A Critical Incident Planning and Development Guide.A school principal's job has always been complex, but in recent years the position has come to include preparing for unexpected catastrophes. Drawing on 22 years as an elementary school elementary school: see school. principal, Larry J. Stevens has prepared A Critical Incident Planning and Development Guide: An Administrative Handbook, a practical guide for principals as they create, improve and implement emergency plans for their schools. The book is also useful for district-level administrators as they prepare and standardize policies and procedures Policies and Procedures are a set of documents that describe an organization's policies for operation and the procedures necessary to fulfill the policies. They are often initiated because of some external requirement, such as environmental compliance or other governmental for use districtwide. Stevens develops practical crisis plans for 18 specific scenarios, including a bus accident on the way to school, bomb threat, gas leak The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. For other uses, see Leak (disambiguation). or noxious noxious adj. harmful to health, often referring to nuisances. odor, armed intruder An attacker that gains, or tries to gain, unauthorized access to a system. See attacker, intrusion and IDS. , missing child and death of a teacher. The author provides thorough discussion and a comprehensive checklist for each scenario, replete with planning worksheets, drill exercises, role-playing simulations and critiques of procedures. Part 1, Planning and Development of the Critical Incident Plan, contains preliminary questions about individual schools. The author's discussions relate to each of the 18 incidents and could be helpful to principals and others responsible for the development of such plans. Part 2 details critical incident drills and simulations. (A Critical Incident Planning and Development Guide: An Administrative Handbook, by Larry J. Stevens, ScarecrowEducation, Lanham, Md., 2002, 200 pp., $25.95 hardcover) George E. Pawlas Professor of Educational Leadership, University of Central Florida “UCF” redirects here. For other uses, see UCF (disambiguation). UCF is a member institution of the State University System of Florida. UCF was founded in 1963 as Florida Technological University with the goal of providing highly trained personnel to support the Kennedy , Orlando, Fla. |
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