Ensuring School Safety

The recent HB 1941 (2022) added language to the regular drill requirements. The new language seems to have caused a bit of confusion. Let’s take...

The Legislature used these words to underscore the importance of safety planning when it first required districts and schools to develop and maintain safety plans...

When we begin comprehensive safety planning, we do a risk assessment for our district or our school. What are those risks and hazards which we...

In preparing to write this school safety blog, I have found myself falling down a rabbit hole. Initially, I wanted to open 2022 with a...

I have started this month’s school safety blog many times. Many times. A tragedy occurred, yet another school shooting. The focus of this blog changed....

Remember COVID? It is obviously not over yet. The depth, breadth, and duration of the pandemic is something that we had not experienced before. Now,...

I think something every adult needs to hear right now is that students are struggling. Just as teachers are most definitely overwhelmed with the new...

For those of you who have known me for a while, you may know that I was an English teacher for years – both English...

In a recent article published by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), author Mica Pollock addresses the topic of hateful speech in schools....