School safety leadership: Sometimes meaningful school safety may mean doing less, but doing that which you choose to do thoroughly, effectively, and with fidelity of implementation in mind. This process starts with considering what fidelity of implementation would look like before you ever make the decision to add something new to your school and school safety systems in the first place.| School Security
Strategic school safety leaders recognize the importance of first graduating from kindergarten before grasping for PhD school security solutions. Focusing on mastering the fundamental core school security mission and functions should be every school leader’s goal. For the past half dozen or so years, we have emphasized the importance of mastering the fundamentals of school […] The post School safety leaders: Focus on your core school security mission and functions (Lessons from recent Sec...| School Security
Sheriff Grady Judd, a Commissioner on the Florida school safety commission created after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (Parkland) school shooting, said last week that a new law requiring classroom doors to be locked when students are present is impossible to comply with without exceptions and the validity of the exceptions can be difficult […] The post Growing legal school safety mandates and proposed consultant/vendor-driven school security “standards” may mean well, but man...| School Security
Retired? Briefl Hired? Fired? Strategic school safety leaders look deeper at job titles used by vendors. The latest marketing trick security product and tech vendors pull on school leaders is to have salespersons staff ‘rebrand’ themselves by not using their vendor job title. Instead they put (ret) on a previous job title in a school […] The post Retired? Briefly Hired? Fired? Strategic school safety leaders need to look deeper at job titles used by security vendors appeared first on Sc...| School Security