Teachers need crisis-management training

School officials are banking on securing a federal grant that could arm teachers with information that will diffuse acts of violence in Howard County.

“Over the years, we have trained schools in crisis management and gang activity and hoped that it would trickle down to teachers and instructional staff,” school Security Coordinator Steve Drummond told a group of Hammond High School parents Thursday. “But we need teachers to have instructional training face-to-face where they can ask questions.”