On March 4, 1908, a fire erupted at Lakeview Elementary School in Collinwood, Ohio. Among the frightened students was 9-year-old Niles Thompson, who, in a desperate attempt to escape the flames, lept ...
When I first started working in schools, response drills for violent incidents were rare, uncomfortable, and often avoided altogether. Fire drills, on the other hand, were routine—scheduled, practiced ...