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 Allentown, Bethlehem and Easton area but throughout Pennsylvania and neighboring New Jersey. As is his way, Tom decided to take bold steps. Together with Harry Wigder, a veteran PPCT (Pressure Point Control Tactics) Instructor Trainer of numerous subject control and self defense programs including Disruptive Student Management (DSM), Barnowski recruited, trained and certified a cadre of DSM Instructors with the objective of developing an elite training team to instruct teachers, security staff and other relevant educational staff on how to effectively manage student violence in a Tactically (techniques designed to work in real situation despite any size and strength differences between teacher and student), Medically (techniques are researched and found to have a minimal possibility of injury to the student) and Legally (courtroom defensibility) Acceptable manner.

This November, Barnowski led the first DSM training ever in northeast Pennsylvania, and very likely anywhere in the Commonwealth, in an 8-hour basic training at the Wilson Area School District, Easton. Pa. Two Wilson Borough Police Officers and PPCT DSM Instructors – E.B. Bud Shull and John Mazzeo – co-trained this inaugural training program. IT Harry “The Hammer” Wigder led many of the hands-on drills and exercises.

The eleven Wilson teachers and security professionals learned DSM threat management skills and techniques in the following areas:

  • PPCT Child Escort Controls.
  • PPCT (Fighting Students) Separation Techniques.
  • PPCT Physical Aggression Management Techniques.
  • PPCT Handgun and Long Rifle Disarming Techniques.
  • V.I.S.E. (Verbal Intervention Strategies in an Educational Environment).

ALL 11 of the Wilson Staff passed the final Practical Exam. The initial reaction to the training was positive and the Wilson Area School District has indicated it will likely ask for more DSM Basic Trainings for its staff.

“I am looking forward. We are moving forward on this,” Barnowski projected. “School violence is a real problem and I think this program can go a long way to making teachers safer, making our children safer.”

The NCC DSM Instructor cadre includes Barnowski, Mazzeo, Shull and Wigder, plus other very skilled and capable officer-trainers, including City of Bethlehem police officers Jason Fulmer, Chris Benton, David Strawn abd Sgt. Joe Gross. Northampton County Adult Probation Officer Bernie Mikulski rounds out the training cadre.

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