School Crisis Management Research Articles

Development and reliability of the comprehensive crisis plan checklist

AbstractIt is of vital importance that children are educated in a safe environment. Every school needs to have a well‐developed crisis management document containing plans for prevention, intervention, and postvention. We developed the Comprehensive Crisis Plan Checklist (CCPC) to serve as a valuable tool that can be used to assist practitioners with evaluation of their school crisis management plans. To use the CCPC, school personnel should match the items on the checklist to elements in their developing or existing crisis plan to determine missing elements. By comparing a school or district crisis plan to the CCPC, practitioners or school personnel will be able to determine strengths and weaknesses of the plan as well as provide feedback for making their plans more complete and comprehensive. In this study, we describe the development of the CCPC and report on reliability data using this checklist. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

EDITORIAL: Crisis Management in Schools

"EDITORIAL: Crisis Management in Schools." Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, 27(3), pp. i–ii

An Investigation of Computer-Based Simulations for School Crisis Management

This article describes the research and development associated with creating a computer-based simulation used for training school personnel in crisis management. Specifically, the paper addresses the data collection and analysis involved in developing a simulated event, the systems requirements for the simulation, and a case study of application and use of the completed simulation.

A CLEAR Plan for School Crisis Management

A well-thought-out crisis management plan can mean the difference between crisis and catastrophe. Such a plan should be sufficiently detailed, but not too cumbersome to implement quickly. The authors believe the plan described here strikes that balance.