Keeping Our Schools Safe:
Reporting, Assessing, and Managing Threats
A Library 2.0 + LearningRevolution.com Webinar with Dr. Steve Albrecht
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OVERVIEW:
School violence is not a “new epidemic,” as some news media still like to call it. It has existed since before the 1999 Columbine High School shootings and will happen beyond the most recent mass incident in Uvalde, Texas. Every event only shows us how far we still have to go as a nation, as educators, as parents, as first responders, and as campus employees. There is no quick fix to stop these shootings. Arming teachers, giving children ballistic blankets, or installing metal detectors in every school are not reasonable, realistic, or cost-effective solutions.
The two ways to help prevent school shootings are 1) to use a team-based assessment approach to understand the pre-attack behaviors of potential perpetrators, and 2) to have threat management plans, protocols, and security approaches already in place. This starts with campus-wide awareness of threats and the mechanism in place for students, staff, teachers, and parents to report threatening language or behaviors to a team of safety and security stakeholders. It continues with having the courage to act quickly, decisively, and accurately, to interrupt those potential attackers who are “on a path from ideas to actions.” It can be done and it has been done, with success. This program will give you the insights into the most recent cutting-edge, best practices on preventing school mass attack violence.
This 60-minute overview session is for all school administrators, teachers, and employees. It is presented by Library 2.0 and LearningRevolution.com and hosted by author, security consultant, and threat assessment expert, Dr. Steve Albrecht. A handout copy of the presentation slides will be available to all who participate.
LEARNING AGENDA:
- Best practices and lessons learned from past and recent national school violence cases.
- Using the USSS Safe Schools and FBI research reports.
- Our response to threat leakage - verbal, electronic, and social media.
- The critical difference between Hunters versus Howlers in threat management.
- Staffing, training, and operating a school district-based Threat Assessment Team.
- The need for security tip lines, Incident Response Forms, and notification systems.
- Case study practice, using actual incidents.
DATE: Wednesday, January 25th, 2022, at 2:00 pm US - Eastern Time
COST:
- $99/person - includes any-time access to the recording and the presentation slides and receiving a participation certificate. To arrange group discounts (see below), to submit a purchase order, or for any registration difficulties or questions, email admin@library20.com.
- FREE for those on individual or group all-access passes (see below).
TO REGISTER:
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- Multiple individual log-ins and access from the same organization paid together: $75 each for 3+ registrations, $65 each for 5+ registrations. Unlimited and non-expiring access for those log-ins.
- The ability to show the webinar (live or recorded) to a group located in the same physical location or in the same virtual meeting from one log-in: $299.
- Large-scale institutional access for viewing with individual login capability: $499 (hosted either at Library 2.0 or in Niche Academy). Unlimited and non-expiring access for those log-ins.
ALL-ACCESS PASSES:
- All-access annual passes include unlimited access to the recordings of all of Dr. Albrecht's previous Library 2.0 webinars, plus live and recorded access to his new webinars for one year. These are hosted either at Library 2.0 or Niche Academy (if preferred).
- For a $499 individual all-access annual pass to all of Dr. Albrecht's live webinars and recordings for one year, please click here.
- Inquiries for all-access organizational contracts should be directed to admin@library20.com.
In 1994, Dr. Steve Albrecht co-wrote Ticking Bombs: Defusing Violence in the Workplace, one of the first business books on workplace violence prevention. The book featured his in-person prison interview with a double workplace murderer. Since then he has interviewed two other workplace murderers in prison, which has helped his understanding of how to help public and private sector organizations, K-12 schools, colleges and universities, utilities, aerospace, and hospitals to address threats of violence.
Using a Threat Assessment Team approach, Steve has trained thousands of school district and school campus employees in his awareness, assessment, and response protocols for threats that come to campus from current or former students, parents, current or former employees, or strangers.
He holds a doctoral degree in Business Administration (D.B.A.), an M.A. in Security Management, a B.A. in English, and a B.S. in Psychology. He is board-certified in HR, security management, employee coaching, and threat assessment.
Steve has written 25 books on business, security, and leadership topics. He lives in Springfield, Missouri, with six dogs and two cats.
His professional webite is at http://drstevealbrecht.com.
Praise for Dr. Albrecht
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