In this article, the author discusses the creation of a threat-assessment team to be utilized in order to analyze each threat and the usage of threat-assessment protocols for the purpose of guiding school administrators through a crisis. These are actually developed with the advice from the US Department of Education and the Secret Service. When a bomb threat is reported, for example, school officials immediately call the police bomb squad, says Roddie Miller, who serves as the district's project administrator for school safety. Meanwhile, teachers make a quick search of their classrooms. With regard to the local school boards, the challenge which faces them today is for them to build on this progress which has been made and to ensure that staff training, policies, and procedures are ready for the challenges which lie ahead.