School Safety Leadership Institute

Meaningful school safety planning involves multiple components, operating in tandem, to be leveraged as both proactive and reactive keys for addressing complex safety issues.

Enhance situational awareness, identify potential threats, direct the appropriate resources to mitigate, isolate, or eliminate a potential or actual threat, and implement emergency response protocols.

Keeping schools safe requires a team effort and the combined resources of the federal, state, and local governments; school boards; law enforcement; and the public.

Establish a baseline of your current safety/security status.  Identify what works & what doesn't.  Sharpen current practices & procedures.  Establish a vision by leveraging advisory groups at all levels.

Using “X” As The Potential Day A Catastrophic Event Occurs In A School.  Proactive strategies are designed to work to the left of the “X”.  Reactive strategies work from the “X” and extend to the right of the “X”
 

​Working to the left of the “X” involves the implementation of strategies designed to reduce the potential for “X” to occur which saves all lives, because the intended act of violence, is mitigated before it occurs.