School of Errors: Rethinking School Safety in America

by David P. Perrodin, Danny Woodburn (Foreword)

School of Errors establishes another voice in the discussion of how to promote safe schools. It challenges the unchecked expansion of school fortification and questions the realized benefit of inter-agency collaboration during a sentinel event. This book offers an alternative to traumatizing simulations by providing clear options for improving school safety by the empirically-proven effective measures of leakage detection (preventive) and sensemaking (reactive). School of Errors restores the scientific method to school safety and clears a path through the media rhetoric fogging this vital topic.

204 pages, Hardcover

Published August 7, 2019

About the author

David P. Perrodin, PhD, is the wrangler of nonlinear things that are impossible to predict or control. He’s an author, researcher, professor, and host of The Safety Doc Podcast. Dr. Perrodin is a speech-language pathologist specializing in psycholinguistics. David earned a doctor of philosophy degree in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he researched high stakes safety decisions in education, health care and military. He delivered two school safety presentations on PBS Television: "School Safety in America: Rhetoric vs. Reality" (2019) and "School Security and Crisis Preparedness" (2013), and also wrote and directed a film about school safety with Pulitzer Prize winner David Obst. Dr. Perrodin's work has been featured in, and cited by, numerous newspapers, journals, and broadcasts including New York Daily News, Phi Delta Kappan, Crisis Response, School Business Affairs, Spectrum News, Sinclair Broadcast Group and National Public Radio. He is the author of The Velocity of Information: Human Thinking During Chaotic Times (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022) and School of Errors: Rethinking School Safety in America (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019). David is an avid long-distance cyclist. MEDIA INQUIRY: david(dot)perrodin(at)gmail(dot)com

Reviews

[Renee Witke · Rating 5 out of 5]

School leaders,community members, and families need to read this book! We need to practice and understand the alternatives to active shooter drills in educational settings that instill fear. Fabulous book!