crisis plan paper

Throughout this course, you have explored the concepts of educational
leadership through creating and maintaining a safe school environment.
In addition to acquiring this knowledge, you have also considered how
to use your collaboration skills to cultivate and maintain
relationships with students, parents and guardians, stakeholders, and
community members.

For your Learning Outcomes Project, you will create a
crisis plan that will support a safe school culture and mobilize
resources to respond effectively to a crisis situation.

Taking on the role of the principal of a high school,
in Module 1 you analyzed the challenges of creating a safe school
environment and culture. In addition to striving to develop a safe
school culture, you must also be realistic about providing a crisis
plan for a worst-case scenario of violent intruders. Every school
district should have a plan for developing and maintaining an overall
safe and supportive school culture in each building. This means
striving to keep students, faculty, and staff physically and
emotionally secure in the day-to-day events in their school building.

The Learning Outcomes Project for this course is to
create a crisis plan. You can use the various resources provided to you
in this course’s readings, media, textbooks, and Discussions. You may
also use resources and knowledge from your own school setting.

For this Assignment, assume the role of the principal
at Grand City High School. You have discovered that a crisis plan does
not exist. All that exist are general comments in the district handbook
that state that the school buildings will provide a safe and
supportive learning environment for all students, faculty, and staff.
There is no specific plan for what you should if an intruder or
intruders decide to bring violence into a building. What structure or
plans need to be in place to respond effectively to a crisis?

As a starting point for your plan, review the crisis
plan in your own educational setting, which you can use as a reference.
For your Learning Outcomes Project, you may choose to update this plan
or create a new crisis plan.

Your crisis plan should include the following:

• Introduction: (approx. 1–2 pages)
  • Explain the purpose and goals of your crisis plan,
    specifically addressing how the plan will support a safe school culture
    and mobilize resources to respond effectively to a crisis situations..
• Body (approx. 5–6 pages): Using the template provided create the sections of your crisis plan as follows:
  • Describe your plan of action including the following:
    • Your crisis response plan including a crisis response team (e.g., assistant principal, director of guidance, other members)
    • Your plan for evacuating the school during the crisis
    • Your communication plan for notifying outside agencies (e.g., police, hospitals, counseling agencies)
    • Your communication plan for notifying parents/guardians
    • Your media communications strategy (e.g., how
      and when do you notify the media, in what area can they work, who
      addresses the media)
    • Your plan to incorporate community resources to assist students and personnel in the aftermath of the crisis
  • Explain how your plan will be effective in
    responding to and mitigating crisis situations and will maintain a safe
    school culture and minimize negative impact.
• Summary: (approx.1–2 pages)
  • Summarize the insights you gained as a result of
    creating this crisis plan and how you will utilize these insights to
    inform efforts in your own school setting.
• Reference Page: All scholarly resources must follow
  APA (6th ed.) guidelines. All references and research studies used to
  support the crisis plan should be evidence-based and scholarly in
  nature.