RECOGNIZING AND RESPONDING TO WARNING SIGNS OF SCHOOL VIOLENCE. Part I.

THE FAILURE OF our elementary, secondary and college school systems to recognize and respond to warning signs is one of the saddest stories behind the alarming increase in catastrophic violence.  ...

Pennsylvania Community College Conducts Pennsylvania’s First Ever Disruptive Student Management Training

TOM Barnowski, Director of the Emergency Services Training Center, Northampton County Community College (NCC), Bethlehem, Pa. campus, was troubled by a marked increase in school violence, not only in the ...

THE WAY NOT TO HANDLE DISRUPTIVE STUDENTS

ODD for me to use a “How NOT To” in a posting title, but I assure you, in this case it fits.  The “case” I speak of involves a local ...

DISRUPTIVE STUDENT VIOLENCE (DSM): SEPARATING FIGHTING STUDENTS, PART III

In Part One I addressed the deleterious affects SNS activation (under combat stress conditions) can have on a student’s ability to see, hear, sense and process consequences. In Part ...

Disruptive Student Management: On Separating Fighting Students. Part II.

In my first posting I discussed the Principles of (Student) Separation, focusing mostly on the psychological and physiological implications of SNS (Sympathetic Nervous System) activation , including the loss of ...