Evaluating your response

  Evaluate each crisis response with a report to the superintendent and a plan for follow-up. For example, did you:

• Notify the appropriate people at the onset?
• Activate resources immediately to meet the needs of the students, families and staff?
• Provide regular information updates and maintain open communication with teachers, other staff and parents?
• Monitor rumors and maintain timely, accurate information?
• Speak through one spokesperson to provide factual information to the media?
• Develop media messages that communicated ways that parents can support the recovery of their children?
• Provide mental health resources for those in emotional distress and identify and follow up with vulnerable students and staff during the recovery period?
• Identify during the aftermath any cues that could be traumatic reminders of the crisis and monitor behaviors among students and staff?