Determining Priorities
Four BIG Problems Arise When “Advisory” Groups Dictate School Safety Protocols – SDP #10
School leaders must maintain the distinct purpose of advisory groups as informing those that make decisions and not allow such groups to transform into a small group model which develops protocols and policies that are then vetted by school leaders and school boards.
Read MoreThree Spectacular In-The-Moment High-Stakes Decisions that Saved Lives – SDP#9
Lessons of Lower Manhattan A Contrarian’s Perspective of the Unconventional, Exceptional Rescue of 500,000 People By David Perrodin, PhD Submitted for publication in School Business Affairs, February, 2017 Listen to this podcast live M-R at 9PM PST on the405media.com Anything You Want and Not Everything You Want I worked with a school business manager who…
Read MoreThe Biggest Safety Gap in Most Professional Sports Stadiums & Arenas: Scott Meyers Interview – SDP#4
While user-friendly icon-based mobile app managed systems have become common at the professional and college levels, there is very little penetration into K-12 settings, even for districts with 70 or more schools!
Read MoreCHNA Will Be Your Partner in Serving Needy Children & Families
CHNA Will Be Your Partner in Serving Needy Children and Families David Perrodin, PhD Note to reader: This article was published in the November, 2016, Sprigeo, Inc. newsletter. Per the Instructions for IRS Form 990, Schedule H, 2011 and the Patient Protection are Act, the Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) is conducted to aid a…
Read MoreProtecting Soft Targets – My Thoughts about the 2005 Study of Chula Vista High School (San Diego)
“Establishing a containment perimeter while a SWAT team is assembled to conduct a slow methodical building to building search is an obsolete procedure.” Crockett, et. al., 2005. On December 7, 2005, researchers conducted a safety analysis of a high school in San Diego. The study team, which included a Microsoft employee, offered many practical sense crisis…
Read MoreSully: My Search for What Really Matters (Why School Leaders Must Exercise the Career-Defining Dissenting Opinion)
“You can not plan for every contingency, nor should you try.” (David Perrodin, 2016) People don’t plan to fail, but fail to plan. Yes, maybe, but that’s not a steadfast omni-situational saying. It’s actually a ridiculous statement. Today some leaders are terrified to make decisions that they judge to be accurate per “gut feeling ” and “wrong” per…
Read MoreHarrisburg Shooting Reflection Delivers Conflicting Messages
By Erin Mairose • Aug 5, 2016 at http://listen.sdpb.org/post/school-administrators-reflect-harrisburg-shooting#stream/0 (this article refers to an incident that occurred in 2015) “After a student shot Principal Kevin Lein in his office, Assistant Principal Ryan Rollinger tackled the student while waiting for law enforcement. Rollinger says school administrators are the people who teach school drills. But it’s important for administrators…
Read MoreFive Free FEMA Training Modules I Recommend for K-12 School Principals
University leadership programs may offer crisis courses based on the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) standards, but the level of specificity and fidelity to these standards depends on the particular university and instructor. Because of the deviation in presentation of ISLLC standards, some educational leaders may have little to no exposure to crisis management…
Read MoreThe Revolving Door of the Principalship – and what it means for crisis preparedness in a school
School safety is receiving more attention today than any previous time in history. Yet, implementation of school crisis preparedness measures is largely dependent upon school leadership – which is possibly in the most perilous condition in the history of contemporary American K-12 education. As principal turnover rates accelerate, vision and implementation are strained, halted or…
Read MoreJohns Hopkins Medicine Residency Requires 20 Hours of Emergency Preparedness Curriculum, But K-12 School Leader Licensure Mandates Zero Hours of Emergency Preparedness Curriculum
It’s time that licensure requirements for K-12 leaders include a 1 credit course (15 hours) of crisis preparedness and response training. While this topic might be grazed upon within some post-secondary school leader (principal) coursework, it’s certainly not provided the depth of dedicated focus warranted in consideration of the evolution of school crisis needs over the…
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