School of Errors: Rethinking School Safety in America

David P. Perrodin

doi:10.5771/9781475837469

Summary

School of Errors establishes another voice in the discussion of how to promote safe schools. It challenges the unchecked expansion of school fortification and questions the realized benefit of inter-agency collaboration during a sentinel event. This book offers an alternative to traumatizing simulations by providing clear options for improving school safety by the empirically-proven effective measures of leakage detection (preventive) and sensemaking (reactive). School of Errors restores the scientific method to school safety and clears a path through the media rhetoric fogging this vital topic.

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Edition: 1/2019
Copyright year: 2019
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4758-3744-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4758-3746-9
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 177
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Praise for School of Errors No access
3. Foreword No access
4. Preface No access
5. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 14
1. 1 How Thinking about a Bagel Can Get You through the Worst Day of Your Life No access
2. 2 Exploration Is a Kind of Safety Drill No access
3. 3 Situational Awareness via Sensemaking, Your Sword and Shield No access
4. 4 Legacy Knowledge No access
1. 5 Disasters Are the Real Snowflakes No access
2. 6 Another New Latin Word No access
3. 7 So What’s Wrong with Benchmarking? No access
4. 8 Why Comparing Disasters Feels Too Good to Be True No access
5. 9 One Variable, One Very Big Difference No access
6. 10 A Final Word on Schools and Benchmarking No access
1. 11 Fancy Drills Are Worse than Useless No access
2. 12 The Right Way to Conduct a Drill No access
3. 13 Other Options No access
4. 14 What Is a Tabletop Exercise? No access
5. 15 Video Boondoggle No access
6. 16 One More Don’t No access
1. 17 The Zen of Safety No access
2. 18 Incident Command Structure No access
3. 19 Tornadoes, Hurricanes, and the Fabulous Cajun Navy Relief No access
4. 20 Seeing Faces on the Moon No access
5. 21 Transitioning into Chaos No access
6. 22 Hobbes’s Leviathan Meets the Twin Towers No access
1. 23 Simulated Annealing No access
2. 24 Leadership Theories After Hobbes No access
3. 25 Legacy Knowledge, Distributed Leadership, and Rookie Teachers vs. Admiral Loy No access
4. 26 Summary of What We Know No access
5. 27 How Will Decisions Made in the Moment Be Studied? And How Will Future Decisions Be Directed? No access
6. 28 Bollards and Planters No access
7. 29 A Mile Wide and an Inch Deep No access
8. 30 Final Implications for School Leaders No access
Epilogue No access Pages 161 - 164
References No access Pages 165 - 168
Index No access Pages 169 - 176
About the Author No access Pages 177 - 177