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How universities prepare new teachers to handle the aftermath of tragedies

Some of Wisconsin’s newest teachers have only had their degrees or teaching certificates for a few weeks. As they plan for what their classrooms will include in the fall, many are also preparing for what they would do if tragedy were to strike their school. That’s something they’re prepared to do, according to Tom Owenby, a teaching faculty member in secondary social studies at UW-Madison. He said the university broadly teaches education students what they should do if there’s a school shooting once they are teaching full-time