1. School Safety Staff / Students / Visitors
Gary Chester
District 300
Safety Officer
Office:

2. Expectations

3. School Safety District 300
Consistency
Partnerships
Training
Safety Procedures

4. District-Wide Consistency
Terminology
Safety Procedures – Protective Actions
Crisis Management
Staff Training
Police & Fire Response to our Schools

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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 Drivers
Food Service Staff
Secretarial Office Staff of each building

8. School Emergency Man-Made Natural Shootings Violent Acts Terrorism
Disaster
Man-Made
Event
Shootings
Violent Acts
Terrorism
Protective
Action
Shelter in Place
Lockdown
Disaster
Natural
Event
Tornado
Storms
Fire
Protective
Action
Tornado Drill
Fire Drill

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. Joplin High School - Hallway

13. (the building is in state of heightened security)
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

14. Lockdown – Secures the Classroom
Protective Action
Violence

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. School Safety
nothing…. absolutely nothing… is more important than the safety of our children

21. 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

23. Safe School Parent Information Meeting
Gary Chester
District 300
Safety Officer
Office: