School Safety - Penncrest School District

School Safety & Security Overview

Purpose

Prevention - the capabilities necessary to avoid, deter, or stop an imminent crime or threats.

Protection - the capabilities to secure our schools against acts of violence and manmade or natural disasters. Protection focuses on ongoing actions that protect students, teachers, staff, visitors, networks, and property from a threat or hazard.  

Mitigation - the capabilities necessary to eliminate or reduce the loss of life and property damage by lessening the impact of an event or emergency. Mitigation also means reducing the likelihood that threats and hazards will happen.  

Response - the capabilities necessary to stabilize an emergency once it has already happened or is certain to happen.

Recovery - the capabilities necessary to assist schools and individuals affected by an event or emergency in restoring the learning environment.  

Plan Tenets

1. Student, Staff and Visitor Safety

a. Raptor visitor management system in all schools

b. All employees wear identification badges

c. All visitors sign in and receive a visitor’s badge

d. Drills:

i. Emergency Weather drill (1 annually)

ii. Enhanced Lockdown drill (2 annually)

iii. Fire drill (9 annually)

iv. Emergency Bus Evacuation drill (2 annually)

v. School Evacuation (1 annually)

2. Facility Security

a. Annual safety inspections: rigging inspections, fire alarm system, fire extinguishers, fire hydrant test, AED battery check, emergency power generators, elevators, boilers (2 years), AHERA (3 years)

b. Annual Safety Assessment

c. Biennial Emergency Responders Meeting

d. All schools have security cameras, secure and single-entry points, security systems and function lockable exterior doors

e. Lockable classroom doors

3. Professional Development & Training

a. Athletic Coaches

i. Act 114, Act 15 & Act 34

ii. Mandated Reporter Training

iii. PIAA Coaching certificate

iv. Heat Acclimation

v. Concussion Management

vi. Sudden Cardiac Arrest

b. All Staff

i. Mandated Reporter Training

ii. ALICE training

iii. Act 168, Act 114, Act 151, Act 34

c. Volunteers

i. Act 114, Act 15 & Act 34

ii. Mandated Reporter Training

d. Targeted Trainings (not exhaustive list)

i. ServSafe

ii. Crisis Communications

iii. NIMS certification (FEMA)

iv. Student Assistance Program (SAP/eSAP)

v. HazCom

vi. Asbestos awareness/identification

vii. Non-violent Crisis Intervention (Crisis Prevention Institute)

viii. Ukeru

ix. Suicide Prevention

4. Education & Programming

a. Alcohol, Tobacco and other Drug education (ATOD) (K-12)

b. Alternative Education Program

c. Cyber Safety

d. Digital Dangers

e. Suicide Prevention

f. School-based out-patient therapy offer in all buildings

g. Positive School Wide Behavior Support Program (K-12)

h. Student Assistance Program (SAP/eSAP) (K-12)

i. Fire safety

j. Dating violence education

k. Texting/Driving (9-12)

l. DUI program (9-12)

5. School Policy and Local/State/Federal Compliance

a. Emergency Management & Emergency Operations and Procedures

i. Accessible to County and State Emergency Response Agencies

ii. Commonly referred to as an All Hazards Plan, public document

iii. Functional annexes contain specific and detailed information, not a public document

iv. Updated every summer or as necessary

v. Natural, technological and biological hazards

vi. Adversarial, Incidental & Human-caused Threats

b. All employees and volunteers must have clearances no older than 36 months

c. Act 44, 68 and 168 compliant

d. Annual Safe Schools Report

e. Policies designed to keep our students safe (not exhaustive list)

i. 121 Field Trip Volunteers

ii. 247 Hazing

iii. 248 Unlawful Harassment

iv. 249 Bullying/Cyber Bullying

v. 317 Conduct/Disciplinary Procedures

vi. 317.1 Educator Misconduct

vii. 348 Unlawful Harassment

viii. 916 Volunteers

f. Child Internet Protection Act (CIPA) compliant

g. Child Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) compliant

6. Personnel, Partnerships & Committees

a. Personnel

i. Nurse in every school

ii. School Counselors available at all schools

iii. School Psychologists at each Campus

iv. Outside counseling available at secondary schools

v. SOAR & ROAR

b. Committees

i. School Board Committee Safety & Security

ii. District Safety Committee

iii. School Safety/Crisis Teams

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Plan Tenets

1. Student, Staff and Visitor Safety

2. Facility Security

3. Professional Development & Training

4. Education & Programming

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6. Personnel, Partnerships & Committees

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