Best Practices in School Safety, Security, & Emergency Preparedness during COVID-19
Release Date: 10/04/2020
Dangers of insurance companies performing school security assessments
School Safety Insider
School insurance companies are offering "free" security and emergency preparedness assessments to their school clients, but there are hidden dangers for superintendents and boards who chose to have unskilled insurance representatives perform security assessments. This episode explains why this is a risky approach. We also take listeners through our unique, three-decade process of evaluating school security and emergency preparedness.
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Election Day School Security - Safety for Voting at Schools
School Safety Insider
Schools are polling places in many communities. Schools tighten security and control access year-round, only to open their doors to strangers one or two days a year for voting. The 2020 election cycle has been filled with anger, contentious debates, violence, and hostility across party lines. In this podcast learn how schools, even those with only staff present on Election Day, can take risk reduction measures for the safety of those inside.
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School security director shares insider lessons from her 20 years in school safety
School Safety Insider
Veteran school security director Tina Ingram takes us deep inside the challenges of being responsible for the safety of tens of thousands of students and school staff. What is the impact of COVID19? How do you manage school-based police and school to prison pipeline concerns? What makes a school security director successful in working with principals and central office administrators?
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Best Practices in School Safety, Security, & Emergency Preparedness during COVID-19
School Safety Insider
School safety depends upon reviewing best practices in school security and emergency preparedness during COVID-19. While school administrators and crisis teams have focused on COVID-19 reentry plans, school emergency plans and crisis teams must be reinvigorated as students and staff return to school. Are your school safety plans updated and aligned with best practices?
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Social-emotional school safety in COVID-19, school shootings, and teen suicide
School Safety Insider
Internationally renowned school psychologist Dr. Scott Poland discusses social-emotional aspects of school safety in COVID-19 safe school reentry, school shootings, and teen suicide prevention.
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School Resource Officers (SROs): School Safety and Police, Implicit Bias, and more
School Safety Insider
Why police in schools? Do School Resource Officers (SROs) improve school safety or lead to more student arrests? What is implicit bias and what is its role with school police? Mike Rudinski, a veteran school safety expert with the Maryland Center for School Safety, joins us for an inside look at SRO best practices.
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Communicating school safety in COVID-19 school reopenings
School Safety Insider
School safety expert Ken Trump shares lessons he has learned from post-school shooting contexts and his doctoral research on school leader communications on safety risks to parents. The difference between chaos and complexity, how our brains process in ambiguity and uncertainty, and tactics to break through stressed and overwhelmed stakeholder minds.
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Protests at your schools: COVID-19, civil unrest, and safety planning
School Safety Insider
Veteran school safety experts Ken Trump and Chuck Hibbert discuss security and emergency preparedness planning for protests at K-12 schools related to COVID-19 and civil unrest.
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How Contrarian decision models can improve COVID-19 safe school operational reentry planning
School Safety Insider
Veteran school safety experts Ken Trump and Chuck Hibbert discuss breakthrough how engaging Contrarian decision-making models, including Pre-Mortem and Red Team thinking, can improve COVID-19 safe school operational reentry planning. The discussion includes an analysis of K-12 Safety and Security, Transportation, Facilities, and Food Services reentry issues.
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School Safety Insider Podcast Introduction
School Safety Insider
What is the School Safety Insider podcast? Who should be listening? And who is this "Ken Trump" podcaster? Learn about a new podcast community where a 30-year U.S. veteran school safety expert leads you deep behind the scenes for an inside discussion of the hot topics, best practices, blunders, and politics of K-12 school safety, security, and emergency preparedness planning.
info_outlineSchool safety depends upon reviewing best practices in school security and emergency preparedness during COVID-19. While school administrators and crisis teams have focused on COVID-19 reentry plans, school emergency plans and crisis teams must be reinvigorated as students and staff return to school. Are your school safety plans updated and aligned with best practices?