1. presented by Jana Frieler, Bill Ziegler, Kevin Lein, Ryan Rollinger Challenges That Test Your School Safety Plan

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5. Today’s Presenters Jana Frieler NASSP Faculty Consultant Dr. Kevin Lein Principal Dr. Bill Ziegler Principal Ryan Rollinger Assistant Principal Harrisburg High School South Dakota Pottsgrove High School Pennsylvania

6. Today’s Agenda Dr. Bill Ziegler – Principal, Pottsgrove High School Questions Dr. Kevin Lein and Ryan Rollinger – Principal and Assistant Principal Harrisburg High School Questions Questions from the Group

7. Breaking Ranks Recommendation 13 “The school creates a safe, caring environment characterized by interactions between adults and students that convey high expectations, support and mutual respect” SLIDE TITLE

8. Dr. Ziegler

9. Emergency at Pottsgrove Middle School Thursday, December 13, 2012 Approximately 9:30 a.m. It was a cold blustery day and our school is located on a hill away from other buildings. There is only one way up to our campus Student Body 800 students Faculty/Staff 75 – 1 School Resource Officer on Campus during this event

10. What Happened? About 200 students were practicing the entire morning for the holiday concert from 7:30- 9:30 a.m. on risers with the full stage lights on them. 1 Student passed out and fell off the risers, a 2 nd student passed out and fell off the risers, then a 3 rd student passed out. Hysteria set in with the choral students as they began to cry and hyperventilate.

11. What Happened? Remove Choir from Aud. to Café in fear there was something going on in the Auditorium. As word spread through the school, students began to panic and several were sent to the nurse. While in the café, a student had a seizure and ended up urinating on the floor. (This student never seized before). As the EMT’s responded for this student, four others passed out throughout the building. Students in the café began to cry as they watched their friend have a seizure.

12. What Happened? While the EMT’s were working on the student seizing, a call came over that three more students passed out in various classrooms. I immediately pulled the fire alarm to empty the building. 9:45-ish, we evacuated to the football field and had to withstand the cold temps. Fire, police, and ambulances responded. We called to get busses to take us to the HS.

13. What Happened? 27 Students were taken to the Hospital CHOP (30 miles away) sent us a Emergency Pediatrician and full Ambulance crew Helicopters were hovering and made it difficult to hear Parents started coming to the scene and were kept off property by police and told to report to the HS Buses transport

14. Communication is Key Follow Your Plan Teamwork saves lives You need to make quick decisions in a time of crisis A Plan for the Parents is Critical What did you learn as a result?

15. Try to find a better location for our medically fragile students Quicker communication out to parents with updates What would you do differently?

16. Was our Safety Plan Enough? It was good but nothing prepares you to send 27 students to the hospital and to protect them from what took place and the cold. The leaders on site and at the District Office needed to think and act quickly, decisions needed to be made on the spot. In other words, we couldn’t be paging through the plan for answers.

17. Follow Up We met as a team to reflect and to see how we can improve. As a result of this meeting, we got an entirely new radio system for communication – stronger and better.

18. Dr. Lein Mr. Rollinger

19. School Demographics Population of Harrisburg, SD 5,000 suburb of Sioux Falls, pop. 180,000. District population 4,200 – 5 Elementary Schools – 2 Middle Schools – 1 High School School population 860. 75+ Staff members 1 SRO (District) – Was not at HS during event.

20. At 10:00am on 9/30/2015 a student entered the office of High School Principal Dr. Kevin Lein with a hand gun. One shot was fired piercing Dr. Lein’s right elbow & grazing his chest. At 10:01am an all school Lock-Down was initiated over the intercom and the panic button was triggered. By 10:03am the school was in Lock-Down, the subject was detained by the assistant principal and restrained with the assistance of the school’s athletic director.

21. First officer on scene at 10:06am. and took the subject into custody. School remained in Lock-Down until authorities (local police, FBI, ATF, S.W.A.T.) cleared the building. All students were transported by bus to South Middle School (one mile away) shortly after 12:00pm. Reunification with parents/guardians was completed with the final student(s) being picked up by 5:30pm.

22. Yes…it did happen here…

23. September 30, 2015 Articulation with shooter previous week Regular school day Release from classroom Entrance into office Heroic acts of assistant principal “Angels in the office”

24. Protocols in place… Panic buttons One entrance Bullet-proof film Lockdown procedures and drills SRO Surveillance

25. What Did We Learn Communication is Key – Staff – Students – Parents. Cell phone school. Areas of concern with communication – Gym, Theaters, Outdoors etc. Lock-Down procedures were very effective. Look into program such as A.L.I.C.E or S.A.V.E Reunification – divide into grade levels have liaison for each group.

26. Follow Up All Staff Meeting 7:00am next morning. All Student meeting at 8:00am next morning 3 separate debriefing meetings were held with staff. Notes were taken and shared. District counseling staff scheduled for High School rotations. Professional counselors made available to staff and students, district insurance covered cost.

27. Here is a link to a Power-Point outlining the details of the incident on 9/30/15. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12MpN2BbkMfFthBBueGcbTgToHepkxoUuSRdpqGgcuww/edit?usp=sharing SLIDE TITLE

28. Resources There will be a document of school safety resources, power point, and recording of today’s webinar available on the NASSP webinar archive that you can access at anytime. https://www.nassp.org/professional- learning/online-professional- development/webinars https://www.nassp.org/professional- learning/online-professional- development/webinars Link to School Safety Resources: http://nassp9.dotster.com/igx_temp/NASSP_We binar_2016-10- 06_School_Safety_Resources.docx http://nassp9.dotster.com/igx_temp/NASSP_We binar_2016-10- 06_School_Safety_Resources.docx

29. Discussion Comments & Questions Jana Frieler - gfrieler@Comcast.netgfrieler@Comcast.net Kevin Lein – Kevin.Lein@k12.sd.usKevin.Lein@k12.sd.us Ryan Rollinger – Ryan.Rollinger@k12.sd.usRyan.Rollinger@k12.sd.us Bill Ziegler – wziegler@pgsd.orgwziegler@pgsd.org

30. New module in NASSP’s Leading Success online toolkit: Safe And Healthy School Environments Coming fall 2016! nassp.org/leadingsuccess

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