Moving Beyond Duck, Cover and Hold On: Emergency Preparedness Guidebook for School Volunteers, Parents and PTAs

Widely publicized accounts of tragedy striking school campuses have raised the level of concern among parents, teachers and students alike. The unsettling events of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, Columbine High School in Colorado and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University have forced schools nationwide to shed their innocence, dispel their complacency about emergency preparedness, pause, and take stock. The crucial lesson drawn from those headlines is that sch...