This document provides an agenda and information for an Aspiring Principals Program community of practice session on school safety. The session objectives are to provide strategies for responding to safety breaches, resources for crisis planning, and an understanding of state mandates. The agenda includes a tabletop exercise where participants visualize and plan responses to a scenario involving a shooter at a school. Resources on various crisis management topics will also be shared and discussed.

1. Aspiring Principals
Program
APPD Community of Practice
15 September 2014
5:00PMest - 6:00PMest

2. Session Outcomes
• By the end of the session, APPDs will have a(n):
• constructed response to breaches of school
safety by engaging in tabletop visualization
exercises
• a list of print and online resource materials, as
well as an understanding of where to access
APPD-shared crisis plan materials on our NL
wiki so that they can better support Residents in
developing effective school safety and crisis
plans.
• a shared understanding of common and unique
crisis plan state requirements so that they can
collaborate as APPDs in developing the school
safety in-person sessin.

3. Session Agenda
Agenda Items Time
Outcomes, (current) APPD norms, and Agenda 5:00p - 5:05p
Share Fair 5:05p - 5:15p
School Safety Module: I Know and I Can 5:15p - 5:20p
Possible Resident Activity: Tabletop Visualization 5:20p - 5:45p
Reviewing State Mandates - Emergency Response Plans 5:45p - 5:50p
Resources Overview (Print and Web) 5:50p - 5:55p
Plus/Delta Evaluations 5:55p - 6:00p

4. School
Safety
ShareFair!
Do you have any resources
(print or online)
that you would like to share with
the APPD community!
We’d love to hear about it!

5. Session Outcomes:
 Explain how district or CMO creates a supportive school environment supportive to the needs of all students
 Construct responses to breaches of school safety
 Evaluate various types of crisis management system in order to apply to variety of scenarios

6. Intruder at Waterfront School!

7. Waterfront Intruder
The following tabletop exercise is an effective way to help you learn
what you may need to consider when developing your emergency
response procedures.
You will be given ten minutes to discuss and prepare your initial
emergency response actions. Updates will be provided as they
come in.
As you answer questions, frame your thinking by considering the
following:
“How would my Residents respond to this situation?”

8. As students arrived at school on the
first day after spring break, a woman
in her middle 20s is noticed entering
through the main entrance. Because
she is known to faculty and staff as
the spouse of an English Instructor,
no one thought to question her as she
entered the building. The woman
went directly to her husband’s
classroom along with the students.
When the woman arrived in the
classroom, she pulled out a 9mm
hand gun and began screaming at her
husband. (Her husband had told her
the evening before that he was going
to file for divorce and request custody
of their child.) Immediately, the
instructor shouted for the students to
hit the deck.
Upon hearing the commotion, an
instructor in a nearby room called the
main office. The schools
emergency plan was immediately
activated.

9. In your small
group
Review the campus map provided
to you via email.
On a sheet of paper, draw a team
communications map based on the
scenario questions provided.
Discuss and be prepared to share
answers as a whole group.

10. The police have been called and are on their way. According to an
instructor in an adjacent classroom, a male instructor who went to
the classroom in an attempt to calm the shooter has also been taken
hostage. The woman is highly agitated and is screaming at her
husband and his students. A custodian has told a secretary that he
is going to sneak down the hallway to see if he can gather more
information about what’s going on in the classroom.
1. Does this information change your planning? If so, how?
2. What should you do about the custodian?
3. Will you evacuate some or all of the school?
4. For what contingencies must you plan now/
5. What will you tell parents? How will you notify them?

11. The police and a hostage negotiator have arrived at the scene. They
have cordoned off the area surrounding the school. Fire personnel
and several emergency medical services crews have also been
dispatched to the school.
Just as the police arrive, the phone rings in the main office. The
instructor who has been reporting the situation is calling to report
that she has just heard a loud crash. She says the shooter just left
the classroom and is heading in the direction of the school’s
mechanical room.
1. What information will you provide to the police?
2. How will you work with the police throughout the
remainder of this incident?
3. Now that the shooter has left the classroom, what
should your immediate concerns be?
4. What does the fact that the male instructor tried to
intervene tell you about your emergency plan?
5. For what long-range processes must you plan?

12. It is now approximately 1½ hours since the incident started. Through
the efforts of the police department’s hostage negotiator, the shooter
has surrendered without further violence. Police are escorting her to
a police vehicle.
The media picked up on the incident and began interrupting regularly
scheduled programming about 30 minutes ago. Since that time, the
telephone at the school has been ringing constantly as parents try to
find out about their children. Parents are starting to arrive and are
upset that the police will not allow them past the barrier to talk to
school personnel and find their children.
1. What can you do to assist the police in addressing te
parents’ concerns?
2. How will you handle the media?

13. Connections to
Resident Learning
What insights has
participating in this exercise
provided you about your
Residents’ readiness for an
emergency situation
involving an intruder?
What training or support
needs have you uncovered
in thinking about how to
prepare Residents for
developing or implementing
an Emergency Response
plan?

14. School
Safety
Resources

15. at least three mandates from your state regarding a school crisis plan; Be prepared to share

16. Crisis
Management
Families trust schools to keep their children safe during the day. Thanks to
the efforts of millions of teachers, principals, and staff across America, the
majority of schools remain safe havens for our nation’s youth. The
unfortunate reality is, however, that school districts in this country may be
touched either directly or indirectly by a crisis of some kind at any time.
Natural disasters such as floods, earthquakes, fires, and tornadoes can
strike a community with little or no warning. An influenza pandemic, or other
infectious disease, can spread from person-to-person causing serious illness
across the country, or around the globe, in a very short time. School
shootings, threatened or actual, are extremely rare but are horrific and
chilling when they occur. The harrowing events of September 11 and
subsequent anthrax scares have ushered in a new age of terrorism.
Amazon - $21
http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Information-Crisis-Planning-
Communities/dp/1492883565/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=14105
47583&sr=1-1&keywords=practical+information+on+crisis+planning

17. Crisis
Management
Here are hundreds of step-by-step guidelines, strategies, and
working plans for helping students in grades K-12 overcome
any kind of crisis or tragedy, including personal losses, tragic
accidents, a terminally ill classmate, suicide, violence, and
natural disasters. Plus, this complete and comprehensive
resource includes reproducible activity sheets for counselors
and teachers to use at different stages of a child's recovery --
activities that will help put children in touch with their feelings,
identify problems, and easy their healing.
Amazon - $29
http://www.amazon.com/School-Crisis-Survival-Guide-
Administrators/dp/0876288069/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=14
10547846&sr=8-1&keywords=school+crisis+survival+guide

18. Crisis
Management
Drawn from the firsthand experiences of those "in the
trenches" of crisis intervention, this guide provides
powerful crisis response recommendations that are
immediately applicable--within an hour of an incident
and in the days, weeks, and months that follow. Real-life
case studies from two highly publicized 1997-1998
school shootings illustrate the recommended steps to
take not only in shooting incidents, but in cases of
fights, bomb threats, suicides, gang-related violance,
accidental deaths, and any other tragedy. Step-by-step
information and ideas are offered to help schools,
parents, and community caregivers.
Amazon - $25 (limited)
http://www.amazon.com/Coping-Crisis-Lessons-Scott-
Poland/dp/1570352186/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1410547358&sr=1-
1&keywords=Coping+with+Crisis%3A+Lessons+Learned+%28Paperback%29

19. Crisis
Management
When crisis strikes, the first 30 minutes are the
most crucial. Through this revised Crisis
Management manual you will find out how to: *
set up an Incident Command System * organize a
Communications Command Center * Do's and
don'ts of working with the media when a crisis
strikes * lessons learned from Hurrican Katrina
and other crises * plus adaptable, ready-to-use
letters and sample voice messaging scripts that
cover many crisis situations
Amazon - $180 (limited)
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Revised-Crisis-Communication-
Management/dp/B001V8J5GK/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1410547459&
sr=1-
1&keywords=the+complete+crisis+communication+management+manual+for+s
chools

20. Bullying
It's the deadliest combination going: bullies who
terrorize, bullied kids who are afraid to tell, bystanders
who watch, and adults who see the incidents as a
normal part of childhood. All it takes to understand that
this is a recipe for tragedy is a glance at headlines
across the country. In this updated edition of The Bully,
the Bullied, and the Bystander, which includes a new
section on cyberbullying, one of the world's most
trusted parenting educators gives parents, caregivers,
educators—and most of all, kids—the tools to break the
cycle of violence.
Amazon - $9
http://www.amazon.com/Bully-Bullied-Bystander-Preschool-School--How-ebook/
dp/B003JBHVUE/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1410547904&sr=8-
14&keywords=bullying+for+school+administrators

21. Bullying
The author offers leaders practical
tools and strategies to create legally
based and ethically sound approaches
to dealing with and preventing bullying
in schools.
Amazon - $33
http://www.amazon.com/School-Bullying-Tools-Avoiding-
Liability/dp/1412915724/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1410548057&
sr=8-1&keywords=bullying+for+school+principals

22. School Safety
Getting Classroom Management RIGHT provides
resources specifically designed for teachers who
work with adolescents and want to create learning
environments that foster fairness, mutual respect,
student accountability, and self-discipline. It offers
research-based tools, skills, and guiding principles
that enable secondary teachers to organize and
manage their classrooms for optimal learning;
prevent most disruptive behaviors; diagnose and
respond to problematic behaviors efficiently; and
provide the right kinds of accountable consequences
and supportive interventions that will help reluctant
and resistant students.
New Leader Core Resource

23. School Safety
Just as culture is critical to understanding the
dynamics behind any thriving community,
organization, or business, the daily realities and
deep structure of school life hold the key to
educational success. Reforms that strive for
educational excellence are likely to fail unless
they are meaningfully linked to the school's
unique culture. In Shaping School Culture,
Terrence E. Deal and Kent D. Peterson show
how leaders can harness the power of school
culture to build a lively, cooperative spirit and a
sense of school identity.
New Leader Core Resource

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rems.ed.gov/

26. IMAGE
stopbullying.gov

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stopbullying.gov

28. IMAGE
TNTP
Greenhouse schools
How Schools Can Build
Cultures
Where Teachers and
Students Thrive
http://tntp.org/assets/do
cuments/TNTP_Greenh
ouse_Schools_2012.pdf

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The School Leader’s
Tool for Assessing and
Improving School
Culture
http://community.ksde.o
rg/LinkClick.aspx?filetic
ket=Inqbqt4qtQQ%3D&t
abid=4484

30. IMAGE
Transforming School
Culture: Stories,
symbols, values and the
leader’s role
https://scholarsbank.uor
egon.edu/xmlui/bitstrea
m/handle/1794/3296/tra
nsforming_school_cultu
re.pdf