Last week we shared the Guiding Principles for Creating Safe, Inclusive, Supportive, and Fair School Climates. In order to help implement the principles, four fact sheets were created in a collaborative effort by the Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety, the Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports, the National Center on Safe and Supportive Learning Environments, the Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center, the Student Engagement and Attendance Technical Assistance Center, the Title IV, Part A Technical Assistance Center, and the Best Practices Clearinghouse.

The four fact sheets include "best practices and approaches to help support and respond to students’ social, emotional, behavioral, and academic needs, including practices designed to reduce the use of exclusionary discipline in schools. Each fact sheet is tailored to a specific audience at the school or district level: school and district leaders, student support teams, educators and school-based staff, and families. The fact sheets also feature resources to help support stakeholders in this important work."

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is hosting a virtual training session on Wednesday, June 14 at 1:00 p.m. CDT on threat assessment and reporting and the recently released CISA-U.S. Secret Service K-12 Bystander Reporting Toolkit.

"This event will provide information and resources specifically for the kindergarten through grade 12 (K-12) school community. The virtual training session will feature guest speakers from the CISA School Safety Task Force, the U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center, and the OK2SAY Michigan Student Safety Program. Speakers will provide an overview of resources related to K-12 bystander reporting, threat assessment and training, and ways K-12 organizations can encourage and support reporting programs within their community. The discussion will also feature a Q&A session for participants."

For more information and to register, click here.

The Illinois School and Campus Safety Program, in partnership with the REMS TA Center and Evanston/Skokie SD 65, is pleased to announce the classes Developing Emergency Operations Plans K-12 101 Train-the-Educator and Conducting K-12 Site Assessments with SITE ASSESS will be held June 22, 2023, in Evanston, IL. During the Developing Emergency Operations plans class, an expert team will provide an overview of a recommended six step planning process to create a high-quality school EOP. The SITE ASSESS training is intended to provide participants with an introduction to site assessments, including their purpose; who should serve on a site assessment team; how site assessments support school preparedness activities; how data from site assessments are incorporated into the planning process; and key topics such as Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design.

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This is the last chance to register for the Communicating Through Crisis: Navigating Critical Incidents class on June 12th from 9:30am to 12:30pm via Zoom. Attendees will explore effective critical incident response strategies for K-12 and higher ed administrators, as well as law enforcement. The form and scope of a critical incident can vary, but there are some key strategies you can use to effectively and quickly communicate with different audiences. For more information and to register, click here.

The Illinois School and Campus Safety Program is pleased to announce the class Campus Threat Assessment and Management will be held July 11-12, 2023, in Chicago Heights, IL. This two-day workshop for institutions of higher education featuring Gene Deisinger, Ph.D will help participants to better understand the dynamics of targeted violence and to develop and enhance strategies for early identification, assessment, and intervention with concerning situations. For more information and to register, click here.