STOPPING VIOLENT STUDENTS QUICKLY, PROFESSIONALLY & SAFELY!
JUST THE OTHER DAY our district attorney responded to increasing student violence in our schools with a proclamation (printed in our local paper) that any teacher who intervenes in a fight(s) between...
View ArticleDe-escalate Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere, Part II
Teaching, I know, is an awesome and rewarding profession. My major was secondary education and I have done some high school and college teaching. But teaching (or training, which is what I have done...
View ArticleDE-ESCALATE ANY STUDENT, ANY TIME, ANYWHERE, PART I, ho0
Okay. I admit. This is a bold claim, true. But I believe it to be attainable. Doable. You can deescalate or defuse anybody, even any scene, any time, if you can follow my simple rules of...
View ArticleArticle 2
This is Part II of my post concerning our educational workplaces and the seemingly unending spate of ISIS-inspired massacres. In this post I thought I would talk a bit about what specifically schools...
View ArticlePRACTICING FOR LIFE OR DEATH ON AMERICA’S CAMPUS!
RESEARCH isn’t really required here, but it helps. I stay hard-wired to the proverbial Law Enforcement Loop, so I know that in the last decade we have averaged something like 355 (active) shooting...
View ArticleISIS AND OUR EDUCATIONAL WORKPLACES
Friday, November 13, 2015, ISIS terrorizes Paris by almost simultaneously hitting six soft targets, slaying over 153 innocent citizens (and scores of seriously wounded, many of whom may be added to the...
View ArticlePARIS MASSACRES: ARE WE NEXT?
Before you dismiss the above question as, Wait a second, Hammer, no schools were attacked in the Paris Massacres of Friday the 13th, consider the following: Every one of the five or six targets that...
View ArticleSURVIVING AN EDGED WEAPON ATTACK IN AND OUT OF THE SCHOOL
There have been a spate of edged weapon attacks in the news in the past month or so. Attacks against police, sure, but, worse, in my mind, are attacks against teachers, security, and other students....
View ArticleSAFELY SEPARATING SPARRING STUDENTS, PART II
IF YOU HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING MY POSTS ON KSS – and, if you have been, thank you – my most recent post was on the dangers of stepping in between fighting students with the intent of stopping a fight....
View ArticleSAFELY 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 7th graders who were beating...
View ArticleSAFELY 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 either a...
View ArticleManaging 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...
View ArticleActive 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 phenomenon,...
View ArticleWOULD 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 are a student (or, even a parent of a...
View ArticleDAMMIT! 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 posted that, “If there is a School,...
View ArticleA 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 into the school season and we haven’t had an...
View ArticleManaging 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 sight for Biting the Bullet. In that same...
View ArticleBITING 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...
View ArticleIF 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, and school...
View ArticleHIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION MASSACRE
I think it was just after the speaker called Austin Landis to come & receive his diploma that it hit me like a javelin to the back of the head. There was, what, 500 or so kids in blue and white...
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