Written in accordance with the Presidents 2003 homeland security directive and the Department of Educations guidelines and in response to the everpresent threats facing our school systems this book helps schools and institutions develop a comprehensive emergency response plan. This book outlines programs and procedures that can be applied to any school system to address hazard mitigation and prevention emergency preparedness and response and recovery and restoration of school functions to an effective learning environment. It describes specific actions and assigns responsibilities and response roles to district and individual school staff emergency teams cooperating agencies and community response partners that have agreed to share responsibilities and resources as defined in this plan. This book also outlines in the event of an emergency involving response by fire andor law enforcement the districtschool site personnel who should establish an Incident Command Systembased response organization in accordance with procedures outlined in the National Incident Management System. In addition the authors predetermine to the extent possible operational procedures across any U.S. school system and cooperating governmental private and volunteer agencies for responding to and recovering from any and all types of natural human or technologybased emergencies that may occur within school system operations or outside the jurisdiction of the school system but nonetheless causecould cause collateral impact to school system operations. Contents examine emergency notification and immediate actions concept of operations including first key actions partnering with community agencies and the initial briefing crisis management team action checklists response resources including personnel response team partners emergency evacuationreceiving facilities and emergency equipment and supplies emergency response flip charts for principals teachers secretaries and custodians district incidentspe