There are some spaces that should be considered safe – churches, schools, theaters. Places that you can feel comfortable sending your children, knowing that they will be okay. We see from the headlines, however, that these sacred spaces are no longer off limits so the onus falls on those who are in leadership positions to ensure that those places are as safe as we can make them. Dahlgren School and other Department of Defense Dependents’ Elementary and Secondary Schools (DDESS) in the DoD Education Activity-Americas (DoDEA-Americas) roster, the administration and teachers alike have been participating in crisis management training to ensure that DoDEA staff are well versed in the full life-cycle of a crisis.
DDESS recently conducted a three-day workshop utilizing the National Association of School Psychologist (NASP) PREPaRE crisis management curriculum to ensure that Dahlgren School staff had not only the necessary information and tools in their cadre, but
