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Ep 10: Revisiting 'School of Errors' with Dr. David Perrodin
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Ep 10: Revisiting 'School of Errors' with Dr. David Perrodin

School safety is more than being prepared for a school shooting. A safety expert must understand natural hazards, fires, chemicals, drug overdoses, medical emergencies, fights, and deliberate attacks.

Host: David Riedman, founder of the K-12 School Shooting Database

Guest: Dr. David Perrodin, Professor at Viterbo University and author of School of Errors & Velocity of Information

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.

Purchase School of Errors: Rethinking School Safety in America (2019) for special price of $5.99 this month for listeners of this podcast.


David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.

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