C3 Pathways / NCIER

10/31/2026

A Knox Box at the front of the building feels like the access problem is solved. Often, it isn’t.

Not every school has one, and the ones that do aren’t always kept current. Locks break, locks get changed, and the master key that opened every door the day the campus was new may not open them a couple of months later. When emergency crews need to get inside fast, that gap matters.

When was the last time anyone checked that the keys in your box still work? Watch the full episode for the rest of the conversation on school access and what it means when every second counts: https://youtu.be/u26XHGhkJiE

10/29/2026

Every parent knows the worry about whether their child is safe at school. So why would anyone want drills that put that fear front and center?

Bill Godfrey shares why fear isn’t a reason to skip preparation. It’s the reason to do it. He also draws a surprising parallel from a generation that grew up practicing drills of its own.

Watch the full episode to hear the whole conversation about what a plan really changes for kids and the adults responsible for them. https://youtu.be/u26XHGhkJiE

10/29/2026

What should schools actually prioritize to prevent and prepare for a school shooting? Kim Krawczyk was teaching math at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on February 14, 2018. In Part 2, she explains where she believes schools are missing warning signs, why she thinks repetitive drills can condition students instead of preparing them, and why the incentives behind school reporting can work against student safety.

For school administrators, teachers, school resource officers, threat assessment team members, and public safety trainers, this conversation challenges some common assumptions. Kim and host Bill Godfrey discuss whether teachers should hear simulated gunfire in training, what it takes for behavioral threat assessment to work, and why a school reporting “zero incidents” should raise questions rather than confidence.

In this episode:
🔹 Gunfire in training: opt-in or not at all? Bill weighs the value of staff learning what gunfire sounds like against the fear it can cause and asks Kim about new devices that reproduce the sound. Kim argues for opt-in participation, warning that requiring it of brand-new teachers could leave them “pre-traumatized.”
🔹 Kim’s top priorities. At MSD, the cameras were working, but no one was watching them. She calls for a trained, dedicated campus monitor, fewer repetitive student drills, more authentic teacher training, and taking teacher reports about troubled students seriously.
🔹 Threat assessment and the “zero incidents” problem. Kim says behavioral threat assessment can work only with handpicked, well-trained people who don’t dismiss red flags as “blowing smoke.” She also describes how pressure to look like a perfect school can leave struggling students without help.

💬 𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗖𝗨𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗤𝗨𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡: Does your school or district’s reporting culture encourage staff to raise concerns, or to keep the numbers clean? Share your experience in the comments.

🎧 𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗖𝗛 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗨𝗟𝗟 𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗦 𝗢𝗡 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗧𝗨𝗕𝗘:
Part 1 – What prepared a teacher for the MSD shooting: https://youtu.be/qT7nqXZLQPI
Part 2 - School drills, warning signs, and behavioral threat assessment: https://youtu.be/fPID4vPjT5A
Part 3 – Locking classroom doors, evacuation, and shared responsibility: Coming Tuesday 11/3
Part 4 – Reunification and why staying behind a locked door can be safer: Coming soon

🎓 Take the free one-hour SSAVEIM Foundations school safety course: https://ncier.org/ssaveim/foundations

📌 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗣𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗦
00:00 – Introduction: Kim Krawczyk, MSD shooting survivor
00:26 – Live gunfire and gunfire simulators in school training
03:06 – Opt-in, opt-out, and the risk to new teachers
04:45 – What would you have done?: The reality inside the classroom
06:54 – If you could wave a magic wand: Kim’s top priorities
07:51 – The cameras were working, but no one was watching
09:39 – Fewer student drills, more authentic teacher training
10:07 – Listening to teachers about early warning signs
11:13 – Behavioral threat assessment teams: what “done right” means
14:22 – Apathy and sweeping concerns under the rug
16:10 – School reporting systems and the “zero incidents” problem
19:17 – Are we incentivizing the wrong things?

What should schools actually prioritize to prevent and prepare for ...

10/28/2026

Silence doesn’t mean safety. For years, the cue to shift gears at an active shooter scene has been the end of the shooting. But what if that cue has been steering responders the wrong way?

Our instructors push back on a long-held assumption and change how you should think about the moments after the last shot is fired. For anyone who trains, leads or responds, this is a perspective worth sitting with.

Catch the full episode to hear the whole conversation and what it means for how we train. https://youtu.be/7gAUGylWCX4

10/27/2026

What actually prepares a teacher to protect a classroom during a school shooting? Kim Krawczyk was teaching math at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on February 14, 2018, and she credits the training she once dismissed as “hokey” with helping her stay calm and know what came next.

For school administrators, teachers, school resource officers, law enforcement trainers, and anyone who builds school safety programs, this conversation offers a teacher’s view from behind the locked door. Kim challenges the common approach of auditorium-style presentations and explains why classroom-specific preparation, realistic simulation, and the difference between training and conditioning can shape how people respond under gunfire.

In this episode:
🔹 Why one-size-fits-all safety briefings miss teachers. A gym, science lab, agriculture program, and math classroom each face different risks. Kim shares small details no training ever covered for her, like keeping student cell phones in the safe area and arranging the teacher’s desk to create a safe zone, and why walking teachers through their own rooms would make preparation feel real.

🔹 Conditioning vs. training. Kim describes students lining up at the door as if it were a fire drill instead of getting behind a closed door and explains why repeated monthly lockdown drills can leave students numb or dismissive.

🔹 The simulation that prepared her. Before the shooting, Coral Springs Police ran an exercise in a replica of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas (MSD) freshman building. Kim had experienced gunfire, fire alarms, cries for help, and door checks before the real event, so she knew what came next at every stage.

💬 DISCUSSION QUESTION: How does your school or agency make safety training feel real for the people in each individual classroom? Share your experience in the comments.

🎓 Take the free one-hour SSAVEIM Foundations school safety course: https://ncier.org/ssaveim/foundations
School Safety and Violent Event Incident Management

🎧THE FULL SERIES
Part 1 - What prepared a teacher for the Parkland shooting: https://youtu.be/qT7nqXZLQPI
Part 2 – School drills, warning signs, and behavioral threat assessment: https://youtu.be/fPID4vPjT5A
Part 3 – Locking classroom doors, evacuation, and shared responsibility: Coming soon
Part 4 – Reunification and why staying behind a locked door can be safer: Coming soon

What actually prepares a teacher to protect a classroom during a sc...

10/24/2026

The Rescue Task Force has been escorted into the Casualty Collection Point, and now it’s time to go to work. The decisions you make in those first few seconds set the tone for everything that follows.

The job starts well before anyone walks into the room. Whether you’re in fire, EMS, or law enforcement, this is the kind of thinking that’s worth hearing straight from someone who’s done it.

Watch the full episode to hear the rest. https://youtu.be/gauOfvXVua0

10/23/2026

21 responders walked into Hamilton County Emergency Management this week as students. They walked out as certified ASIM Basic Trainers, having completed ASIM (Active Shooter Incident Management) Basic Train-the-Trainer.

The course, hosted by Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office, means those 21 can now bring ASIM Basic training back to their own departments and regions.

One habit built into our scenarios: responders are trained to keep asking themselves two questions — what's important now, and what's important next. The first keeps you effective in the moment. The second keeps you from getting surprised a few steps down the road. Most of the delay in a real active shooter response isn't people doing the wrong thing — it's people doing the right thing a few minutes later than they could have. Now these 21 will be the ones teaching that habit to the next room full of responders.

Their certification is good for three years, and there’s no per-class fee to run it internally. Each one has the full instructor package – curriculum and lesson plans, the ASIM Checklist, scenarios scripts, and LMS access to enroll and track their own students

Big thanks to Hamilton County Sheriff's Office, FL for opening their doors and coordinating the training — this kind of certification pipeline doesn't happen without a host willing to put in the logistics work.

Interested in bringing ASIM Basic Train-the-Trainer to your organization? Click the link: https://ncier.org/asim/basic?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=s

10/22/2026

Introducing our redesigned SSAVEIM Train-the-Trainer: school shooting incident management training you don’t just sit through. You run it.

When a shooting happens at a school, educators, police, firefighters, and paramedics have to move as one team from the very first call.

SSAVEIM (School Safety and Violent Event Incident Management) Train-the-Trainer is where that team comes together, working hands-on scenarios on Counterstrike Terrain, our digital map table, using maps of their own schools. We moved most of the lecture online, so the two days in the room are spent doing, not listening.

And when it’s over, they don’t just go home trained. They go home certified to train others, so school safety keeps growing in their community for years to come.

Bring SSAVEIM Train-the-Trainer to your community. Tell us where, and we’ll call within one business day: https://ncier.org/ssaveim/train-the-trainer?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SSAVEIM-ttt-launch&utm_content=p1_launch

10/22/2026

In a critical incident, the instinct is to find the threat first. But there’s a cost to that pause, and it’s measured by the people already injured and waiting.

Adam Pendley explains the phrase he comes back to again and again, and why radio silence can be one of the most dangerous moments in a response.

Watch the full episode for the whole conversation on prioritizing actions when lives are on the line. https://youtube.com/live/NbApXhCQhVo

10/20/2026

It's one of the most consistent gaps we see: the ambulance loading area gets forgotten until it's needed.

There's a reason it's called the Ambulance Exchange Point (AEP) and not just a transport loading zone. It needs security, and securing it takes time. Wait until patients are ready to move before you start, and you've just lost 10 minutes you can't get back.

For fire and EMS, the takeaway is that the AEP may not be "cleared," but security measures can be in place to reduce the threat risk. Getting that set up early keeps transport moving.

Catch the full episode for more on coordinating security and patient movement during a critical incident. https://youtube.com/live/iXHgu7zomfo