Foreword / by Danny Woodburn -- How thinking about a bagel can get you through the worst day of your life -- Exploration is a kind of safety drill -- Situational awareness via sensemaking, your sword and shield -- Legacy knowledge -- Disasters are the real snowflakes -- Another new Latin word: psychological transference -- So, what's wrong with benchmarking? Critical decision-making in a nonlinear world -- Why comparing disasters feels too good to be true -- One variable, one very big difference: the internet -- A final word on schools and benchmarking -- Fancy drills are worse than useless -- The right way to conduct a drill: critical decision making in a nonlinear world -- Other options: tabletop exercises and focus groups -- What is a tabletop exercise? -- Video boondoggle -- One more don't: professional standards for educational leaders (PSEL) -- The zen of safety -- Incident command structure -- Tornadoes, hurricanes, and the fabulous Cajun Navy Relief -- Seeing faces on the moon: how Pareidolia helped the rescue system on 9/11 develop -- Transitioning into chaos: how increasing the "noise" increases options, up to a point -- Hobbes's Leviathan meets the Twin Towers -- Simulated annealing, or SA: how the human brain is specialized for improvisation -- Leadership theories AH (after Hobbes) -- Legacy knowledge, distributed leadership, and rookie teachers vs. Admiral Loy -- Summary of what we know -- How will decisions made in the moment be studied? And how will future decisions be directed? -- Bollards and planters: the terrible ideas that are coming to a school near you -- A mile wide and an inch deep -- Final implications for school leaders -- Epilogue: Nothing means anything to anyone until it means everything to you.
Summary:
School of Errors establishes another voice in the discussion of how to promote safe schools. It challenges the unchecked expansion of school fortification and questions the realized benefit of inter-agency collaboration during a sentinel event. This book offers an alternative to traumatizing simulations by providing clear options for improving school safety by the empirically-proven effective measures of leakage detection (preventive) and sensemaking (reactive). School of Errors restores the scientific method to school safety and clears a path through the media rhetoric fogging this vital topic. -- Provided by publisher.
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