1. 2018-2019 Mandated Safety Audits
and Other Legislation
Dr. Kenneth Folks
Chief Academic Officer
Robin LeClaire
Director of School Improvement
Ryan Stewart
School Safety Academy Specialist
Deborah Swain-Bayless
School Safety Specialist
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2. Why?
Special Session HEA 1230
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3. Indiana School Safety Specialist Academy
Director of School Building Physical Security & Safety
TBD
School Safety Academy Specialist
Ryan Stewart
School Safety Specialist
Deborah Swain-Bayless
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4. How?
Hired 11 Contractors
Divided the State Into Regions
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5. Lake County
Marion County

6. The Process

7. Finding Your Region
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8. Lake County Gary Community School Corp. Lake Ridge New Tech Schools
Lake Station Community Schools
School City of East Chicago
School City of Hammond
School City of Hobart
School City of Whiting
River Forest Community School Corp.
Lake County
Crown Point Community
School Corp.
Griffith Public Schools
Hanover Community School Corp.
Lake Central School Corp.
Merrillville Community School Corp.
NW Indiana Special Education Coop
School Town of Munster
School Town of Highland
Tri-Creek School Corp.

9. Marion County @EducateIN MSD Lawrence Twp. MSD Decatur Twp.
MSD Pike Twp.
MSD Washington Twp.
MSD Wayne Twp.
School Town of Speedway
Beech Grove City School
Franklin Township Schools
Indiana School for the Deaf
Indiana School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Indianapolis Public Schools
MSD Warren Twp.
Perry Township Schools
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10. The Process

11. The Process Step 6 Step 7 Step 8
Contractor will audit all documentation and will set a date to met with the POC on school property.
Step 7
During the onsite meeting the contractor will discuss the results of each building plan audit.
Step 8
No Deficiencies – Contractor will provide a link to the superintendent and the POC asking them to complete a final JotForm. Once completed, a letter of compliance will be sent to the superintendent and POC.

12. The Process Step 8 Step 9 Step 10
Deficiencies – Contractor will outline deficiencies and how they can be rectified. The POC will have 30 days to revise, edit and update safety plans.
Step 9
After the 30 day window the POC will no longer have the ability to upload or edit any of the documents in Moodle. Contractor will review uploaded items.
Step 10
Contractor will provide a link to the superintendent and the POC asking them to complete a final JotForm. Once completed, a letter of compliance or noncompliance will be sent to the superintendent and POC.

13. Top Three Safety Concerns
Start the conversation in your building and corporation.
Help us message your safety concerns.
Complete the final JotForm.

14. Project Timeline Developing Moodle portals for all corporations.
Test run began September 19 and will end October 9, 2019.
Contractors will complete training the second week in October and they will begin sending letters the end of October.
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15. What should corporations do now?
Checklist posted on the ISSSA home page
Ensure that superintendents have certified safety plans within the first 60 days of school and-emergency-preparedness-planning- certification-form
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18. Missing Something? Check our webpage www.doe.in.gov/safety
Don’t sweat it…we’ve got you covered.
Check our webpage
Basic resources
Link to Moodle
Moodle is your friend!
Sample protocols
Drill logs
Planning for those who
need accommodations
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19. Questions?
“Our corporation received a review within the last year. Will we be included in the audit?”
“Does the audit include charter schools and non-public schools?”
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20. Training on Human Trafficking
New Legislation IC
Training on Human Trafficking
A school corporation must provide (1) one hour of in-service training every (2) two years pertaining to the identification and reporting of human trafficking.
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21. Cyberbullying Resources
New Legislation IC
Cyberbullying Resources
A school corporation’s website must provide a link to the IDOE webpage outlining resources for:
Prevention and reporting of bullying and cyberbullying incidents
Guidance on how such incidents can be reported to law enforcement when the incidents occur off campus
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22. Discipline Rules Prohibiting Bullying Required
Amended Legislation IC
Discipline Rules Prohibiting Bullying Required
Amended to prohibit bullying through the use of data to include cellular telephone or other wireless or cellular communication device.
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23. 2018 - Amended Legislation IC 20-26-5-10
Adoption of Criminal History Background and Child Protection Index Check Policy; Implementation of Policy
Must include an Indiana expanded child protection index (before or not later than 60 days of employment)
May require an expanded child protection index check in other states
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24. Amended Legislation
IC Unlawful Entry of School Property by a Serious Sex Offender
If a school is leasing the building to a religious institution or house of worship serious sex offenders will be permitted on school property
If school activities are not being held
30 minutes prior to and 30 minutes after the conclusion of the services
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25. Youth Suicide Awareness and Prevention Training
Amended Legislation IC
Youth Suicide Awareness and Prevention Training
Updated to include that a research-based youth suicide awareness and prevention training program must be:
Demonstrated to be an effective or promising program; and
Recommended by the Indiana Suicide Prevention Network Advisory Council.
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26. Amended Legislation
IC Obstruction of Exits; Special Egress Control Device; Inoperative Fire Alarms; Unplanned Fire Alarm Activation
During an unannounced fire alarm activation schools may delay evacuation of the building for up to (3) three minutes while investigating the source of the alarm
If an active shooter is verified the delay may be extended
If after (3) minutes an active shooter has not been verified the building must be evacuated
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27. Questions?
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28. Social Emotional and Behavioral Wellness
Working Together for Student Success
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29. Why address the whole child wellness in schools?
1 in 5 children have a diagnosable mental health challenge.
70% of children in the juvenile system have a mental health challenge.
37% of children with mental health challenges drop out of school.
Suicide is the number 3 leading cause of death in children ages
Children with untreated mental health challenges perform poorly in school.
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Stats that are current and show the need of addressing the whole child. As educators we see students the majority of their day.

30. Every Student Succeed Act
Section 6: Supporting All Students
Vision Statement: Working Together for the Success of the Whole Student
Mission Statement: Indiana will purposefully meet the unique needs of the whole student through effective partnerships in order to provide a flexible, equitable, and culturally responsive learning environment.
Indiana Educators felt that success of the whole students was so vital they included it into our ESSA plan. In Section 6 you can see how to support the whole child. We speak to MTSS as the primary structure for teaching and learning to ensure the whole child is being meet.

31. MTSS Framework @EducateIN
Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) Indiana’s vision for a Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) is to provide academic, behavioral, and social emotional support, grounded in culturally responsive practices, to all students.
MTSS is not a program or an initiative, rather, an overarching framework for academic, behavioral, and social-emotional instruction and intervention. Indiana has developed guidance for academic and behavioral support and is currently expanding this draft to include a social-emotional component
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32. Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Wellness Supports from DOE
Newly created position Assistant Director of Social, Emotional and Behavioral Wellness at IDOE- Christy Berger
Developing Social Emotional Learning Competencies to provide guidance to the field.
Creating online resources for Social Emotional Learning to support Multi-Tiered Systems of Support.
Partnering with Indiana School Mental Health Initiative to have a summit on Social Emotional Learning and Mental Health. Summit will be in Bloomington, In on February 27th and 28th 2019.
Indiana has become apart of the Collaborative for Academics and Social Emotional Learning (CASEL) States’ Initiative.
IDOE will be providing professional development for schools that focus on Social Emotional Learning and Mental Health (regionally and online)

33. Questions?
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34. School Improvement Overview
Under ESSA, schools have three categories for support:
Comprehensive
Targeted
State Intervention
Identification and support will begin in the school year.
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35. School Improvement Overview
Comprehensive Support and Improvement Schools (CSI)
Targeted Support and Improvement Schools
(TSI)
Title I served - School grade ‘F’
High School ≤ 67%
TSI after 5 years
School grade of: A B C D
Non-Title I - F
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36. Comprehensive Support & Improvement (CSI)
Title I served ‘Fs’, or the lowest performing 5% of all Title I schools)
Any high school (Title I or non-Title I) with a graduation rate less than 67% (for only,
the graduation rate will not include the general diploma)
Beginning school year , Title I schools with a subgroup chronically underperforming at the same level as the lowest 5% schools and did not improve within 5 years of implementing a TSI plan
LEA develops a Comprehensive Needs Assessment (CNA) and School Improvement Plan (SIP).
School administers culture, climate survey
State, LEA, and school approve and monitor plan.
Exit Criteria: Attain a grade of ‘C’ on the accountability for 2 or more years; demonstrate a strong plan for sustaining progress
The CSI determinations uses the 2017 cohort, not the 2018 cohort
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37. Targeted Support & Improvement (TSI)
Schools (both Title I and non-Title I) and have one or more subgroups at or below the lowest performing 5% threshold used to identify CSI.
School develops TSI plan.
LEA approves and monitors plan
Exit Criteria: Attain a grade of ‘C’ within 5 years on the accountability system for the subgroup identified as TSI; demonstrate a strong plan for sustaining progress
To be considered a subgroup the school must have 20 students in the subgroup. This is regardless of how many students in the school. Not a percentage but a number of 20.
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38. Targeted Support & Improvement (TSI)
Example of Targeted Support Identification: High School XYZ (Grades 9-12)
•High school XYZ has 25 students in the Hispanic subgroup, 50 students in the Asian subgroup, 18 students in the English learner subgroup, and 35 students in the Special Education subgroup.
•An accountability determination is calculated for the Hispanic, Asian, and Special Education subgroups. No accountability determination is calculated for the English learner subgroup.
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39. Targeted Support & Improvement (TSI)
Example of Targeted Support Identification: High School XYZ (Grades 9-12)
Hispanic = 58.8 points Asian = 70.1 points Special Education = 53.6 points
•Subgroup accountability determinations are compared against the bottom 5% threshold for comprehensive support identification
•Bottom 5% threshold = 58.8 points / points
•Final Identification for Targeted Support: School XYZ is identified for targeted support for the Hispanic and Special Education subgroups
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40. Not eligible for 1003 SIG Funds
Resources
CSI
TSI
Not eligible for 1003 SIG Funds
IDOE to provide technical assistance (TA) resources and hours through the Department and partners with expertise in the affected subgroups
Planning
Implementation
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41. State Intervention
A school that does not exit Comprehensive Support within four years
Exit Criteria: Determined by the Indiana State Board of Education
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43. Questions?
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44. Director of School Improvement
Dr. Kenneth Folks
Chief Academic Officer
Robin LeClaire
Director of School Improvement
Ryan Stewart
School Safety Academy Specialist
Deborah Swain-Bayless
School Safety Specialist
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