In All Clear: Lessons from a Decade Managing School Crises, safety expert Chris Joffe shows district and school leaders how to create safety in school environments and develop a plan for responding effectively in the event of emergency—whether it be from an allergy attack or an active shooter.

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Intro -- Table of Contents -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I: The Crisis Experience -- 1 How We Experience Crises -- What Is a Crisis? -- Notes -- 2 Finding Solid Ground When Crisis Emerges -- Practice Makes Permanent-Tool # 2 -- Notes -- 3 My Experience with Crisis -- A Shaken Sense of Safety -- Loss, Confusion, and Grief -- Tackling the Paralysis of Fear -- Seeing My Trauma in a New Light -- The Challenges We Collectively Have Yet to Overcome -- We Are More Alike than We Are Different II: What All Emergencies Have in Common -- 4 The Common Threads of Emergency Response -- Physical Safety -- Psychological Safety -- Communication -- Leadership -- What's the Point? -- Notes -- 5 Analyzing Risk -- 6 Preventing Crisis through Relationships -- Notes -- 7 Organizing Teams, People, and Resources to Respond -- Incident Command System -- Incident Commander -- Quick Tip on Incident Commanders -- Search and Rescue -- First Aid & Triage -- Crisis Counseling -- Attendance and Assembly -- Reunification -- Team Leadership -- "First On" Leadership -- Notes III: The Seven Circles: A Framework for Emergency Response and Recovery -- 8 Initiation -- Notes -- 9 Activation -- How We Make the Most of the First Seven Minutes -- Why Seven Minutes? -- 800 Numbers -- Role of Armed vs. Unarmed Security -- The Exception to Practice Makes Permanent -- Notes -- 10 Response -- 11 Assessment -- So Then, What Does Long-haul Preparation Look Like? -- Food, Water, Sanitation -- Strategy Is an Interesting Dilemma -- Returning to Community and Routine -- Communication -- Notes -- 12 Recovery -- Goal -- Creating the Recovery Pathway -- Agency -- Notes -- 13 Rebuilding Implementing Progress/Learnings -- The Media -- Note -- 14 Restoration -- A Grade Span Is a Lifetime in K-12 -- Restoration Is Not Replacement -- Cyclical Orgs Will Renew Trauma Cyclically -- Schools Are Learning Organizations That Promote Discovery -- The Legal System Takes Time -- Notes -- Conclusion -- The Obstacles to the Job Are the Job -- Note -- Appendix -- Index -- End User License Agreement