Shane E. Conwell, Ed.D.
Shane E. Conwell, Ed.D.
Shane Conwell is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Program Director of Graduate Education at Purdue University Fort Wayne (PFW), where he teaches courses in the Educational Leadership, Master’s in Education, and Transition to Teaching programs. He also serves as a Teaching Fellow for the PFW Center for the Enhancement of Learning, supporting Teaching PFW 101. He brings more than 20 years of experience as a former P-12 educator, coach, building level administrator, and superintendent of schools, and remains a participant with the Northeast Indiana Region 8 Education Center Upper Wabash Valley Superintendents Council. His research interests include school safety, with a specialization in deterring school crime and violence through non-hardened preventative measures. He has presented both locally and nationally regarding this work.
- DU 50001 Introduction to Leadership
- EDU 50004 Integrated Professional Seminar
- EDU 51500 Teacher Growth and Supervision
- EDU 56000 Perspectives of Education
- EDU 60800 Introduction to School Law
- EDU 61100 Contemporary Legal Challenges
- EDU 62000 Workshop on Selected Problems in Educational Leadership
- EDU 69500 Practicum in Educational Leadership
- Conwell, S. (2025). Innovative school safety begins with you: The educator’s role in threat assessments. INnovatED Summit for Northeast Indiana Educators, Fort Wayne, IN.
- Conwell, S. & Tierney, A. (2024). Threat Assessment Teams as a non-hardened layered approach to school safety. Leveraging Your Leadership Series (School Safety): Fort Wayne, IN.
- Conwell, S. (2024). Where we have been and where we are going: School safety best practices, including behavioral threat assessment teams. National Student Safety & Security Conference & Workshops: Orlando, FL.
- Conwell, S. (2022). Where we have come and where we are going: School safety best practices, including threat assessment teams. National Student Safety & Security Conference & Workshops: Las Vegas, NV.
- Conwell, S. (2021). School threat assessment teams: A non-hardened approach to deterring school crime and violence. National Student Safety & Security Conference & Workshops: Orlando, FL.
- Conwell, S. E. & Elam, N. P. (2024). Deterring school crime and violence through non-hardened approaches: An examination of school threat assessment teams. Mid-Western Educational Researcher. Volume 36: Issue 1, Article 10.
- Conwell, S., & Elam, N. (2022). School threat assessment teams: A practical approach to navigating the basics for school leaders. Indianagram, 24 (3), 14-15.
- Conwell, S., & Elam, N. (2021). Student well-being: Utilizing school threat assessment teams during and beyond the pandemic. Indianagram, 23 (3), 20-21.
- Conwell, S. E. (2021). A non-hardened preventative approach to deterring school crime and violence: the significance of threat assessment teams in schools across the United States. [Doctoral dissertation, Ball State University]. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.