County-Wide Safe Schools Plan

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County-Wide Safe Schools Plan

• It has been updated and is now available on the
  East McDowell Junior High Web Page

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Roles and Responsibilities of School Personnel in
Maintaining a Safe and Orderly Learning
Environment
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Roles and Responsibilities

• All school personnel are responsible for
  maintaining a safe and orderly learning
  environment. School personnel will review
  expectations for faculty and staff, review the
  safe school plan, and provide adequate
  supervision for students at all times.

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Roles and Responsibilities

• Students, teachers and support staff are all
  responsible to act on situations when a threat
  has been made that would cause bodily harm or
  death to students or faculty members or when a
  threat of an action that would otherwise disrupt
  the educational process has been spoken, written
  or otherwise uttered.

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Roles and Responsibilities

• Information will be provided to faculty,
  students, parents (guardians and care givers),
  and the community pertaining to student conduct
  and the Safe School Plan.
• Students and parents must sign the conduct form
  to assure they have read and understand the
  policies.

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Principal or Administrator-In-Charge

• Restores, if needed, and maintains a safe and
  orderly learning environment by establishing
  appropriate rules and procedures and monitoring
  of the physical and social/cultural environment.

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Principal

• Exhibits appropriate leadership and conduct for
  school personnel and students through daily
  actions and behaviors.

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Principal

• Provides appropriate disciplinary consequences
  for disruptive students by following established
  rules and policies.

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Principal

• Reports all criminal acts as defined by G.S.
  115C-228(g) to law enforcement and the central
  office.

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Acts Include

• Assault resulting in physical injury,
• Sexual assault,
• Sexual offense,
• Rape,
• Kidnapping,
• Indecent liberties with a minor,
• Assault involving the use of a weapon,

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Acts Include

• Possession of a firearm in violation of the law,
• Possession of a weapon in violation of the law,
• Assault on school officials, employees and/or
  volunteers,
• Homicide,
• Robbery,

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Acts Include

• Armed robbery,
• Bomb threats, or
• False fire alarms

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Failure to Report

• Failure to make an appropriate required report is
  a Class 3 Misdemeanor and is punishable by North
  Carolina State law.

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Principal

• Inspects the building and grounds to assess the
  safety and security of the facilities. Immediate
  and appropriate action will be taken to address
  any identified problems.

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Principal

• Maintain an up-to-date crisis plan box.

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Teachers and Teacher Assistants

• All staff members will be trained in the rules
  for the use of seclusion and the proper and
  appropriate restraint of students.

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Teachers

• Restores, if needed, and maintains a safe and
  orderly learning environment by establishing
  appropriate rules and procedures and monitoring
  of the physical and social/cultural environment.

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Teachers

• Provides appropriate instruction to meet the
  needs of all students, including those at-risk of
  academic failure.

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Teachers

• Posts a code of student conduct in each classroom
  and distributes to each student at the beginning
  of the school year.

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Teachers

• Students who enroll after the school year begins
  will be given a code of student conduct at the
  time of their enrollment.

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Teachers

• Make an appropriate referral of students at-risk
  of academic failure or engaging in disruptive or
  disorderly behavior.
• CARE Team
• Child and Family Support Team
• Guidance
• Administration
• SRO

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Teachers

• Receives training in methods of maintaining a
  safe and secure environment and related policies
  and procedures that include, but not limited to

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Maintaining a Safe and Secure Environment (cont)

• Monitoring for activity inside and out.
• Noticing strangers in the building (do they have
  visitor passes?)
• Appropriately confront or report location.
• Follow protocol. (Keep locked doors locked).
• Know what to do and how to do it.
• Report any problems or concerns to the
  administration and/or SRO.

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Teachers

• Bus evacuations are practiced every year and bus
  safety classes are held.
• Two staff members are trained First Responders.

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Teachers

• Implement the Schools Crisis Management Plan.

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Support Personnel

• Restores, if needed, and maintains a safe and
  orderly learning environment by establishing and
  following appropriate rules and procedures and
  monitoring of the schools physical and
  social/cultural environments. Support personnel
  shall assist the administration and faculty in
  the implementation of the Safe School Plan.

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Visitors

• Sign-In and Sign-Out Procedures .
• Teachers
• Staff
• Visitors
• Vendors

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Visitors

• All visitors shall sign-in and sign-out at the
  front desk. Visitors will be issued a visitors
  pass at sign-in and the pass must be returned at
  sign-out.

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Visitors

• Vendors shall sign-in and sign-out at the front
  desk.

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Substitute Teachers

• Substitute teachers must sign-in and sign-out at
  the front desk. Substitutes will be issued a
  substitute badge at sign-in and it must be
  returned at sign-out.

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Teachers

• Teachers and staff members shall follow
  established procedures for signing-in and
  signing-out.

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School System Personnel

• System wide administrators and other school
  personnel shall check-in and check-out at the
  principals office.

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EMJH School Personnel

• Teachers, staff, and substitutes who will be off
  campus during the day shall sign-out and sign-in
  at the front office.

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Students

• Students who are late to school shall sign-in at
  the front desk. A Class Admit Slip will be issued
  by office staff showing the reason for the late
  arrival, students name, date, time, and whether
  the tardy is excused or unexcused.

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Students

• Students who are tardy due to bus issues shall go
  directly to their class and an announcement will
  be made to admit these students as excused.

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Students

• Only a responsible adult (parent, guardian, or a
  person who has written permission on file in the
  principals office) may check out a student. A
  photo ID IS required.

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Students

• The responsible adult must sign-out the student
  and give a reason for the check-out before the
  student is called to the office.

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Identifying and Serving the Needs of Students
At-Risk of Academic Failure or of Engaging
inDisruptive or Disorderly Behavior
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At-Risk Services

• Students who are at-risk of academic failure or
  of engaging in disruptive or disorderly behavior
  will be identified by
• Assessing classroom behavior and/or academic
  performance
• Maintaining up to date records of referrals to
  the principal for behavior or academic reasons.

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At-Risk Services

• Examining available data, including attendance
  information and,
• Reviewing student records and test performance

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At-Risk Services

• Strategies used to meet the needs of students
  identified as at-risk of academic failure or of
  engaging in disruptive or disorderly behavior
  include
• Remediation and tutoring programs.
• Modification of instructions.
• Placement in an alternative setting or program.
• Coordination with outside agencies.
• Referral services for family preservation to
  local mental health providers.

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Emergency Codes

• Code Yellow
• Code Yellow-Secure
• Specific Directions may be given
• Code Yellow-Evacuate
• Code Red
• Total lockdown of facility

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Emergency Codes

• Code Red
• Code Red will always be an emergency situation
  and requires a complete lockdown.
• Take appropriate actions based upon the
  situations in which you find yourself.

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Code Yellow-Secure

• Code Yellow procedures should be followed when it
  is in the best interest of the school to keep
  students, faculty, and staff away from common
  areas (lunchroom, gymnasium, media center,
  hallways, locker rooms, etc).

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Code Yellow-Secure

• An announcement Code Yellow alert will be made
  from the principals office. If there is a
  particular area of concern the Code Yellow
  alert will be followed by an announcement of a
  particular area or situation. Example Code
  Yellow avoid the 8th grade hallway.

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Code Yellow-Secure

• Faculty and staff shall clear all open spaces and
  take charge of any students in the immediate
  vicinity even if not their students.

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Code Yellow-Secure

• Classroom doors shall be locked.
• Notify the appropriate classroom of any student
  not belonging to you that they are secure in your
  classroom.
• Teachers should continue teaching.
• All students are to be kept in the classroom.

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Code Yellow-Secure

• All bells or fire alarms (unless it is apparent
  that there is a fire in the area) should be
  disregarded.
• The principal or the administrator-in-charge
  shall notify Emergency Management and the Central
  Office.

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Code Yellow-Secure

• A Code Yellow will continue until an all
  clear message is given.
• Attention staff, the Code Yellow is no longer in
  effect. Please return to your normal schedule (or
  specific instructions are given.)

• NOTE A Code Yellow can quickly be upgraded to
  a Code Red if required.

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Code Yellow-Evacuate

• An announcement will be made, Code
  Yellow-Evacuate.
• A particular area may be blocked off.
• Avoid that area.
• All faculty and staff will follow the directions
  given.
• Why would this be used?

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Code Yellow-Evacuate

• Suicide
• Death
• Severe Injury
• Chemical emergency
• Weather emergency
• Bomb threat
• Any other situation where the building needs to
  be evacuated

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Code Yellow-Evacuate

• Clearly spoken instructions will be given.
• There will be no vague directions given, they
  will be specific.
• Teachers, may I have your attention please? Code
  Yellow-Evacuate. Please avoid area given.
  Teachers, check your rooms for any suspicious
  items and note them on your white boards before
  leaving the classroom.

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Code Yellow-Evacuate

• If the evacuation is going to involve moving the
  students in such a way that normal evacuation
  procedures to vacate the building (Fire Escape
  Plan) then specific instructions will be given to
  those teachers.

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Code Yellow-Evacuate

• In the event of a bomb threat the parking areas
  would need to be avoided for instance.
• We would evacuate into the baseball field area
  with all students.
• If the evacuation will be extended then
  transportation will be provided to a safe
  loaction.

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Code Red (Lockdown)

• Code Red (Lockdown) procedures should be
  followed when an armed person or intruder (s) is
  detected anywhere on campus or as a result of a
  hostage situation or abduction or as a result of
  civil disobedience or riot.

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Code Red

• The person observing the intruder shall
  immediately notify the office and provide the
  following information about the intruder(s)
• Last known location.
• The number of intruders observed.
• The presence of any weapons or suspicious
  devices.
• A description of the intruder(s).

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Code Red

• Faculty and staff shall clear all open spaces and
  take charge of any students in the immediate
  vicinity, even if not your students.
• The office will announce a Code Red and give
  the intruders last known location. Example
  Code Red parking lot.

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Code Red

• Classroom doors and windows shall be locked. Once
  a door is secured, the teacher shall not open the
  door for any reason as long as a Code Red is in
  effect.
• Cover outside windows with shades or blinds or
  with paper if time permits

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Code Red

• Support personnel who have students should go to
  a sheltered location, lock the doors, keep
  students away from doors and windows, and stay
  with the students until advised otherwise.
• Support staff (clerical workers, custodians, food
  service employees, etc.) that do not supervise
  students should go to a per-assigned location and
  lock the doors.

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Code Red

• Teachers in adjacent classrooms shall assist
  substitute teachers in securing and locking
  doors.
• If anyone is injured or may require medical
  attention a Red Paper with the room number
  should be slid under the door and into the
  hallway. A second Red Paper should be used in
  the window in a manner that is visible from
  outside and prevents anyone from outside the
  classroom from seeing the location of students or
  teachers or staff members.

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Code Red

• If no one is injured or is in need of medical
  attention, a Green Paper should be slid under
  the door and into the hallway. A second Green
  Paper should be used in such a manner that it
  can be seen from outside.
• Each room where this procedure is not followed
  will be considered a possible threat area by law
  enforcement.

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Code Red

• Teachers shall take roll immediately and report
  any missing students and their last known
  destination, i.e., restroom, office, etc. to a
  Safety Team Member.
• Students are to be seated in a sheltered area of
  the room and away from doors and windows.
• All students are to be kept in the classroom.

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Code Red

• Any bells or alarms (unless it is apparent that
  there is a fire in the area) should be
  disregarded.
• The principal or the administrator-in-charge
  shall notify Emergency Management and the Central
  Office.
• Each room will be contacted individually by the
  principal or other administrators who will make a
  predetermined statement and wait for the
  appropriate response from the teacher. An
  inappropriate response will indicate that there
  is a problem. Question Is everything OK?
  Response Everything is OK.

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Code Red

• In an Evacuation is deemed necessary, it will
  be conducted under the direction of law
  enforcement. Law enforcement officers will
  announce themselves, use a key supplied by the
  school to gain access to the classroom, and
  escort individual classrooms out of the building
  one class at a time and ONLY when it is safe to
  do so.

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Code Red

• Procedures to follow if a Code Red occurs
  during assembly, lunch, between classes, during
  fire drills, etc.
• Do not climb under tables or desks.
• Run away from the danger area in a direction
  opposite from the intruder.
• If a shooter is involved, instruct student to
  zigzag as much as possible.
• Put an obstacle between the shooter and the
  students.
• Do not be concerned about notifying the office.
  Someone in a safer are will make the report.
• Keep students running until they are in a safe
  area away from the school.
• Gather as many students as possible and take them
  to a predetermined, designated rally area so
  students can be accounted for.
• Wait for instructions and do not allow students
  to leave.

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Code Red

• A Code Red will continue until an all clear
  message is given.
• This message will sound something like, All
  Clear. Teachers (followed by specific
  instructions as to what to do).
• Remain in your classrooms until
• Resume normal activities
• We will be evacuating by classrooms, please
  stand-by and officers will come to your room.

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What are your responsibilities?

• Teachers and teacher assistants are responsible
  for the safety and welfare of all students.
• The teachers and assistants will
• Keep Safe School flip charts close by to provide
  quick and easy access to procedures for
  themselves and substitutes.
• Keep accurate and current information about the
  emergency plans for the school. (Know what to do
  and how to do it.)
• In accordance with the schools Safe School Plan,
  provide instruction and practice for students in
  policies and procedures to follow during the
  course of an emergency.
• Have readily available a record of each students
  emergency information (NC-WISE)
• Make all emergency data and plans available for a
  substitute teacher.
• Make reasonable and prudent decisions in regard
  to the safety and well being of students.

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Any Questions?

• Now is the time to ask questions or make
  comments.
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  Your input is important.