Healing a Broken Heart : Evidence of a dark and weak Awareness
Teachers prepare buckets to keep students calm during lockout exercises. They hang shiny door curtains that can be quickly released to protect a classroom from a killer's eyes. They composed posters and pamphlets with handwritten letters to know what to do if a shootout were to occur. Details parents and teachers face how to create an inviting learning environment while ensuring classroom safety and preparing students for the worst?
Melissa and Jon Hardecopf are the owners of School Safety Solution, a company that produces Hideaway Helper, an industrial grade school created by an educator in 2013. It is no coincidence that School Safety Solution was founded after Sandy Hook. Second, school safety has been at the forefront of educational conversation.
«School safety is a big discussion and everyone thinks it's a shame, but everyone wants to feel a little bit better able to keep their children safe in their school. When we send our children to school, we all want to be comfortable with their safety and prepare teachers.»
Emily Grey is a school counselor in Seattle. She says feelings of fear and uncertainty borne from school shooting incidents can make kids irritable and more prone to violence and misbehavior. She created a free resource called "Healing a Broken Heart : Responses to Trauma and Shootings," a handbook of trauma-informed practices for teachers who want to help their students discuss their fears. It's available through Teachers Pay Teachers, an educational marketplace that features teacher-made learning materials. Grey published "Healing a Broken Heart" the day after the Parkland, Florida, shooting, and it has been downloaded by thousands of educators.
Teachers and parents always see reminders of potential violence and tragedy in a classroom filled with humanity and love. This dissonance was seen in stark contrast in June, when a parent published a photo of a hand-drawn locksmith nursery rhyme in his daughter's future classroom in Somerville, Massachusetts. This should not be suspended in a kindergarten classroom. Just as curtains should not be required to hide children from a killer, or teachers should not be trained to deal with deep trauma, or candies should not be used to alleviate the fears of elementary students who practice the silence necessary to stay alive.
After the countless number of school shootings and the increase we see in traumatized students at school, this FREE resource includes :
1- Guidelines for teachers & parents on how to respond after a trauma
2- Common symptoms/responses from students after a trauma
3- A processing activity that you can do whole class or with an invidiual
Responding to Trauma and School Shootings: Processing Activity and Guidelines : https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Responding-to-Trauma-and-School-Shootings-Processing-Activity-and-Guidelines-3654761
Although we would prefer that school closures not be part of the educational experience, it is unfortunately the world in which we live. As long as shootings are a reality in schools, their anticipation and prevention will also be done next to the scoreboard, right behind the door and never far from the mind.
So firearm safety classes and regular range practice along with courses for teachers and state granted firearms to be worn at all times for all teachers who qualify? Can't say that it would 100% but it sure beats turning off the lights, hiding behind a desk and hoping that the room you're in isn't chosen for target practice..................
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