With School Security Upgrades, Avoid Knee-Jerk Reactions
The following practices will help your district take a careful and intentional approach to implementing school security upgrades.
The following practices will help your district take a careful and intentional approach to implementing school security upgrades.
Accessibility, visibility, and community-building must be prioritized when architects are designing new construction or upgrade projects for schools.
Access or functional needs (AFN) site assessments should cover landscaping, architecture and security, as well as indicators of how well people appreciate, support and communicate with each other, and how functional the school is as a center of teaching and learning.
A security veteran who has conducted countless site assessments shares successes and cautionary tales in CPTED and offers sage advice for schools.
Student safety and school security met classroom design at last week’s co-located Campus Safety Conference at EDspaces.
The building involved in the incident was not a Jewish school but is associated with a group known for its radical anti-Semitic views.
Drop safes, signage, training, transaction barriers, and cameras can deter robberies at locations that have frequent cash transactions.
Low-cost strategies include conducting a walk-through of school grounds and creating use policies for outside groups.
A thorough risk assessment helps protect not only the physical property of a campus but also the people inside it
Multifunctional, fire-rated glazing supports a welcoming environment and protects against multiple life-safety threats.
In this webinar, attendees will learn the observable behaviors people exhibit as they head down a path of violence so we can help prevent the preventable.
This discussion will help participants analyze, understand, and assess their own program effectiveness.