SAFELY AND QUICKLY SEPARATING FIGHTING STUDENTS (DSM Training Has the Answer).

It was early in the school year in a nearby school district (Bethlehem, Pa.) when a rookie Special Education teacher - with the best of intentions- stepped in between two ...

SAFELY AND PROFESSIONALLY MANAGING OUT-OF-CONTROL STUDENTS

Be you a parent, sibling, teacher, administrator, security specialist, police officer, or a child care worker, more likely than not you have- or will - been confronted by a scenario involving ...

Managing Aggressive Students in and Outside the Classroom

 (SAB CONTROLI FIGURE, since I will be conducting a DSM (Disruptive Student Management) this summer, why not discuss one of the most vexing issues teachers, administrators, security staff and others ...

Active Shooter In Your Face – A Few Thoughts

Several things.  Since an Active Shooter Event explodes - literally - in our faces in the United States about every three months, and workplace violence is becoming an all-too familiar ...

WOULD YOU KNOW IF A RAGE SHOOTER IS CARRYING A CONCEALED WEAPON?

"Could you be able to detect if a person is carrying a concealed firearm?"  Not a question I think you should take lightly or pass over gently, especially if you ...

DAMMIT! REVISITING THE ACTIVE (RAGE) SHOOTER ISSUE

NOT THAT I AM SHOCKED, but, here we are, less than a month after I posted about the FBI Study concerning active shooters in America and maybe three months after I ...

A Look at the FBI Active Shooter Study, 2013

Nothing like being the angel of bad news, but, I believe it is far worse to bury our collective heads in the sand.  Meaning, here we are about a month ...

Managing Threats from Aggressive & Violent Children

You may have read my post on escaping and evading being bitten by a preschool child (3 to 5 years of age).  Doesn't matter.   If you wish, just peruse this ...

BITING THE BULLET!

For the last several weeks I have been consulting with a central Pennsylvania school adminstrator about how to safely and effectively manage serious aggression by students against teachers.  This in ...

IF THERE’S A SCHOOL, THERE WILL BE A SCHOOL SHOOTING!

Bold and disturbing words, I'm sure.  And no one hopes more than I that I am wrong.  That there will never be another school shooting, and somehow politicians, parents, teachers, ...