Safety & Security Overview
We're constantly auditing our processes for effectiveness and efficiencies, which includes identifying those areas that need improvement. This proactive process helps us ensure that our students can maximize their learning potential within a safe and secure environment.
School safety encompasses multiple domains within the school environment. Each must be reviewed when assessing the level of safety for students and staff. Some components of our assessment process include development and enforcement of policies; procedures for data collection; development of intervention and prevention plans; the level of staff development; opportunities for student involvement; the level of parent and community involvement; the role of law enforcement; standards for safety and security personnel; safety and security of buildings and grounds; and development of emergency response plans.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense is dedicated to helping kids thrive in a world of media and technology. It empowers parents, teachers and policymakers by providing unbiased information, trusted advice and innovative tools to help them harness the power of media and technology as a positive force in all kids' lives.
Cyberbullying Research Center
The Cyberbullying Research Center is dedicated to providing up-to-date information about the nature, extent, causes, and consequences of cyberbullying among adolescents. Cyberbullying can be defined as "Willful and repeated harm inflicted through the use of computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices." It is also known as "cyber bullying," "electronic bullying," "e-bullying," "sms bullying," "mobile bullying," "online bullying," "digital bullying" or "Internet bullying." This web site serves as a clearinghouse of information concerning the ways adolescents use and misuse technology. It is intended to be a resource for parents, educators, law enforcement officers, counselors, and others who work with youth.
Facebook Family Safety Center
Facebook's administrators believe safety is a conversation and a shared responsibility among everyone. Safety is an ongoing conversation between parents and kids, teachers and students, companies and the people who use their products and services.
Facebook Safety
Using this Facebook page, learn about the platform's safety tools and resources. It provides updates and information to help keep families safe while using Facebook or surfing on the Internet.
Ready.gov
Launched in February 2003, Ready is a national public service advertising campaign designed to educate and empower Americans to prepare for and respond to emergencies including natural and man-made disasters. The goal of the campaign is to get the public involved and ultimately to increase the level of basic preparedness across the nation. Ready, and its Spanish language version Listo, ask individuals to do three key things: Build an emergency supply kit, make a family emergency plan and be informed about the different types of emergencies that could occur and their appropriate responses.
StopBullying.gov
StopBullying.gov provides information from various government agencies on what bullying is, what cyberbullying is, who is at risk, and how you can prevent and respond to bullying. It coordinates closely with the federal partners in bullying prevention steering committee, an interagency effort led by the Department of Education that works to coordinate policy, research, and communications on bullying topics. The federal partners include representatives from the U.S. departments of agriculture, defense, education, health and human services, as well as the interior and justice departments, and the Federal Trade Commission and the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.