Crisis Management Procedures
Waller Independent School District

The Waller ISD Crisis Management Procedures brochure is one of the many positive outcomes of the School Resource Officer program. In the 2000-2001 school year, at the request of Assistant Superintendent Richard McReavy and the Harris County Sheriff's Department, School Resource Officers Anthony Martin and Steve Underhill gathered together procedures for district-wide Crisis Management.

All Waller ISD schools had procedures in place but they varied from campus to campus and they only covered fire and tornado related situations. The officers took the existing campus procedures and standardized them, adding procedures from school safety workshops, school board policy, and their extensive law enforcement background to cover a larger array of crisis situations. The end result was a compact, self-indexed, neon-colored brochure as well as a more detailed administrative manual that included floor plans. The deputies introduced the brochure to all teachers, administrators, and aides in special training sessions held before the beginning of the 2001-2002 school year. 

Today, this brochure is within easy reach of every teacher, classroom aide, office aide, and administrator in Waller ISD. Any employee can go to any campus and apply the same procedures during a drill or a crisis. Any student can progress from one school to another and go through the same procedures during a drill or crisis. The Sheriff's Department and other local agencies have copies of the procedures.

The new Waller ISD Crisis Management Procedures brochure won a 2001 Texas School Public Relations Gold Star/Best of Category Award.

Contact Administration or any campus to view a brochure.