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ASSESS & PROGRESS
Spotting & Stopping the School Shooter
Turning Good Student Threat Assessments into Great Ones
2-Day Training Course
of those who use Assess & Progress would recommend it to their friends and coworkers.
No skill is more important
than being able to quickly and accurately determine if a student who has made a threat truly poses a threat to himself and others.
Assess & Progress gives you the skills, materials, and confidence to assess, intervene, and manage a dangerous student and to guide your school community to respond quickly, safely, and appropriately to shut down that threat.
You may be the last person who has a chance to prevent the next school shooting...but only if you're ready.
It doesn’t matter if you already have procedures.
Assess & Progress is the answer.
It can be used as a stand-alone system or integrated seamlessly into your existing approach.
Proven. Effective. Better.
Assess & Progress has helped to prevent school attacks and win a supreme court victory!
Success Story:
Keith, School Resource Officer
“Thank you! Because of you and what you taught us, we were able to stop a school shooting. The materials you provided as well as the right perspective and understanding of the path to violence were incredibly beneficial. With it we were able to stop the student and win the case in the state Supreme Court.”
Course Details
Length: 2-days
Credit Hours: 14
Course Certificate: Yes
Who Should Attend:
- SROs/SRO Supervisors
- Superintendents
- Principals
- Counselors/Social Workers
- Deans of Students
- Directors of Safety
- Chief of Police/Sheriffs
- Threat Assessment Coordinators
- Security Officers
- Safety Team Leader/Members
- Teachers
Questions or to host a course call 540-577-7200
Why Your Schools Need
Assess & Progress
Most schools are trained to identify a threat.
That satisfies the procedural requirement for a threat assessment, but it leaves a dangerous gap forcing schools to ask:
• What do we do now?
• How do we manage this student tomorrow, next week, or next year?
• How do we involve parents without escalating fear or conflict?
• How do we reduce risk without stigmatizing the student or damaging trust?
This is where current threat assessments fall short.
They are designed to identify danger, not to manage it over time.
They focus on classification, not intervention, growth, and follow-through.
And they often create fear, confusion, and division instead of clarity and direction.
Assess & Progress closes this gap.
| Current Threat Assessments | Assess & Progress |
|---|---|
| Current Threat Assessments Limited to immediate threats of violence | Assess & Progress Addresses immediate threats while building long-term safety and prevention |
| Current Threat Assessments Only punishment-focused | Assess & Progress Punishment, consequences, growth-focused, and relationship-centered |
| Current Threat Assessments Police model built for quick assessment and moving on to next call | Assess & Progress Retains the police assessment model but adds long-term intervention and management |
| Current Threat Assessments Little or no value to the student; done to them, not with them | Assess & Progress Invaluable to the student because they can fully participate, developing lifelong skills to resist using violence |
| Current Threat Assessments Prioritizes identifying problems | Assess & Progress Prioritizes identifying problems AND solutions |
| Current Threat Assessments Confusing for parents, increasing anxiety and limiting their ability to help | Assess & Progress Parent Guides and Worksheets reduce anxiety and enable parents to fully help |
| Current Threat Assessments Pits schools against students and parents against schools, damaging relationships | Assess & Progress Strengthens parent-school relationships by uniting families and schools around shared goals |
| Current Threat Assessments Inflexible — stops when threat is determined, leaving everyone unsure what to do next | Assess & Progress Highly flexible — provides rapid, ongoing guidance until the student is no longer a threat |
| Current Threat Assessments Conditions schools to see every behavior as a threat, raising fear and anxiety | Assess & Progress Conditions schools to think holistically about students and behavior, lowering fear |
| Current Threat Assessments Stigmatizes students and families — schools are not designed for this approach | Assess & Progress Stigmatizes no one — helping students grow (progress) is what schools do best so it feels more natural |
| Current Threat Assessments Provides threat assessment mechanisms and little else | Assess & Progress Provides threat, intervention, management, and growth mechanisms |
Course Topics
This fast-paced, in-depth training combines instruction, discussion, and a comprehensive practical application on the second day.
DAY ONE: 8:30-3:30
- Why kids kill and the psychology behind school attacks.
- Myths that hinder effective violence prevention.
- Commonalities among school attackers.
- Hard lessons learned from the worst school attacks
- Common danger signs indicating an impending attack.
- Assessing student behaviors and determining risk levels.
- Predicting future student behavior and calculate potential risk
- Distinguishing normal behavior from actual threats
- Making rapid and confident snapshot assessments
- Utilizing Assess & Progress Student Safety Assessment worksheets
- Using the Path to Violence model to gauge risk and proximity to using violence
- Building growth and intervention plans
DAY TWO: 8:30-3:30
- The 4 Categories of Life: Quickly identifying whether a student is Unsafe, Struggling,
Satisfactory, or Strong - Help students evaluate themselves using Assess & Progress Student Worksheets.
- Support parents with the Parent Guide and growth worksheets.
- Define thresholds and actions for setbacks in behavior or growth.
- Communicate clearly with staff, parents, and media about assessments and progress.
- Reintegrating suspended or expelled students safely
- Supporting families with guides and collaboration tools
- Preventing stigmatizing students or alienating families
- Guarding your own emotional well-being when conducting threat assessments
- Protecting your school and yourself from civil liability
What's Included
- On-call support for urgent threat assistance
- Electronic copies of classroom materials and permission to print worksheets
- Assess & Progress Student Safety Procedures
- Snapshot Assessment Worksheet
- Student 4 Categories of Life Worksheet
- Teacher 4 Categories of Life Worksheet
- Parent 4 Categories of Life Worksheet
- Interview Worksheets (Student, Witness, Parent)
- Search Worksheets
- Parent Guide
- Path to Violence Worksheet
- Current Assessment Worksheet
- Intervention & Management Worksheet
- 5 Page Master Assessment Worksheet
3 free seats
Bring Assess & Progress
to your area and receive 3 free seats.
All you have to do is provide a trainings space, advertise via your established network, and we'll do the rest.
We create the flyer, registration page, help advertise, and we process those who sign up.
There’s no cost to host unless you choose to send more than your 3 free seats.
What's the secret of Assess & Progress?
After 30 years of witnessing violence, redemption, failure, and success in the lives of young people, one truth stands out...
Every student is living in one of 4 Categories of Life and their risk, happiness, or potential for harm is directly tied to which one.
Strong students don’t use violence.
Unsafe students don’t have to stay that way.
We’ll show you how to quickly assess where a student is and give you the
tools to help them progress to a safer, healthier category.
Fee
$495
Per Person
Register 3 and receive 1 Free Seat
Included:
- 2-days of instruction
- Ready Made Materials
- Complete Assess & Progress Program
- Course certificate
- Travel Expenses
- One Year of Ongoing Support
- On-call support for urgent threat assistance
- Prompted reminders to maintain focus and follow-through
- Staff Development Opportunities (video or phone)
