Michael Dorn, nationally known speaker, will conduct presentations to both Whitko High School and Whitko Middle School students Friday.
Dorn will be at WHS from 8 to 11:15 a.m. and at WMS from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
All Whitko students will be dismissed on a half-day schedule Friday. Dorn will conduct a presentation for all Whitko staff members at 1 p.m. at WMS.
Dorn is an international authority who will address school safety. He serves as the executive director of Safe Havens International Inc., a non-profit school safety center whose analysts have worked in more than two dozen countries.
During his 25-year public safety career, Dorn served as a campus police officer, corporal, sergeant, lieutenant and school district police chief.He was then appointed as the school safety specialist for the state of Georgia and later as the lead program manager of the Terrorism Emergency Preparedness Division of the Georgia Office of Homeland Security. Dorn was selected as the top school safety expert by Jane's, the British intelligence, defense and security publisher after an international search for the world's top school safety expert.
Dorn is a graduate of the FBI National Academy and has received extensive anti-terrorism training in the United States and Israel.
Having authored and co-authored more than 20 books on school safety, Dorn has been featured in more than two dozen school safety training videos, which are now in use across the globe. Dorn is regularly interviewed by national and international media organizations, including NPR, 20/20, CNN, Good Morning America, ABC, NBC, CBS, Time magazine, the New York Times, the London Times, Unavision and Tokyo Broadcasting.
