Category: Best Practices
Code Phrases
As more and more school campuses are forced to confront bomb threats and conduct drills for attacks such as Columbine and the Virginia Tech shooting, an area of concern is the continued use of code phrases to alert school staff. The desire to use codes is understandable. An intercom announcement stating “We have just received a bomb threat.” is hardly precursor to a successful response.
School Safety Conference
The Missouri School Boards’ Association is putting on a Coordinated School Safety Conference July 30th & 31st in Columbia, MO (http://www.schoolsafetyconference.com).
Swine Flu Preparedness for Schools -SafePlans offers free web-conference
The recent declaration of a public health emergency over the swine flu cases in the U.S. and Mexico highlights the importance of public health and [pandemic planning. An influenza-based public health emergency and/or pandemic has always been a question of “when” not “if" and while it was assumed a new strain of /avian flu would be the culprit, experts emphasized a pandemic can be caused by any new virus.
Columbine. Anniversaries are important – even the bad ones.
04/14/09, by Brad 
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Categories: Best Practices, School Safety News, Severe Weather, Threat Assessment On April 20, 1999 two cowards made their way into history by murdering 12 students and a teacher. For most, this anniversary will pass unnoticed. For some, the Columbine anniversary will bring powerful memories of an awful tragedy.
For a very few, the Columbine anniversary will invoke grandiose ideations of violence and immortality that fuel school shooters.
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