livingston
20×102mm Vulcan
AAR: ALICE Instructor Training (ALICE Training Institute), undisclosed location, 04/09/18—04/10/18
This review will be different from most of the other AARs John and I have written. Some backstory:
Regular readers of this blog should know by now that I am a special education teacher. The school where I currently work is a non-public special education facility. What this means is that we serve students with special needs from all of the surrounding school districts. In practice, this means that we serve those students the surrounding districts are not equipped to handle.
Last year, there was a changing of the guard at the top of the administration of this school, with a new executive director and a new principal coming on board. While the jury is still out among my peers about their leadership to date (educators hate change!), there is no doubt that their combined backgrounds in the public sector have them more willing than the old guard to put in place more “best practices”.
Immediately after the Parkland, Florida school shooting, an email was sent out by the principal that she was starting up a school safety committee. The purpose of this committee would be to identify the school’s needs in the area of security, particularly in light of the publicity of school shootings. I decided to go against my usual policy (never volunteer!) and asked to become a member of this committee. My feeling was that, as part of “the solution” I could perhaps obstruct any ridiculous ideas the other committee members might have.
At our first committee meeting, the principal informed us that she had been given—through a grant from a state government agency—four slots for staff members from our school to attend active killer training provided by a company called ALICE Training Institute. I could not resist and so volunteered to be one of those four.
Venue
The class was held on April 9th and 10th at a Catholic school on the edge of the city. Apparently, enrollment at this school is WAY down, so much so that we had entire wing of the school to ourselves, with several larger rooms that could accommodate all of the students as well as a hallway with some smaller classrooms, restrooms, etc.
More at ...AAR: ALICE Instructor Training (ALICE Training Institute), undisclosed location, 04/09/18—04/10/18
This review will be different from most of the other AARs John and I have written. Some backstory:
Regular readers of this blog should know by now that I am a special education teacher. The school where I currently work is a non-public special education facility. What this means is that we serve students with special needs from all of the surrounding school districts. In practice, this means that we serve those students the surrounding districts are not equipped to handle.
Last year, there was a changing of the guard at the top of the administration of this school, with a new executive director and a new principal coming on board. While the jury is still out among my peers about their leadership to date (educators hate change!), there is no doubt that their combined backgrounds in the public sector have them more willing than the old guard to put in place more “best practices”.
Immediately after the Parkland, Florida school shooting, an email was sent out by the principal that she was starting up a school safety committee. The purpose of this committee would be to identify the school’s needs in the area of security, particularly in light of the publicity of school shootings. I decided to go against my usual policy (never volunteer!) and asked to become a member of this committee. My feeling was that, as part of “the solution” I could perhaps obstruct any ridiculous ideas the other committee members might have.
At our first committee meeting, the principal informed us that she had been given—through a grant from a state government agency—four slots for staff members from our school to attend active killer training provided by a company called ALICE Training Institute. I could not resist and so volunteered to be one of those four.
Venue
The class was held on April 9th and 10th at a Catholic school on the edge of the city. Apparently, enrollment at this school is WAY down, so much so that we had entire wing of the school to ourselves, with several larger rooms that could accommodate all of the students as well as a hallway with some smaller classrooms, restrooms, etc.
More at ...AAR: ALICE Instructor Training (ALICE Training Institute), undisclosed location, 04/09/18—04/10/18
