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Safe and Secure Schools (Facilitator's Guide + DVD)

Managing and Responding to Threats and Violence

By: Judy M. Brunner, Dennis K. Lewis

With brand-new videos, discussion questions, tabletop exercises, and a sample action plan, this updated program prepares teachers, staff, parents, and students to respond to emergencies.

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781506328812
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2016
Page Count: 72
Publication date: April 14, 2016

Price: $132.95

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Description

An essential school-safety training tool

Preparing your school to survive a violent emergency can seem like an impossible task. How do you plan for the unpredictable? Begin with this DVD and facilitator’s guide—that reflect the latest research and expertise from school-safety experts Judy Brunner and Dennis Lewis. When you guide teachers and staff through this training, and share the lessons with parents and students, you can be confident every stakeholder will know what to do if the unthinkable comes to pass.

Featuring discussion questions, original videos with review questions, an emergency preparedness classroom checklist, tabletop exercises for staff and students, and a sample action plan you can customize, this program helps you to:

Address how and when to secure a classroom
Understand the differences between posing a threat and making a threat
Clarify the dos and don’ts of electronic communication in an emergency
Teach students about self-sheltering and evacuating if an adult isn’t present
Understand your ethical and legal responsibilities

Threats and violence are an unfortunate reality for many schools. With this comprehensive preparation program, you’ll make sure everyone is ready to respond—and keep your school a safe place for teaching and learning.

Author(s)

Judy M. Brunner

Judy Tilton Brunner is an author and consultant having served as an elementary, middle, and high school principal. She is currently Clinical Faculty at Missouri State University in the Department of Reading, Foundations, and Technology and a regular presenter at national and state conferences on the topics of literacy, differentiated instruction, student engagement, classroom management, school safety, and the prevention of bullying behaviors.

As consultants, Judy and Dennis K. Lewis work with school districts across the United States on topics related to creating and maintaining safe schools, crisis planning and management, managing aggressive and violent students, and the prevention of bullying behaviors. They have served as expert witnesses in matters of litigation on school violence and bullying and have written numerous articles for national school safety magazines, periodicals and served as guest lecturers for several universities. They are the co-founders of Edu-Safe LLC, a school safety and advisory service, as well as Instructional Solutions Group.

Their method of training school staff and crisis management teams for responding to classroom and school emergencies by problem solving events through the use of tabletop exercises has been featured in a variety of national publications. Both are widely respected in the field of school safety.

Dennis K. Lewis

Dennis K. Lewis has over thirty-eight years of experience in working to provide safe schools and communities, including seventeen years as the director of a school police department for a large mid-western school district. He has held numerous offices for the National Association of School Safety and Law Enforcement Officers (NASSLEO) and is the past President of that organization.

As consultants, Dennis and Judy Brunner work with school districts across the United States on topics related to creating and maintaining safe schools, crisis planning and management, managing aggressive and violent students, and the prevention of bullying behaviors. They have served as expert witnesses in matters of litigation on school violence and bullying and have written numerous articles for national school safety magazines, periodicals and served as guest lecturers for several universities. They are the co-founders of Edu-Safe LLC, a school safety and advisory service, as well as Instructional Solutions Group.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

About the Authors

Introduction

How to Use This Guide

Chapter 1: Video Discussion Questions

Part One - Introduction

Part Two - Legal and Professional Responsibilities

Part Three - School Climate, Bullying, Harassment, and Acts of Violence

Part Four - Understanding and Managing Student Threats of Violence

Part Five - Administrative Preparedness: Responding to Acts of Violence

Part Six - Classroom Preparedness: Responding to Acts of Violence

Part Seven - Student Preparedness: Responding to Acts of Violence

Part Eight - Support Staff Preparedness: Responding to Acts of Violence

Part Nine - Parent Preparedness: Responding to Acts of Violence

Part Ten - Emergency Preparedness for Extra Curricular & Non-Traditional Settings: Responding to Acts of Violence

Part Eleven - Responding to Bomb Threats and Explosive Devices

Chapter 2: Tabletop Exercises - Using Scenario-Based Exercises for Increased Participant Learning

Staff Scenarios

Exercise Instructions

Facilitator Instructions

Tabletop Exercises

Student Scenarios

Exercise Instructions

Facilitator Instructions

Tabletop Exercises

Resources

Bomb Threat Checklist

Bomb Threat Pyramid

Cafeteria Evacuation Procedure

Classroom Checklist

Emergency Response Plan App

Gym Shelter Procedures

Sample Calendar

Sample Lesson Plan

Sample Portfolio

Sample Supervision Plan

Threat Assessment Considerations and Questions

Threat Protocol

References

Reviews

"School violence is a part of our lives and being prepared is key to surviving. Judy Brunner and Dennis Lewis have provided excellent materials in this training video for educators to understand, observe and respond to threats, and attempt to handle the unthinkable in their schools. We always hope these threats of violence never happen to us. Being intentional and knowing we haven’t waited until they do makes this product an absolute essential for practitioners to have in their toolbox."

Matt Hudson, Dean of Technical Education
Ozarks Technical Community College

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