Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina

Tremendous presentation from the folks in St. Tammany Parish Public School System, of Slidell Louisiana. They showed a wonderful movie (DVD provided) of their experiences and gave everyone a Lessons Learned CD. Ideally, this summer we can find some time to focus on crisis preparation during SC meeting. Showing the movie and going over the lesson learned cd would be a great way to make this topic real. We also need to find time to do a presentation of the OpenCape.org project and some of the recent Red Cross/ Unite Way challenge activities. All are vital to our community's response to a crisis.

Talking about crisis preparation and response is needed to keep us all thinking about improving our response plans as well as to show just how important schools are to the fabric of a community. Big lesson learned from Katrina and Rita, if the schools reopen quickly the community does rebuild.

Schools as economic drivers becomes very apparent during these situations.