Tabletop Exercise 1: Student Hasn’t Returned Home from School. What Would You Do?
Test your school’s emergency response skills with these real-life incidents.
Test your school’s emergency response skills with these real-life incidents.
Questioning and challenging conventional wisdom and traditional school safety plans is essential to improving our response to active shooters and other threats.
Building a staffing model that brings a part or full-time crisis planning position into the K-12 organizational structure will better protect schools.
Parents must follow school emergency protocols to avoid further complicating an incident, and continuous communication from the school is key.
When writing your school safety plans and policies, be sure they are realistic, clear, and actionable so they will be effective.
The grand jury measured all 14 school districts’ preparedness against leading practices through interviews, site visits, and expert witness testimony.
Schools should continuously review their security and safety programs, involving educators and only adopting practices and technologies that are appropriate.
The new school-owned organization delivers unbiased research and experience-based critical incident response services and training to school leaders.
Campus weather preparedness plans, outreach and training must take into account the fact that tornadoes, as well as other weather hazards, can happen at any time.
Marlon Lynch will become MSU’s vice president and chief safety officer. The chief of police position will become its own stand-alone role reporting to him.