HISTORY - have we learned anything yet?

Is your State Prepared? Are Your Schools?

There have been Disasters that devastated whole school districts.

HURRICANE PREPAREDNESS AND DISASTER PLAN RESOURCES

Dedicated to the men, women and children who lost their lives; all those who sacrificed their lives; And to all the Heroes that responded to the emergency.

HISTORY - have we learned anything yet?
Are Your Schools Prepared?

There have been Disasters that devastated whole school districts. It's the largest student resettlement in the nation's history. Historians said that those twin challenges surpassed anything that public education had experienced since its creation after the Civil War, including the San Francisco earthquake and the Chicago fire. Schools welcoming the displaced students must not only provide classrooms, teachers and textbooks, but under the terms of President Bush's education law must also almost immediately begin to raise their scholastic achievement unless some provisions of that law are waived.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/07/national/nationalspecial/07child.html

TEACH K-12 SCHOOLS HOW TO BECOME A HAM RADIO OPERATOR

 

Do you know a Ham Radio Operator?
Become a Lifeguard
Guard our Airwaves
YOU can save lives
Emergency Communication http://www.arrl.org
GUARD OUR AIRWAVES - SAVE LIVES - LEARN MORSE CODE- Become a lifeguard.

Building or Retrofitting schools to withstand natural disasters and terrorism Developing emergency preparedness plans, and using school buildings to shelter community members during emergencies.

School Dirctory

Security: You can't prevent disaster, you can only prepare for it and mange it when and after it happens. It will happen. The only secure computer is a dead computer. The only secure community in a hurricane zone is a dead community.

American Academy of Pediatrics
Children, Terrorism and Disasters

Building or Retrofitting schools to withstand natural disasters and terrorism Developing emergency preparedness plans, and using school buildings to shelter community members during emergencies.

Read the Personal thoughts of the author of this tribute) Also see Can't Cry Hard Enough.

United Airlines Flight 93 was hijacked on September 11, 2001 near Cleveland, Ohio. and crashed in south-western Pennsylvania. The hijackers can be heard twice mistakenly transmitting messages intended for the passengers over the Cleveland ARTCC frequency. Please note that this tape is not chronologically accurate; periods of dead air (silence) have been removed for brevity. This file is nearly 4Meg in size. This audio is Courtesy of Airdisaster.com You can also here it here.4) Several Tributes located in one place.

Minute by Minute Pictures sucked off the WallStreetAtalia webcam

The Sonic Memorial Project - For Educators

HOW TO COMBAT HATE AND TRAGEDY

 

16 YEAR OLD AND OTHER ISRAELI AND ARAB CHILDREN SING IMAGINE TO PRESIDENTS

Listen to a message from the woodstock generation who's been there.

Through this Webquest, the student will be able to get a sense of the 1960s. The students will meet people, experience war, witness stunning scientific advances and absorb new ways of communication.

ABOUT HATE GROUPS ON THE internet and how to Fight it

Character Education - Online Database of character education resources and organizations

Media Literacy -Tracking an Internet hoax, learn to Evaluate News on the Internet
4,000 Jews, 1 Lie Tracking an Internet hoax. By Bryan Curtis Posted Friday, October 5, 2001 v Also see Mediachanel.org and Independent Media

Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) -
A "non-denominational, educational organization" that provides analysis of contemporary news reports of Israel and the Middle East, with a focus on exposing "anti-Israel propaganda." Access the analyses by name of publication, TV, radio program, journalist, or simply browse through the most recent reports. Find the background of different issues, special reports, and press releases.

The Shoah Foundation, dedicated to recording the remembrances of Holocaust survivors, is cataloging and distributing thousands of videotaped survivor testaments through digital asset management. The survivor videos are broken into segments with a customized back-end database; each segment is assigned one of 21,000 topic keywords, and then the testimonies are cataloged with lists of keywords, photos of survivors and their families, related documentaries, and textual descriptions. Roughly 5,000 out of more than 51,000 tapes have been cataloged thus far. In October, the National Science Foundation awarded the foundation $7.5 million to support a voice-recognition technology initiative. (Computerworld, 14 January 2002)

Anti Defamation League: Kids Do Experience Hate
with some practical exercises and a teachers guide. Again, much of the info overlaps the others but it is unique in having many statements from children experiencing fear or prejudice, and that may help your children feel more comfortable sharing their fears and experiences.Islamic Gateway http://www.ummah.com the online division of Muslim Directory Moving towards strengthening the online Muslim community globally.The Holy War Against America Holy War Goes Global for an Islamic view of Osama bin Laden and the Taliban. In 1998 Osama bin Laden issued a fatwa, a religious decree. It said that killing Americans-- "civilians and military -- is an individual duty for every Muslim…in any country." Osama's disciples have heard his words and obeyed.Q&A: Islamic Fundamentalism
http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1004/p25s1-wosc.html

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT RELEASES 1997 TO 1999 HATE CRIME STATISTICS
Sunday, September 23, 2001 202/307-0784 WASHINGTON, D.C.

UFT CREATES RESOURCE GUIDE TO TEACH TOLERANCE
In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the United Federation of Teachers in New York City has created a 50-page resource guide to help educators incorporate tolerance and respect for cultural diversity into their teaching. "We must educate our students so that they understand that the unspeakable actions of deranged terrorists cannot be blamed on every citizen living or having roots in the suspected terrorists' countries of origin," said Randi Weingarten, president of the union representing New York City's 100,000 public school educators. The guide, which includes sample lesson plans, also features chapters by organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League, the AFT and others.

Resources for Providing a Supportive School Environment for Arab Americans An Eric Digest created by the Clearinghouse on Urban Education in New York in 1999 reviews resources available to provide a supportive public school environment for Arab American students. The digest notes that while Arab Americans share similarities with other immigrant groups they also face additional challenges in public schools caused by negative stereotyping and misinformation about their history and culture. The digest offers steps schools can take in climate, elimination of discrimination, staff development, curriculum , textbooks, and counseling.The Jewish Education Center of Cleveland has a Response Curriculum to the Attack.

"Teaching about Tragedy"
National Council of the Social Studies (NCSS) is providing a free information service for educators designed to assist all teachers help their students cope with, and make sense, of the senseless.

High School - Higher Ed Stefan Bauschard collection of resources

TEACH INS - University of Toledo

Middle School Curriculum and High School Curriculum that uses the WTC to highlight issues regarding digital equity.

The American organization, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), has a 10-page fact sheet titled "Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters."
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/violence.cfm

Children and Responding to National Disaster Information for Children
http://www.nasponline.org/NEAT/terror_eds.html

The National Education Association has a Crisis Communication Guide
http://www.nea.org/01crisis.html

The National Association of School Psychologists has a coping guide
http://www.nasponline.org/NEAT/crisis_0911.html

Arab Americans Q&A A Changed World - Teaching Tolerance
Help your students better understand and gain respect for these special Americans. Arab Americans are U.S. citizens who trace their ancestry to or who immigrated
from Arabic-speaking countries in the Middle East. This site presents an overview of more than 100 aspects of Arab culture, including its origins, languages, demographics, customs, religions, politics and -- most importantly -- stereotypes. The pages are maintained by the "Detroit Free Press."

Global Crime Issues
This page serves as a topical information resource for users who are interested in areas such as transnational organized crime, international cooperation, and cross national studies. Global Issues features full-text review essays by International Center staff, papers from grantees, conference papers, and other publications and information products relevant to the interests of the International Center.

UN Wire is a free service sponsored by the United Nations Foundation and its sister organization, the Better World Fund, which are dedicated to supporting United Nations efforts on behalf of the environment, population stabilization and children's health.

4/9/03 Americans Liberate Bagdad - has been defeated, and the people celebrate their first night of freedom from Sadam Hussein after a decade of repression. CBS NEWS