Dr. Clarence Johnson, retired director of Safe and Secure Schools in Aldine Independent School District, has been a career educator for 47 years. In his book, Managing Critical Seconds Before a School Crisis, he offers a plan to motivate principals, teachers, students, and all school stakeholders to achieve the highest level of success in safety in public schools in America. Managing Critical Seconds Before a School Crisis is organized for principals, police officers, parents, students, teachers, superintendents, school board members, and politicians to use as a tool to improve safety and eliminate the violent acts of the potential school shooter in public schools. The foundation for developing and implementing safety practices is documented by Dr. Johnson, an educator with 47 years of experience in America’s public schools, serving the final 11 years as director of Safe and Secure Schools. Dr. Clarence Johnson utilized his experiences as an assistant principal for ten years and as a high school principal for 14 years. He paints a picture of the guidelines that must be placed in a safe and secure school environment and addresses the specific safety features that must be in place for the 2019-2020 School Year. You can read and follow his guidelines in Managing Critical Seconds Before a School Crisis. The organization and framework of Johnson’s book, Managing Critical Seconds Before a School Crisis is based on a true story of a successful Safe and Secure Schools director who supervised 74 campuses and 60,000 students for 11 years. Dr. Johnson witnessed many facets of school safety and prevention methods prior to his assignment as a Safe and Secure Schools director. He speaks from a knowledge based on 36 years of service: a teacher of junior high school mathematics for 10 years, a high school counselor for two years, a secondary assistant principal for 10 years, a junior college site supervisor for four years, and a high school principal for 14 years. Managing Critical Seconds Before a School Crisis will recommend that we strictly enforce security and directions in every phase at the high school level and elementary level. Building a safe learning environment for our students is a top priority! Many challenges still exist and will continue to exist during this violent era in public education in America. Managing Critical Seconds Before a School Crisis will address how to meet these challenges! We, as parents, community leaders, educators, and first responders, will face this dilemma together and develop a security system that will allow peace and harmony during the time students are on campuses in our public schools. Listen to the voice of Dr. Clarence Johnson as his guidelines and specific targets speak loudly and succinctly to address school security in his book, Managing Critical Seconds Before a School Crisis.

Dr. Johnson has received many honors and accolades as an educator. In 1993, the one hundred hallway at Carver High School in Aldine Independent School District was named the Clarence Johnson Gallery of Fame in honor of Dr. Johnson. He was nominated and awarded the Region IV 1997–98 Principal of the Year Award (Houston, Texas) and North Harris Montgomery Community College District Scholars for Education Award (Houston, Texas) in 1996. He was recognized by Galilee Missionary Baptist Church Scholarship Ministry in Houston, Texas for Excellent Service to the Acres Home Community and awarded the Community Star Award in 2009. In 2015, the Prairie View A&M University Class of 1965 voted Dr. Johnson as Mr. Golden for the Golden Anniversary Football Homecoming Parade and Celebration. Dr. Johnson has written many articles during his career. As a doctoral student, he published eleven national-refereed journal articles in peer-reviewed journals. His articles are published in the National Forum of Educational Administration and Supervision Journal, National Forum of Teacher Education Journal, The Lamar University Electronic Journal of Student Research, and indexed in Education Resource Information Center (ERIC). Several of his articles are titled Immigration and Student Success: Communication Journey as a Learning Organization, Banning Cell Phones in Public School: Analyzing a National School and Community Relations Problem, and Impact of the Mathematics Curriculum on the Success of African American High School Students.