Giving Compass' Take:

• Education Dive addresses the issue of school violence from an architectural perspective: The ways school are built can go a long way to create not only safer spaces, but ones that are more nurturing.

• School shootings continue to be a source of great concern across the country. Policy needs to be a major part of the conversation, but it's also worth looking at other unorthodox solutions.

• Here's why it's time to ask deeper questions about school shootings.

In 2018, there has been, on average, close to one mass shooting in the U.S. per day.

If that statistic, from the nonprofit Gun Violence Archive, wasn’t shocking enough, guns have killed or injured more than 2,700 people under the age of 18 this year, their data shows. In many cases, these deaths and wounds are associated with a school shooting.

The aftermath of major student massacres — like that in Parkland, Florida, or Santa Fe, Texas — has left members inside and outside of school communities to grapple with the everlasting question that has catapulted to the center of the nation's attention: How do school and community leaders prevent this from happening again?

Typical answers usually involve stricter gun control policies, hiring more school resource officers or arming teachers. But there’s something even more fundamental — the design of the school building.

Whether creating a structure from the ground up or updating what’s been built, stakeholders are being tasked with a new challenge of designing safer schools, especially during an era where school shootings and other violent incidents have led parents to fear for their children's' welfare during the day. It’s no simple project — not only do experts need to bump up security measures, but they also can’t forget they're building a school, not a harsh, prison-like space.

Read the full article about how building design can help prevent school shootings by Jessica Campisi at Education Dive.