a school where:All the adults (teachers, bus drivers, administrators, after-school staff) work hard to develop relationships.Behavioral expectations are consistent and taught in a way that makes sense.Misbehaviors are viewed as teachable moments and responses help build responsibility.Such an experience was the goal of the summer professional development series provided last August 20-24. Through the combined funding of an Evjue mini-grant ($4730), an Aristos grant ($2500), and a grant through The Foundation for Madison Public Schools ($10,000), a six-session series with noted presenter Corwin Kronenberg (pictured) was planned for an array of different target audiences. Kronenberg, the author of the Above the Line model for supporting student behavior, had provided smaller-scale trainings during the two previous summers. tag:www.zmetro.com,2007:/schools//6.8250 2007-07-12T23:15:34Z 2008-01-10T04:10:49Z The District will be holding a parent training session with Corwin Kronenberg on Wednesday, August 22, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Hilton Garden Inn on Deming Way. Mr. Kronenberg's focus will be "A Parent's Approach to Above-the-Line-Behavior for Students." Teachers will be doing an all-day training with Mr. Kronenberg on August 20 that will focus on creating a common understanding of behavioral expectations in the classroom. Each MMSD principal was asked to work with their parent organization to send a representative team of five parents to the event. It is not clear if this happened at each school or if the program has reached capacity. If you did not hear about this event before the school year... tag:www.zmetro.com,2006:/schools//6.5433 2006-05-25T01:21:52Z 2008-01-09T10:03:57Z One of those cryptic messages in the current MMSD budget document says: One of the major challenges for the 2006-07 school year is implementing a change in the philosophy and approach to creating positive student behavior. We are moving from a punitive system of student behavior management to a distict wide positive approach to changing student behavior thorugh education, dialogue and resotrative justice. In plain language, the district will implement a variation of a program created by Corwin Kronenberg. The program won't be the complete version of Kronenberg's plan because he and the district had a falling out, similar to the parting of ways between the MMSD and Glen Singleton with his "courageous conversations" on race. Kronenberg doesn't seem to...