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Jen Classen

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Learning sciences PhD candidate at Penn State. Studying learning in school safety and emergency management. Posts are my own.

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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Share with me: When does a school safety practice come to life?
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Happy to announce my first publication from my dissertation research. In this special issue in Leading & Managing, I examined how school safety leaders used different types of imagination to bring school safety practices to life. #schoolsafety #edleader journals.flvc.org/leading-and-...
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Vol. 31 No. 1 (2025): Leading & Managing | Leading & Managing
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Thank you!
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
@vea.bsky.social, could never have gotten here without you! It takes compassionate, thoughtful people to help us do the hard things in life.
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Excited for my recent co-written, open-access teaching case article on hoax school shootings! #schoolsafety Let's discuss: What's a lesser-known, everyday school emergency that educators and leaders respond to? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Do I make the joke about it being a constantly evolving conversation about the efficacy of school safety tech?
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
To be clear, I’m not catastrophizing. Schools, districts, and states need to look at where they’re receiving #schoolsafety monies. DOJ for SROs? Ed dept for mental health? SAMHSA? What’s your backup? Community partnerships? Wrap-around services? substack.com/home/post/p-...
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School shooting data trends with 4 weeks of classes left in 2024
Less than 2% chance of the 2024 total exceeding the record of 349 incidents last year. This is the first downward trend since 2015.
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Penn State classes begin 1/13.
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Good question and I’m no expert on trends. I suspect that if the EAS tone was a trend, it was on social media, and therefore not a flagging under the FCC. But if people used it in artistic pieces and a news segment on tv or radio was about it, they would not have been able to air the full piece.
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Best #UCEA presentation quote: COVID was bad (lots of citations). Here’s our framework…
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UCEA GSC @uceagsc.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
It's Friday, and our last day of programming at #UCEA2024! At 1:20pm, join us for "Demystifying the Academic Job Search..." in San Gabriel C. Open to positions outside of academia? Explore options outside the professoriate at 2:40pm in San Jose with our own Dr. Muñiz!
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Dr. Samantha Viano @drsamviano.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
These parent prosection are certainly warranted, but I am very skeptical they would affect the likelihood of future tragedies. In many of these cases, parents are in such denial that they likely can't imagine their kid could become a school shooter, much less being prosecuted for it
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The camera loves you at all times and in all ways just to watch you fall down a flight of stairs? More seriously, they’re an over surveillance that imposes certain behavioral norms merely by being present.
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Great day at @uceagsc.bsky.social Grad Student Symposium! What a great way to discuss research and have dedicated feedback.
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Follow up: the FCC apparently increases fines over time for repeat offenders of using the EAS inappropriately. www.broadcastlawblog.com/2023/02/arti...
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$504,000 Proposed Fine for Improper Use of EAS Tones - How Little Things Can Add Up to Big FCC Penalties
The recent $504,000 fine proposed to be levied on Fox for the use of simulated EAS tones in an NFL football promotion (see FCC’s Notice of Apparent
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
You’ve got this!
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
@uceagsc.bsky.social and @aeraedresearch.bsky.social what about adding conference presentation shares?
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Very excited to present on Thursday!
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Gabriel Rodríguez Lemus, Jr. @grodriguezlemus.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
We are almost at capacity in this starter pack! Everyone now left to be added will be added to Education Scholars Part II! If I didn’t add you to first one & you want to be added reply to to post! #EducationScholars go.bsky.app/H3QkVDR
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Howdy. Would love to be added if there’s still room. #EducationScholars I study school safety practices and policy implementation.
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Bluesky academics, let’s get to know each other! Quote & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about. 1. What schools can learn from shooting after action reports? 2. The school safety organization ecosystem.
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Who’s studying or researching school safety? #quant or #qual? #edupolicy? #eduresearch #schoolsafety bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Lastly, there are similar laws such as the Geneva Convention banning using a red cross on a white background to only identify authentic medical services. For example, @concernedape.bsky.social fixed an inadvertent violation in an early Stardew Valley patch.
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Interestingly, the FCC rule applies to sounds that are similar enough to the EAS that they may accidentally cause a panic. It's not about the boundaries of the law but the potential for misinterpretation and ultimate outcomes.
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Second, decreasing situational awareness. The Robb Elementary School shooting House report found that over use of the lockdown drill notification for community bailout incidents led to decreased overall crisis concerns. www.texastribune.org/2022/07/17/l...
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“Systemic failures” in Uvalde shooting went far beyond local police, Texas House report details
In total, 376 law enforcement officers descended upon the school, according to the most extensive account of the shooting to date. It says that better-equipped departments should have stepped up to fi...
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
First, causing undue panic: think the panic caused by the radio broadcast of War of the Worlds. www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
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'I had no idea I'd become a national event': Orson Welles on the mass hysteria of The War of the Worlds
The director recounts his version of events in an interview from the BBC archive.
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Today I learned that "no person may transmit ... a recording or simulation" of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) sound outside of an authentic emergency notification or system test. This is important because of yelling fire in a crowded theater AND the boy who cried wolf. www.fcc.gov/enforcement/...
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Misuse of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) Sound
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
It's satisfying that the company that publishes the same article after every school shooting, @theonion.com, purchased the company that fueled school shooting conspiracy theories. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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The Onion buys Alex Jones's Infowars at auction
Infowars was auctioned as part of a defamation ruling after Jones falsely called the Sandy Hook School shooting a hoax.
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Would love to!
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Sorry you experienced that. Take care of your kids and yourself tonight.
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Providing resources to prevent or mitigate bad-faith agitators attacking your work.
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
For some, “safety” means “I want to be comfortable.” Could be ideologically, physically, emotionally, etc. For others, it means “I want to exist.” For the former, any threat to comfort is a threat to safety. For the latter, threats to safety are an existential threat. These are not the same thing.
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
As a teacher, one of the most important lessons I learned was being “respectful.” Some people people act as “treat me as a human and I treat you as a human.” Others act as “treat me as an authority or I won’t treat you as a human.” I was today years old when I learned that “safety” is similar. 1/2
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 14/05/2024
Reading a book about a supposedly transformative school policing model when the author wrote, paraphrasing, it’s not the school-to-prison but the culture-to-prison pipeline. I can’t even….
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 14/05/2024
Asiago
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 02/05/2024
The creativity in mathematics is mind blowing. 🤯
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 02/05/2024
There’s literally imaginary numbers that someone had to make up to make math work. And now imaginary numbers are the basis of electronics.
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 23/04/2024
And kudos to the Master’s in Emergency Management program for being ranked #1! Cannot be more grateful to have the program chair, Dr. Claire Connolly Knox, as a mentor! www.ucf.edu/news/us-news....
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 23/04/2024
Thank you @ucf.bsky.social School of Public Admin for inviting me to give a lunch talk on my dissertation research! What a great discussion to learn from scholars in emergency management!
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 19/04/2024
“It is also showing how school and community investments in public libraries, bystander interventions and universal school-based violence prevention programs, among others, together contribute to safer schools.” I was 8.
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 12/04/2024
Update: Thank you for the power strip @aeraedresearch.bsky.social !
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 12/04/2024
Might start raining. Might not. Still a good day to be at #aera24! But can @aeraedresearch.bsky.social put a charger or power strip in the quiet work room? Currently no way to charge devices in there….
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NPR @npr.org · 06/04/2024
For decades, 911 call takers have had three main options: send emergency medical responders, fire and police.
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Many 911 call centers are understaffed, and the job has gotten harder
More cities are adopting alternative response models, where mental health clinicians respond instead of police. The question of who to send usually rests with 911 workers, who are often overworked and...
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
Very excited to have an important conversation with these researchers at #aera24. Join us Saturday, 4/13, if you're attending! @aeraedresearch.bsky.social @drsamviano.bsky.social @lucy-sorensen.bsky.social @sonalirajan.bsky.social
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
Let’s not.
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
Right?!
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
Good question! I have to timestamp when someone starts and stops talking: mouth opening and closing. With multiple people on a zoom recording, seeing the mouth movements during overlapping talk helps identify who said what.
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Jen Classen @jenclassen.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
I never realized how much the Magic School Bus computer games from elementary school would have residual impacts. Here's to the chatterbox mini-game training me to do transcription for my dissertation. Also, TIL Ms. Frizzle was voiced by the amazing @lilytomlin.bsky.social
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