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Gary ChesterDistrict 300
Safety Off icer
Off ice: 847 [email protected]
School SafetyStaff / Students / Visitors
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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
Protectiv
eAction
• Tornado Drill• Fire Drill
Disaster
• Man-Made
Event
• Shootings• Violent Acts• Terrorism
Protective
Action
• Shelter in Place• Lockdown
School Emergency 8
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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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 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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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 Offi cer
Offi ce: 847 [email protected]
Safe SchoolParent Information Meeting
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