Table of Contents

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Part I: How Did we Get Here?
1 Lockdown Drills as a School Safety Phenomenon 3
2 Why Lockdown Drills? A Look at How we Got Here 15
3 What are Lockdown Drills? Differentiating Drills and Exercises 33
4 Should we or Shouldn't we? Arguments For and Against Lockdown Drills 49
Part II: What does the Research Say?
5 For Students: Are we Training or Traumatizing? 63
6 For Faculty and Staff: Building Cooperation and Collaboration 77
7 Teaching the Steps of Lockdown: More than Just Drilling 91
Part III: Policy and Best Practices 
8 How Should we Think about Lockdown Drills? Guidance and Best Practices 105
9 Lockdown Drills: A Piece of the School Safety Puzzle 127
10 The Future of Lockdowns and Other Emergency Preparedness Drills 139
Appendix: Annual Drill Requirements by State for Lockdowns or Other Emergencies 151
Notes 165
Essential Readings 201
Index 205

About the Author

Jaclyn Schildkraut is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at SUNY Oswego.

Amanda B. Nickerson is Professor of School Psychology and Director of the Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention at the University at Buffalo SUNY.