Your kid’s school principal has become an Emergency Manager
And probably the district superintendent, too. Should they be?
Take a good long look at what emergency preparedness, response, and even recovery responsibilities and ‘missions’ your kid’s school principal has on their plate now:
- Much more than just managing fire drills
- Behavioral Threats now must be assessed, managed, and mitigated
- Reunification after an incident — on-campus or not — is quite complex
And to make things even worse — in general — they are not trained, equipped, or tested — and neither are their superintendents and other administrators. They really should not be in an Emergency Management role. School Districts need their own Emergency Management teams. Emergency Management — not just school security — is holistic, professional, collaborative with local government, and much more.
Read more of this story over at our partner — The Center for Emergency Management Intelligence’s substack at www.TheCEMIR.org.
You can find the CEMIR on its own SubStack
The CEMIR’s own SubStack site has the following main sections:
- Primary (Home Page): Including research and analysis on Emergency Management Intelligence. All sections follow a POETE model to support the planning, organizing, equipping, training and exercising to increase use and capability for Emergency Management Intelligence.
- K12 Schools and Pre-K/Daycare Sites: Includes Emergency Management Intelligence items specific to public and private educational systems (those below the college/university level).
- Crisis Communications: Intelligence research, analysis, training, and exercise opportunities specific for crisis communications teams at any organization (corporate, non-governmental, and governmental — a whole-community basis).
- Archive: Access past CEMIR posts, articles, intelligence, etc., from the EMN can be found here.
The CEMIR collaborates with other authors from other Substacks to bring you the best for Emergency Management Intelligence-related content. Check out the “People” section of the CEMIR’s Substack ‘About’ page to learn more about other writers contributing to Emergency Management Intelligence.
Audio files from the CEMIR’s Substack can also be found on the following podcast systems (through an automated RSS feed):
- Spotify
- YouTube
- Apple
Please note that the audio may be AI generated, but the content is always human-created.
The URL for the CEMIR’s Substack is thecemir.substack.com
And you can find the CEMIR on social media: Twitter/X, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, and mastodon.social.
