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Weird fact about me: I used to run a search and rescue group, so I have some background in emergency management. Here's one useful thing that I learned that applies to the challenges schools are facing 1/ https://twitter.com/educationweek/status/1253805974714023940
In the 1970s, firefighters in California developed an emergency management system to battle giant wildfires that spread over multiple jurisdictions. It is now known as the incident command system, and it's used to manage all kinds of emergencies. 2/
One crucial ideas, is that even when it seems like you are overwhelmed with urgent needs, there should always be people planning ahead. Anything that feels like it's an all hands on deck situation should really be some hands on deck. 3/
Looking for lost children and Alzheimer patients in the Virginia woods, when we arrived on scene, we'd send almost everyone out into the woods to look. Then you'd stick two smart people in a church basement, and have them plan ahead. 4/
You feed them new information every hour or so, so they don't fall out of the loop, but their job isn't to solve the crisis at hand; it's to predict what you will need the next day or the next week. 5/
In Incident Command terms, schools have put massive resources to Operations and Logistics. As soon as possible, school and districts should start setting aside people to work on Plans. What are all the new things we need to imagine for this fall? 6/
. @anya1anya has a nice piece today with 9 ideas for reopening schools safely: https://www.npr.org/2020/04/24/842528906/what-it-might-look-like-to-safely-reopen-schools?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews. Who in your school or district has the time to imagine what these might look like in your community? If no one does, then it's time for you to stand up you Plans group 7/7
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/24/842528906/what-it-might-look-like-to-safely-reopen-schools?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews
