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Task 6 reading material

· Module 4: Leading Across the Incident: Preparedness, Response, and Recovery (Evaluation): the following areas of the commentary:

· Part I: Leadership Across the Phases:

· Leading for Recovery: Evaluation and the After-Action Review

· Part II: Responding to a Critical Incident: Engaging the Response Simulation

· Part III: Summary

· U.S. Fire Administration/Technical Report Series Special Report: The After-Action Critique: Training Through Lessons Learned  http://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/publications/tr_159.pdf

· Donahue, A. & Tuohy, R. (2006, July). Lessons we don’t learn: A study of the lessons of disasters, why we repeat them, and how we can learn from them.  http://www.hsaj.org/?fullarticle=2.2.4

· Jackson, B.A., Faith K.S., & Willis, H.H. (2010). Evaluating the Reliability of Emergency Response Systems for Large-Scale Incident Operations, Santa Monica, CA: RAND  http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2010/RAND_MG994.pdf  Chapter 6: After Action Reports p. 95-116.

· Garvin, D. (2000). The U.S. Army’s After Action Reviews: Seizing the Chance to Learn.  http://www.wildfirelessons.net/documents/Garvin_AAR_Excerpt.pdf

· Department of Homeland Security. Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation Program,  http://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/documents/32326

· Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP): Volume III: Exercise Evaluation and Improvement Planning:   http://montanadma.org/sites/default/files/HSEEP%20Volume%203.pdf