Evaluating Risk

1.

Instructions

In your main post:

• Explore the components of a successful threat assessment and risk management team model using USSS NTAC models.
• Create a best practices model for responding to and mitigating threats to schools in your community using USSS NTAC examples.
• Determine why the threat assessment process is a continuum.

2.

Instructions

In your main post:

• Describe sources of evidence reviewers used to complete their reports.
• Identify the intrinsic value that a threat assessment professional has lost as a result of the destruction of the Columbine basement tapes.
• Illustrate evidence of contagion of violence discovered by the reviewers.
• Discuss whether the Court’s ruling that sealing the evidence on the basement tapes away from the public, public review, or public inspection was prudent

3.

Instructions

In your main post:

• Describe how your local school board implements zero tolerance.
• Evaluate an example of one outcome of the implementation of zero tolerance in your local school system.
• Articulate why, based on your readings, the public might want to abandon these zero tolerance laws, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.

4.

Instructions

In your main post:

• Provide two explanations you found in your readings that explain the public’s misconception of schools being safe havens.
• Describe why parents are likely to ignore or miss pre-warning communications.
• Explain how your local and state boards of education address threat assessment in their secondary school plans