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Food Allergies in School and Designing 504 Plans
Bobby Decker, Operations Specialist: January 30, 2020
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After A Wildfire: Hillside Erosion Mitigation
Bobby Decker, Operations Specialist: January 7, 2020
If you’ve engaged with any Joffe resources, articles, or blog posts in the last year, there’s a good chance you read something about wildfires. We...
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AED Maintenance for Schools
Bobby Decker, Operations Specialist: September 24, 2019
Automatic external defibrillators, or AEDs, are one of the most essential tools that school communities have to keep their people safe. As a brief...
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How Schools Should Handle Personally Identifiable Information
Bobby Decker, Operations Specialist: September 11, 2019
Privacy has always been a challenge and concern for schools, even before every single individual on campus began carrying powerful technology in...
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Elevating School Emergency Procedures with Visitor Management Systems
Bobby Decker, Operations Specialist: September 4, 2019
From our perspective, the most important goal or element in effective school safety protocols is knowing exactly who is on campus at any given time....
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School Disaster Preparedness: Earthquake Safety
Bobby Decker, Operations Specialist: July 16, 2019
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It Might Not Feel Like It, But...
Bobby Decker, Operations Specialist: June 11, 2019
It is absolutely normal to be concerned about things that are statistically unlikely to happen. Anyone watching me white-knuckle the armrest during...
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Recovery is A Ruff Process: Therapy Dogs and the Aftermath of Emergency on Campus
Bobby Decker, Operations Specialist: May 29, 2019
We’ve written before about how recovering from emergencies can be a long, complicated process. The hard work of rebuilding a campus and/or a...
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Keeping Students Engaged During Emergency Preparedness Drills
Bobby Decker, Operations Specialist: April 29, 2019
Emergency drills have become a controversial or at least widely discussed topic in school safety for a myriad of reasons. If done purposelessly or...