Assessing Threats

Professional Development Credit – This Micro-Credential may be eligible for continuing professional development credit in your state. Contact your state affiliate association to learn more.

Overview – Assessing Threats requires the practitioner to demonstrate proficiency of all the essential outcomes and the research-based subskills defined in the details. These include the abilities to: develop and implement policies and procedures to ensure effective and timely threat identification; develop and implement a collaborative process to identify, train, and support internal and external safety/threat assessment teams; develop a formalized system of assessing reported threats and support for students; implement a comprehensive student threat/safety assessment system; and provide a plan with strategies, implementation timelines, evaluation, and a monitoring process to establish best-practices in detecting and assessing threats to student safety.

Essential Outcomes – Assessing Threats includes the following 5 identified essential outcomes:

1. Develop and implement policies and procedures to ensure effective and timely threat identification.
2. Develop and implement a collaborative process to identify, train, and support internal and external safety/threat assessment teams.
3. Develop a formalized system of assessing reported threats and support for students.
4. Implement a comprehensive student threat/safety assessment system.
5. Provide a plan with strategies, implementation timelines, evaluation, and a monitoring process to establish best-practices, practices in detecting and assessing threats to assuring student safety.

Requirements

Part 1. Overview Questions

Develop a responsive narrative that answers the following questions (1,000-word minimum):

1. What was your role in the process to develop and implement the policies and procedures your school/district adopted to ensure effective and timely threat assessment identification?
2. What process(es) do you use to identify, train, and support the members of your internal and external teams?
3. How did you work with your team to collaboratively develop the formal threat assessment system, and decision-making protocols, to support your students?
4. How does your school/district formally/informally trained team members communicate the process and procedures to stakeholders?
5. How are the evaluation, monitoring, and implementation timelines utilized to assure best practices are followed assuring student safety?

Part 2. Skill Demonstration Product with Self-Analysis

Develop an artifact portfolio that captures the essential outcomes for the Assessing Threats Micro-Credential and complete the evidence self-analysis.

For each EO detail you will be required to reference an uploaded artifact(s) and guide the assessor to the specific evidence (page number, video time stamp, etc.) within the uploaded artifact(s). An explanation of how the evidence demonstrates proficiency of the outcome detail is also required. The practitioner must clearly and compellingly demonstrate proficiency of every detail under each essential outcome.

Part 3. Reflection & Application

Submit, in writing, a summary of your experience of Assessing Threats (500-word minimum) to highlight and provide specific examples of how you applied the five components of the threat assessment micro credential. This could include topics covered and how you have used the threat assessment in your school/district and the results of utilizing the adopted system. Include a reflection about the impact of this skill on your professional practice and how you will continue to apply it in the future.