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How do we prevent the next school shooting? By knowing the warning signs.
Dr. Langman's timely book presents practical, research-based guidance on anticipating and preventing mass attacks. Warning Signs is for all members of a school community, including school personnel, mental health professionals, law enforcement officers, parents, and students. Drawing on lessons learned from dozens of thwarted plots and deadly attacks, Warning Signs provides the insight necessary to keep schools safe.
2024 Global Book Awards Silver Medalist in Education & Teaching
Columbine. Sandy Hook. Parkland. Uvalde. Like terrible deja vu, we see the same mistakes being made which lead to heartbreaking loss of life in America's schools. While it seems like an unsolvable problem, what if there were actions you could take today to make your schools safer by staying one step ahead of the next shooting?
A former homicide detective and SWAT officer, author Tom Czyz brings extensive experience from the world of active shootings, including independent investigations at over sixty school shootings since 2012. In Staying One Step Ahead: Ending the Story of Active Shooter in America's Schools, he shares the unvarnished truth about how schools and law enforcement can protect children and staff.
Inside, you'll learn:
Using the 2022 Uvalde school shooting as a primary case study, Czyz provides direct and detailed insights about the vulnerabilities schools need to consider, including recognizing bad policies, implementing proven training, and bolstering physical security.
In a world that feels out of control, Staying One Step Ahead shines a light into what schools and law enforcement can control to protect students by taking the right actions. Don't count on the media or politicians to make the changes we need. You can start taking those actions now--to save lives and end the story of active shooter.
Police officers, armed security guards, surveillance cameras, and metal detectors are common features of the disturbing new landscape at many of today's high schools. You will also find new and harsher disciplinary practices: zero-tolerance policies, random searches with drug-sniffing dogs, and mandatory suspensions, expulsions, and arrests, despite the fact that school crime and violence have been decreasing nationally for the past two decades. While most educators, students, and parents accept these harsh policing and punishment strategies based on the assumption that they keep children safe, Aaron Kupchik argues that we need to think more carefully about how we protect and punish students.
In Homeroom Security, Kupchik shows that these policies lead schools to prioritize the rules instead of students, so that students' real problems--often the very reasons for their misbehavior--get ignored. Based on years of impressive field research, Kupchik demonstrates that the policies we have zealously adopted in schools across the country are the opposite of the strategies that are known to successfully reduce student misbehavior and violence. As a result, contemporary school discipline is often unhelpful, and can be hurtful to students in ways likely to make schools more violent places. Furthermore, those students who are most at-risk of problems in schools and dropping out are the ones who are most affected by these counterproductive policies. Our schools and our students can and should be safe, and Homeroom Security offers real strategies for making them so.
Move away from one-size-fits-all support to targeted interventions that work!
When schools take a positive approach to behavioral issues, everyone benefits. With this companion to The PBIS Tier One Handbook, you'll develop a menu of data-driven, targeted Tier Two interventions that give students the help they need...without overtaxing school resources. This step-by-step guide features:
This is a cautionary tale told by Ms. Fly, who is well into her beloved professional career. Unfortunately, she notices that fellow faculty and administrators seemingly did not get the memo about bullying and its destruction of schools as a safe place.
Ms. Fly, who is usually humorous and lighthearted, was deeply concerned about the memo. The topic sparks her curiosity about escalating hostility in today's American schools. Although she had been recently diagnosed with a compromising medical condition, Ms. Fly could not resist her need to journey into the higher expectations of pedagogy and humanity.
Looking at her own safe place work environment, Ms. Fly falls back on her deepest convictions: perseverance, truths, and hard work. She must do something to rid the toxic notion of bullying and its devastating effects on schools in America. Her quest is engaging, interactive, and inspirational.
Developing Comprehensive School Safety and Mental Health Programs offers an integrated, long-term plan to create safe and supportive learning environments.
This user-friendly guide illustrates how to develop, implement, evaluate, and sustain multiple evidence-based programs that work. This book informs school mental health professionals, administrators, and teachers about multi-tiered service delivery, organizational development, and facilitating the implementation process. It describes the complementary roles of school administrators, counselors, and school psychologists, providing school staff with time, resources, and ongoing support to strengthen their skills and sustain programs they have embraced. It expresses empathy and appreciation for teachers, advocating for their personal growth, professional collaboration, and stress management.
School leaders, facilitators, and teams are provided the knowledge, skills, and long-term plans to effectively advocate, assess needs, select programs, train and encourage staff, provide resources, and implement, evaluate, and sustain desired goals.
Whether you have been teaching ten years or ten minutes, the advice in this book will help you navigate the sometimes rocky road of education.
Lives may be saved
Dan's book is well written, informative, and needed. My daughter is a middle school principal and I bought the book for her as a Christmas present. The day after I had read it I gave it to her, not waiting for Christmas.
(Mary S. Retired teacher)
According to the FBI, an active school shooter event lasts an average of 3-5 minutes.
What you do with that time can save lives.
From Dan Dluzneski, school safety expert and retired Lieutenant of the US Secret Service comes The First FIVE Minutes, a proven guide to locking down effectively. In an event as stressful as a school shooting, the normal human response is to freeze. Imagine if instead of panicking, you knew exactly what to do. And even better, that your entire staff and student body could act quickly and seamlessly to secure your school?
The First Five Minutes offers tested and proven critical advice that is both affordable and practical. After reading this book, you will:
Get Dan's step-by-step framework, backed by 20 years of successful use in schools across America.
When the adrenaline hits, make every minute count.
Lockdown. Survive. Save Lives.
Here's what you'll find inside:
Chapter 1: How to choose the best prevention methods to secure your school quickly.
Chapter 2: How practice drills oil your muscle memory to know what to do, even when you don't.
Chapter 3: How preparation for unique situations will help you streamline even the most complicated scenarios.
Chapter 4: New technologies that may help your school.
BONUSES included with the book:
A word from the author:
My personal mission is to educate people within organizations about what to do in an emergency situation, such as an active shooter, fire, or bomb threat. My background and experience is an invaluable tool to train people and help increase their confidence in responding to a threat. It is better to be proactive and prepared in advance for a situation that may occur. - Dan Dluzneski (The First FIVE Minutes)
An expert's guide to creating safety in educational environments and responding correctly when the unthinkable happens
In All Clear: Lessons from a Decade Managing School Crises, safety expert Chris Joffe shows district and school leaders how to create safety in school environments and develop a plan for responding effectively in the event of emergency--whether it be from an allergy attack or an active shooter. In our ever-changing educational and cultural landscape, this is a critical resource. A sought-after safety trainer and consultant for schools, Chris draws on decades of experience to guide and empower district and school leaders to prepare for and execute crucial next steps in the wake of a school emergency.
The techniques in this book are not just hypothetical. Chris Joffe has a substantive background in emergency and crisis response, and Joffe Emergency Services has been trusted to put preparedness plans into place across U.S. school districts, charter schools, private schools, and global companies. With this book, you'll learn how to prioritize the health and safety of your students in a way that considers the unique attributes of your school or district.
All Clear empowers district and school leaders, heads of school, and school security professionals--as well as teachers, parents, and other youth leaders--to create secure learning environments where students can feel safe.
School Safety is a great resource for any teacher or school leader, as its action research of safety practices in the field offers wise guidance for the reader in the domain of school safety.
From America's most prominent school reformer (LOS ANGELES TIMES) comes a stirring personal meditation on what works-and what doesn't-in our high schools today. Revisiting America's classrooms, Sizer assesses the changes over the past decade and a half - from school choice to interdisciplinary learning - that give us reason to be hopeful. Tracy Kidder has called thisan eloquent book.
Despite numerous highly publicized incidents and widespread calls for reform, hazing continues to plague many of the nation's institutions. In this volume, noted hazing researcher Hank Nuwer presents 15 classic or never-before-published essays that can help all of us, parent and professional alike, better understand the culture of hazing. The collection, which includes contributions from such experts as Michael Gordon, Walter Kimbrough, Stephen Sweet, and Lionel Tiger, looks at hazing behavior in fraternal organizations (including sororities and traditionally black fraternities), high school, the military, and sports. There are also chapters on hazing and the law, hazing injuries, and hazing and gender. Lastly, the book lays out steps for transforming a culture of hazing and offers suggestions for further reading.
This comprehensive, evidence-based examination looks at violence and security across the entire spectrum of education, from preschool through college.
In Violence and Security on Campus: From Preschool through College two expert authors take an evidence-based look at this important issue, dispelling myths and misconceptions about the problem and offering appropriate responses to it. Their book examines patterns, trends, correlations, and causes of violence, crime, and disorder in diverse educational settings, from elementary schools through colleges and universities. It reviews data and research evidence related to forms of violence, from bullying to murder, and it explores the varied security concerns that confront schools of different levels. In addition to describing the nature and extent of the school violence problem, which is often divergent from media reports, the authors point to other security issues that need to be considered and addressed by administrators and security personnel. Finally, they assess a variety of policy responses and security solutions--some popular yet ineffective, some challenging yet promising--offering advice that will enhance the security of any institution of learning.
A thorough overview of violence and crime in America's schools explores which solutions work and which don't, providing a framework for prevention at every level.
Although it is major incidents like Columbine or Virginia Tech that grab the headlines, everyday occurrences of bullying, harassment, and physical intimidation in schools impact entire communities, driving kids out of public schools and destroying faith in public education. Preventing Violence and Crime in America's Schools: From Put-Downs to Lock-Downs provides educators, parents, law enforcement officials, and other youth-serving professionals with a unique perspective on the topic of school violence. More important, it offers solutions to the problems facing all schools when it comes to violence and safety. Two expert authors examine specifics relating to school violence, opportunities to prevent and intervene, and the importance of planning for a crisis. Most other books about school violence either highlight the research or highlight practitioner viewpoints. This revealing book presents both, balancing insights gained through real-world experiences with research on best practices. The result is a fuller understanding of the problem--understanding that will enable solutions.
An all-in-one resource for keeping students safe
Author Kenneth S. Trump has dedicated his career to making schools safer, and his book delivers school security solutions in a concise and straightforward manner. He provides an overview of school security and nuts-and-bolts strategies for preventing violence and preparing for crises. Hot topics covered include:
The author's companion website keeps readers current with breaking news and interactive dialogue.