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School Safety

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. Raptor visitor management system in all schools
    2. All employees wear identification badges
    3. All visitors sign in and receive a visitor’s badge
    4. 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)

    1. 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)
    2. Annual Safety Assessment
    3. Biennial Emergency Responders Meeting
    4. All schools have security cameras, secure and single-entry points, security systems and function lockable exterior doors
    5. Lockable classroom doors

  • 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

    1. Alcohol, Tobacco and other Drug education (ATOD) (K-12)
    2. Alternative Education Program
    3. Cyber Safety
    4. Digital Dangers
    5. Suicide Prevention
    6. School-based out-patient therapy offer in all buildings
    7. Positive School Wide Behavior Support Program (K-12)
    8. Student Assistance Program (SAP/eSAP) (K-12)
    9. Fire safety
    10. Dating violence education
    11. Texting/Driving (9-12)
    12. DUI program (9-12)

  • 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

  • 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

    1. i. School Board Committee Safety & Security
    2. ii. District Safety Committee
    3. iii. School Safety/Crisis Teams

    1. Safe 2 Say Something anonymous report line
    2. Connect emergency notification system
    3. All classrooms have telephones
    4. All buildings and buses have UHF/VHF mobile radios
    5. All administrators have cell phones
    6. Crisis communication functional annex

Additional Safety Information