Gary ChesterDistrict 300

Safety Officer

Office: 847 551-8365gary.chester@d300.org

School SafetyStaff / Students / Visitors

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Expectations2

CONSISTENCYPARTNERSHIPS

TRAININGSAFETY PROCEDURES

School SafetyDistrict 300

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District-Wide Consistency

TerminologySafety Procedures – Protective

ActionsCrisis ManagementStaff Training Police & Fire Response to our Schools

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Partnerships – Law Enforcement

11 Police Agencies Service D-300 4 Emergency Dispatch Centers Law Enforcement Summit with Schools

~ Police / 911 Centers / CUSD 300

~ Inform law enforcement of school staff response to a violent intruder in our schools – what we train our staff to do in a crisis event

~ Discuss police response to our schools and how they train their officers to crisis response in our schools – Rapid Deployment Tactics

~ Discuss mutual aid and response – multiple police agencies

Established contact points between police and schools Police participation with all schools during our lockdown drills

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Partnerships – Fire Service

6 Fire District Agencies Service D-300 4 Emergency Dispatch Centers Fire Department Summit with Schools

~ Fire / 911 Centers / CUSD 300

~ Inform fire service of school staff response to a violent intruder in our schools – what we train our staff to do in a crisis event – fire/tornado/violence

~ Discuss fire response to our schools during a crisis event; fire suppression, medical response and mass casualty deployment

~ Discuss fire mutual aid and police response in violent events

Established contact points between fire and schools Fire participation with all schools during our fire drills

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TRAINING

Training our school staff: (every year/school/staff) Crisis Response: fire/toxic building, weather

emergencies and violence in the schools. Protective actions in the school and in the classroom Crisis Response : physical and psychological response for educators

Full Time Staff of all 26 schools (teachers/administrators/support)

Induction Academy – (new employees)Substitute Teachers – required training (1,000+ trained)Bus DriversFood Service StaffSecretarial Office Staff of each building

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Disaster• Natural

Event

• Tornado• Storms• Fire

ProtectiveAction

• Tornado Drill• Fire Drill

Disaster• Man-Made

Event

• Shootings• Violent Acts• Terrorism

ProtectiveAction

• Shelter in Place• Lockdown

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TRAINING DRILLS – EACH SCHOOL

Illinois law and district policy requires each school to conduct a specific number and type of drill each school year:

3 Fire Drills 1 Severe Weather/Tornado Drill 1 Bus Evacuation Drill 2 Lockdown Drills

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FIRE DRILLS - BUILDING EVACUATION

Fire drill procedure is a means of evacuating the building in a quick and orderly manner.

When events require the immediate evacuation of the building, the fire drill procedure will be used to accomplish that evacuation. (Fire...Gas Leak…Bomb Threat…Toxic Building)

Building evacuation plans include the immediate evacuation to STAGING AREAS outside of the building.

Each classroom has a map directing the classroom to its designated STAGING AREA

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Tornado / Severe Weather Drill

Severe Weather can pose danger to the school population

Most frequent concern is a Tornado

Protective actions are to move the students to predetermined shelter areas in the building to protect them during severe weather

Each classroom has a map directing the classroom to its designated SHELTER AREA

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Joplin High School - Hallway12

Shelter in Place

Protective action to give tighter security to the building and the school population (the building is in state of heightened security)

Threat to the school is NOT immediate

Shelter-In-Place procedures may be utilized in response to events that occur outside of the school building that could be dangerous: • Hazardous material spill, chemical or biological release• Gas leak, explosions, aircraft accident • Criminal event

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Lockdown – Secures the Classroom

LOCKDOWN

Protective Action

Violence

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Lockdown and Crisis Management

What is a Lockdown?• Protective actions taken to make the school and

classrooms safer

• Locking down the classrooms…protecting our students against the harm of violence

When do we use a Lockdown? (Violent threat on campus)

• Whenever a person is identified as causing harm or posing a significant threat to others

Safety of the School Population is in Jeopardy

• Threat to the school IS immediate

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Lockdown and Crisis Management

Lockdown Readiness Prepare, Plan and Practice for the worse

case scenario Violence within the school

Why Lockdowns?Secure our school / Secure our classrooms When the violent threat, staff and students are in the

school……… without police

intervention.

Until the Police Arrive to Confront the Threat

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Lockdown Concept

violence (actual or threat of) on campus building occupants to lock themselves away...if

possible

place as many physical barriers between us and the violent threat...as quickly as possible

hide from view of the aggressor

leave the building if it is unsafe

until police arrive to neutralize the threat

Parent/Child Reunification

If a building becomes dangerous, a crime scene or uninhabitable the school population may be transported to one of the high schools

Depending on the situation and type of event Parents will be notified by the Rapid Communication

System

The high schools are designated reunification centers

Reunification Center: Location where parents are reunified with their child

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Sandy Hook Elementary – Newtown Connecticut

armed attack....difficult if not impossible to prevent

shooter forcefully entered school

entered office area

principal activated PA system

no formal lockdown announcement was made

open PA system – staff heard the conflict over the speakers...staff started to take lockdown actions

shooter moved into school, attempted to open doors, if classroom door was locked, moved on to other doors

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School Safety

nothing….absolutely nothing…is more important

than the safety of our children

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Will it happen in your child's school?

schools are still the safest place to be

however…for our students and staff

we have to prepare for the unthinkable

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Gary ChesterDistrict 300

Safety Officer

Office: 847 551-8365gary.chester@d300.org

Safe SchoolParent Information Meeting

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