Communications
New SWAT tactics for school shootings
New training and technologies allow schools to help SWAT teams quickly neutralize active shooters and rescue hostages.
NYC students and parents offered free school-based email accounts
K-12 learning technology company ePals will provide its secure web-hosted SchoolMail service to the New York City Department of Education at no cost for five years beginning in the 2010-2011 school year....
School Crisis Communications
School districts should integrate incident management into their education basics with a combination of technology, partnerships and training....Purdue University to simulate emergency to test response
The exercise will simulate an assault by armed gunmen involving multiple buildings, a scaled-down version of the Virginia Tech tragedy in 2007, and will test police, EMS, communications, and the Purdue Alert system....
Douglas County Sheriff Introduces Next-Generation School Safety
Douglas County is the first in a major U.S. market to widely deploy interoperable communications to improve school safety. ...Schools Find Role in National Emergency Communications Plan
Pueblo County, Colorado launched a new two-way radio training program for all school staff on Monday, and became the first in the nation to align school safety plans with the NECP....
Columbine Author Tours U.S. School Shooting Sites
Jeff Kass will lead town hall forums that aim to promote a national conversation, and propose answers...."April Showers" Educational Distribution Model Unveiled at Cannes Film Festival
IndieFlix CEO Scilla Andreen highlighted her company's premium packaging of Andrew Robinson's film based on the Columbine tragedy in 1999....Responsible Media Coverage of Crisis Events Impacting Children
Emphasize steps that schools and families have taken to move toward healing, and ongoing intervention and prevention programs that support children's coping skills....
