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 7th graders who were beating...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleSTOPPING 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...
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