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Code Phrases

Permalink 06/16/09, by Brad Email , Categories: Best Practices

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.

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School Safety Conference

Permalink 05/12/09, by Brad Email , Categories: Best Practices, School Safety News

The Missouri School Boards’ Association is putting on a Coordinated School Safety Conference July 30th & 31st in Columbia, MO (http://www.schoolsafetyconference.com).

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Swine Flu Preparedness for Schools -SafePlans offers free web-conference

Permalink 04/26/09, by Brad Email , Categories: Best Practices, Public Health/Pandemic
SafePlans is offering a free pandemic planning web-conference for educators and public health officials. A link to registration is located on the SchoolSafetyNews.com homepage.

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.

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Columbine. Anniversaries are important – even the bad ones.

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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