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4 Ways to Modernize School Emergency Response Plans Opens link in new tab

Campus Safety Magazine - January 27, 2025

In an era where safety concerns have become an unavoidable reality, schools must prioritize robust and comprehensive emergency response plans. From natural disasters to security threats, these blueprints outline how schools and school districts will prevent and address situations that threaten school safety, such as violence, natural disasters, and medical emergencies. Students and educators deserve…

Emergency Management
Guide/Tool

Decision Making Guide for School Closure

San Mateo County (CA) Office of Education

This decision-making guide outlines key considerations school and district leaders should weigh when determining whether to close schools during extreme weather events or power outages. It presents a comprehensive checklist focused on access, safety, health, and instruction.

Extreme Weather and Natural Hazards
Research/Report

Guiding Principles for School Resource Officers

U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)

This report recommends best practices for partnering with local law enforcement and establishing a school-based community policing program, based on the work of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) in the Department of Justice.

Safety and Security
Article

Heat at School: Nausea, Headaches, Burns, Fatigue

Kathy L. Reiner

In this blog post on the Healthy School Network website, the author – a fellow of the National Academy of School Nursing – shares talking points from the National Association of School Nurses 2024 conference, where discussion centered on the impacts of extreme heat on student health and learning.

Extreme Weather and Natural Hazards
California

Huge Lapses in Fire Inspections of City Schools Over Last Decade, Audit Shows Opens link in new tab

The San Francisco Standard - January 6, 2025

A San Francisco agency responsible for making sure all 259 public and private schools in the city are safe and prepared for fires and emergencies failed to inspect more than a third of them in fiscal 2017-18 — including 26 facilities the department didn’t know existed. An audit of the San Francisco Fire Department’s Bureau…

Emergency Management
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Mistakes to Avoid When Making Emergency Plans for Schools Opens link in new tab

facilitiesnet.com - January 9, 2025

Nobody in a school district knows the school campus and grounds better than maintenance and engineering managers, says Kenneth Trump, president, National School Safety and Security Service. “Facility managers should have a seat at the table and be an integral part of each school’s and district’s safety and emergency teams,” Trump says. “They not onlyknow…

Emergency Management
Resource Hub

Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center (REMS)

Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools (REMS)

The REMS TA center website offers a suite of tools to build preparedness capacity of schools, districts, and their partners.

Safety and Security
Resource Hub

Safe and Sound Schools

Safe and Sound Schools

This website provides research-based tools, training, and support for crisis-prevention, response, and recovery.

Safety and Security
Case Study/Exemplar

School District Essential Plans: Examples

National Council on School Facilities (NCSF)

This webpage provides example plans from school districts across the country, including education specifications, facility management plans, capital improvement plans, and maintenance plans.

Planning

Interactive Data Dashboard on Public School Facilities Funding

From Coal Country to Classrooms: A Superintendent's Fight for Rural School Infrastructure in Virginia

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4 Ways to Modernize School Emergency Response Plans Opens link in new tab

Decision Making Guide for School Closure

Guiding Principles for School Resource Officers

Heat at School: Nausea, Headaches, Burns, Fatigue

Huge Lapses in Fire Inspections of City Schools Over Last Decade, Audit Shows Opens link in new tab

Mistakes to Avoid When Making Emergency Plans for Schools Opens link in new tab

Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center (REMS)

Safe and Sound Schools

School District Essential Plans: Examples

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4 Ways to Modernize School Emergency Response Plans Opens link in new tab

Decision Making Guide for School Closure

Guiding Principles for School Resource Officers

Heat at School: Nausea, Headaches, Burns, Fatigue

Huge Lapses in Fire Inspections of City Schools Over Last Decade, Audit Shows Opens link in new tab

Mistakes to Avoid When Making Emergency Plans for Schools Opens link in new tab

Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center (REMS)

Safe and Sound Schools

School District Essential Plans: Examples

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