John Adams Academy in Douglas County is joining a growing national experiment in high-tech school defense with a system designed to buy police critical time in the early moments of an attack.
Date & Time: Thursday, October 16 12 p.m. ET <br><br> This timely podcast revisits and expands upon critical school safety strategies from the "5 P's" methodology (Planning, Process, Protocol, Practice, Prevention), a comprehensive framework for school safety preparedness that transforms theoretical safety plans into life-saving action.
Though violence on Hawaii campuses is rare, the state is preparing to roll out a new alert system for public schools as a way to speed up law enforcement response in an emergency, such as an active shooter situation.
The state is adding restrictions meant to make lockdown drills less scary for children, and will also require schools to notify parents about the exercises ahead of time.
The first question we must ask is, "What is it, physically, about our schools that leaves us vulnerable?" This question can evoke a variety of responses.
"It's really about how do you help someone months, weeks or even years before they ever reach the point of thinking about hurting themselves or hurting someone else," Sandy Hook Promise co-founder and CEO Nicole Hockley says on the latest episode of District Administration's "Talking Out of School" podcast.
