Tod Schneider provides inspections, consulting and training on safe school design, within a context of Safe, Healthy and Positive Environmental Design (S.H.A.P.E.D.) for schools. His expertise includes Fundamental and Second Generation Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (C.P.T.E.D.) for schools, integrated with Positive Behavior Support, Smart Schools, Public Health, and other movements and areas of study.

Schneider is the author of the Fundamentals of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (C.P.T.E.D.) for Schools Tutorial CD-ROM (2005), co-editor for the National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities inspection checklist, co-author Safe School Design, and a member of the International C.P.T.E.D. Association.

Tod presently serves as a police department crime prevention specialist and a nationally recognized authority on safe school design, personal safety, violence prevention, confrontation management, and related topics. He consults regularly to schools, educational groups and related government organizations. Recently he has joined forces with the National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities in Washington, D.C., where he served as a consulting editor for a comprehensive school facilities checklist, available for free download from www.edfacilities.org . As an offshoot of that project, and in response to popular demand, he is developing CD-ROM based tutorials on school design and related issues.

The first tutorial in the series is entitled “Fundamentals of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (C.P.T.E.D.) for Schools.” Copies are available on CD-ROM for purchase. [Click here for purchase details.]

The C.P.T.E.D. field of study has been growing for over 40 years, tracing back to Jane Jacobs’ work on urban planning. At the fundamental level, C.P.T.E.D. focuses on issues of natural surveillance, natural access control and territoriality/ maintenance. Over the past decade, another dimension of study emerged, known as Second Generation C.P.T.E.D.. The latter addresses the affective environment, and issues of connectivity between people and the organization being studied.

As the field has grown, the acronym has become a pale reflection of the areas of study incorporated. C.P.T.E.D. in fact goes far beyond crime prevention. Second Generation C.P.T.E.D. has been a critical step forward, looking at not just crime, but human relations on a grander scale. At the same time, other areas of study, such as public health and positive behavior support, have brought additional perspectives to the world of school environmental design. A more comprehensive name for this broad area of study is Safe, Healthy and Positive Environmental Design, or S.H.A.P.E.D. for schools. Future tutorials will correspond to other aspects of S.H.A.P.E.D. The first tutorial, available in Powerpoint format, is now available for purchase on CD.