GENEROUS SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS
Thank you to all of our Conference sponsors. We are proud to select sponsors that share in our education-first approach to school safety.
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September 30 - October 2, San Diego, CA
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Thank you to all of our Conference sponsors. We are proud to select sponsors that share in our education-first approach to school safety.
The International School Safety Institute was established in 2013 as a knowledge and resource incubator designed to fill an identified void in school safety, school emergency management, and safe school culture and climate programs.
The Institute has a commitment to sharing new thoughts and ideas that advance the safety of students and faculty by providing access to information and resources that help you alleviate your fears about whether enough is being done within your district and school and what you can do to find the answers you need to be more involved in what’s happening in your school.
This year’s Conference takes place September 30 – October 2, 2019 at the Sheraton San Diego Marina and Tower. If you have questions about the Conference, please contact us by phone at: 775-233-8317 or email: jeff@schoolsafetyops.com. For sponsorship, please email: Crystal or call 858-472-3682.
Tailored Workshops
Partnering With Law Enforcement
Special Keynote Speaker
Missy Jenkins-Smith school counselor, author and survivor of the Paducah, KY School shooting
Networking Opportunities
You are welcome to check back frequently as we continue to add more speakers and content to our agenda.
This will be open to all attendees who have paid for the full registration. Pre-registration is required for all Tracks excepts Climate and Culture as seating limitations apply. Per-registration for Client and Culture first aid workshop is required but can be completed the morning of the workshops. Workshop day includes food and coffee service.
Effective Public Speaking
Anyone who uses or is interested in using group presentations, to include power point presentations, as part of professional growth in their industry.
20 people
8:30 AM to 4:00 PM
Sheraton Bay Tower
Digital Threat Assessment
Education and law enforcement professionals who deal with cyber related threats, crimes, or at-risk behaviors affecting school safety and safe school culture and climate. Session is limited to 25 people in order to ensure adequate wi-fi access.
25 people
8:30 AM to 4:00 PM
Sheraton Bay Tower, Main Ballroom A
Digital Threat Assessment was developed through the need to keep pace with the ever-evolving technology challenges that face our students currently. These challenges have entered the education domain with force and have overwhelmed school district staff throughout the world. The goal is to give attendees a stronger understanding of the current social media world, tools to be able to proactively identify student safety concerns, and provide strategies for dealing with online situations as they arise.
All aspects of school safety and threats to schools now involve a social media or online component and we need to be prepared. Successful threat and risk assessments can only occur if we have a solid understanding of all data needed to appropriately assess an individuals’ potential for violence. In 2019, an overall assessment of risk cannot be determined without looking at social media and online activity. It is imperative to understand the tools and methods available to you to identify online threat related behavior. Real life case examples will be used from our subject matter expert work across North America and a significant portion of the day will be spent doing hands-on searching exercises through the most current social media sites and applications.
This track will include multiple workshops addressing collaboration between education and community partners in law enforcement, emergency services, and mental health for effective measures of achieving a safe school culture and climate. Multiple workshops presented on different topics to address today’s recommended best practices in school safety will be presented throughout the day in this track.
Anyone in education, law enforcement, or the mental health profession who deals with matters related to a safe and healthy school culture and climate, or any matters affecting the safety or well-being of students.
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Workshops will run throughout the day from 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM. Please see the below schedule for a list of times and description of the workshops.
Sheraton Bay Tower Main Ballroom B
This session will be moderated by Jeff Kaye, President of School Safety Operations. Multiple people involved in this project will present during this workshop.
This workshop is not just for attendees from Nevada. A standardized school emergency management planning and training program for the 15 rural Nevada school districts was begun in 2015 in response to some excellent school safety laws passed at the state level. This program was started and and funded by the Nevada Risk Management Pool to address the needs of the 15 school districts that did not have their own designated Emergency Managers in order to ensure compliance with all state and federal laws addressing school safety. This is a visionary project that brings trained professionals to the school districts to assist them with their emergency response planning and training. This takes the onus off of the Superintendent and Principals in areas of responsibility related to writing Emergency Operations Plans and providing staff training in emergency response. This program also limits potential civil liabilities in areas related to non-compliance with statutory regulations related to school safety.
The Nevada project can be used as a model template in any U.S. state or Canadian province, since we all have the same basic laws and codes regulating school safety. Standardized emergency management planning overseen by trained professionals is an effective method of ensuring legal compliance and maximizing safe school culture and compliance. Funding of these programs in education is always problematic, so this will also be a topic of discussion during this presentation. Of note here is the Nevada Risk Management Pool (POOL PACT) will be receiving the Institute’s 2019 Gatekeeper School Safety Sponsorship Award during this year’s general session based on their sustained efforts in this project.
Jeff Kaye and ISSI Staff
This workshop will cover what to do during the timeframe covering the inception of an incident until emergency responders arrive, what to do when they get there, and what to do after they are gone. Our school staff and law enforcement personnel who are at ground zero in a school when an incident of violence occurs are considered “Immediate Responders.” This session is geared toward what they can do to maximize school safety if a violent incident occurs, since they are already there when immediate action is necessary.
The session will begin with a discussion of the different responses related to Lockdown, lock out, and the “Alternative Methods” that might be needed in the worst case scenario of an Active Assailant attack at a school. Attendees will then break into small groups to work through multi-phased scenarios they will be provided. No live weapons, simulated weapons, violent videos, fear-based training, or any type of force-on-force tactics will be used in this workshop. No prior emergency response training or skills will be needed as a pre-requisite for attendees. The only thing we ask you to bring are your critical thinking skills, as they will be your best weapons should an actual incident ever occur at your school. Attendees will leave with takeaways they can immediately implement in their school emergency management planning and training programs, and will have a good time working through the exercises.
Blair Gillman, Royal Canadian Mounted Police
This workshop discusses how engaging the community can benefit schools, school districts, curriculum opportunities, student safety, and relationships with law enforcement. There are no geographical boundaries in education safety, and that includes the law enforcement agencies what work with our schools. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is a well-respected agency in the International Law Enforcement community. The “Mounties” work with schools throughout the country of Canada, some in urban areas and some in very remote areas. They are a well-trained agency and have excellent and innovative school safety programs in place. We learn from each other, so it is important go get a broad understanding of how safe school culture and climate programs are conducted Internationally. Blair Gillman will discuss the RCMP and how they are getting things done with involvement of community partners in all aspects involved in safe school culture and climate.
During Blair’s first five months working with schools in his area, he worked through five incidents of credible threats to schools. He’ll discuss these incidents, what they did that worked, and and what his vision of involving community partners in school safety is. Where his schools were in terms of a baseline of preparedness when he got there, where they are now, and where they are going in the future will be aspects of Blair’s presentation. This will include successful grant funding programs he has been involved in. If it works in Canada, it works in the U.S., and vice versa. This is why we are an International training institute. School districts, Superintendents, Principals, school staff, and SRO's have an opportunity to bring partnerships into the schools that will supplement regular curriculum and opportunities while keeping the kids safe. Integration of the SRO into the school climate is an important aspect of safety.
Michael Johnson, Z-Medica, assisted by the ISSI Staff
Emergency room doctors have what they call the “Golden Hour.” This is the timeframe where they have an excellent chance of saving a life if they can a person with a traumatic injury into an operating room while they are still alive. Paramedics have what they call the “Golden Fifteen Minutes.” This is the timeframe where they have an excellent chance of keeping a victim of a traumatic incident alive if they can get them stabilized, loaded into the ambulance, and on their way to the emergency room within fifteen minutes of their arrival on scene. School staff are our “Immediate Responders,” as they are on scene when a bad thing happens. They work in a timeframe we call the “Manic Minutes.” This is the timeframe they will be alone with the victim of a traumatic injury while waiting for paramedics to arrive. The actions taken during these manic minutes will directly impact the timeframes needed by the paramedics and doctors to keep a victim alive.
A traumatic injury causing arterial bleeding at a school can be caused by accidental or intentional acts, but we have lost kids to post-incident arterial bleeding injuries at schools in the past. Stop-The-Bleed training and equipping schools with tourniquets and would packing material, and training staff in their use, will save lives if a bad thing happens at a school. The After Action Reports from the October 2018 Las Vegas Massacre recommends Stop-The-Bleed medical supplies are made available at every large gathering in order to prepare for a Mass Casualty Incident (MCI). Every school is considered a large gathering on every school day, so it is important to store the proper equipment and train school staff in these simple procedures in order to work through the Manic Minutes if a bad thing happens at a school.
This is a hands-on workshop where attendees will be shown how to properly use a tourniquet and pack a wound in order to stop bleeding while waiting for paramedics to arrive on scene should there be a traumatic injury. Training supplies will be provided and attendees will practice on wound training simulators. No prior first aid or medical experience is necessary, as this presentation is designed to teach the lay person how to take life-saving actions if they are needed. These skills can be used anytime and anywhere.
The hands-on portion of this class is limited to twenty attendees, so we ask interested persons to sign up for this during the morning registration. All attendees are welcome to observe the training, and instructors will be available after the presentation is over to answer any questions attendees might have about how this training can be implemented into their school emergency management and safety programs. The only difference between action and inaction during the Manic Minutes is our level of training and preparedness, pre-incident.
Unify Your School Safety Systems
Join CrisisGo and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to discover the next generation in school safety. Discover how schools across California and the US are getting more out of the investments they have already made in school safety enhancements – and how smart devices we use in our homes can be used in schools to improve safe learning environments.
Benefit from experienced guest speakers sharing their knowledge, insights and experience. Take away some actionable ideas to inspire your school safety enhancements. Attendees will receive a free back-to-school safety toolkit.
Bill Reynolds, VP Sales for CrisisGo
Kelly Moore, Safety Coordinator at Santa Barbara Unified School District
Steve Webb, Superintendent at Goreville Community Unit School District 1
Tim Ware, Director of School Safety for San Diego County Office of Education
CrisisGo/AWS
Helping Adults Understand Teen Cultures
Deputy Jay Martin
Kristen Amicone
Jeff Kaye
Adults who understand the digital & drug trends of youth today while establishing social, emotional learning (SEL) framework will succeed the most with children. This workshop provides the tools, resources and best practices that bring adults up-to-speed on the latest tendencies with teens around digital platforms - (Apps, social media, gaming), device use, vaping & THC prevalence. Please join us for this 2-hour session designed to help any adult attain success with youth when discussing or educating on these sensitive teen culture topics.
Conference room lobby area
ISSI staff and welcome from San Diego’s Chief of Police, David Nisleit
On December 1, 1997 a 14-year-old freshman boy, who had been bullied for years, walked into the Heath High School lobby in West Paducah, Kentucky, and randomly fired a .22-caliber semi-automatic pistol. Three students were killed. Five were injured. One of the critically injured girls was 15-year-old sophomore Missy Jenkins, who was left paralyzed from the chest down. But just hours after the shooting, Missy did the unthinkable: she forgave the shooter, accepted her disability, and reclaimed her life.
During the next 21 years, Missy would graduate from college, become a counselor for troubled students, marry her college sweetheart, give birth to two children, speak publicly about her life to tens of thousands of youth and adults, write an award-winning memoir and confront the shooter face to face in prison. She would earn many local and national honors, from “Kentuckian of the Year” to one of Ladies’ Home Journal’s “Most Fascinating Women,” and would appear on “Oprah,” “Good Morning America,” “Dateline,” and “Anderson Cooper 360.”
This is one woman’s story of love, forgiveness, courage and determination that will leave listeners of all ages inspired to make the most of each day.
We’ve taken our attendees to the edge of best practices in school safety in past conferences. Now it is time to move beyond, and explore ways to prevent threats to the safety of our students and staff instead of just responding to them. This motivational presentation by a recognized expert in school safety will look at what is required for schools to do to keep them safe, but more importantly, will also look at what is not required. Proactive measures to address safe school culture and climate are just as important as securing our schools. Target hardening our schools is necessary, but the best safety products on the market are worthless if we don’t also target harden the mind. Safety products can be expensive, but we can change mindsets for free…
This presentation will benefit anyone from the education or law enforcement industries who are involved with safe school culture and climate. Collaboration between law enforcement, mental health, and education will be discussed in this presentation. Funding for school safety programs will also be a presentation topic. Attendees will gain valuable and realistic takeaways they can immediately begin implementing at their schools to help keep them safe.
Representative of St. Gobain “Solar Guard”
There is one degree of separation between each of us knowing someone who is addicted to drugs or alcohol. This is especially true in today’s opioid crisis. Much of this activity starts with school age children, and high school age teens are considered a high risk age group for drug and alcohol use and abuse. This is where our education efforts must focus to address the problem. In order to educate our students on this problem, we must first understand it. How we got to this stage with the opioid crisis, how drugs like heroin and fentanyl are affecting our youth and our society in general, trafficking methods and how drugs are actually coming into our country, and what drugs we’re seeing used or abused with teens will be topics of this presentation. Many states are now legalizing marijuana, but it’s not just marijuana being sold. These are actually products containing high amounts of Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), so it’s not the “weed of the 70’s” our youth is being exposed to. Use of edible THC, vaping THC oil, and the effects of THC on the teen brain are also topics covered during this presentation. John Callery is an expert in these topics, and attendees will leave this presentation with valuable information that will help them understand the problems related to youth drug use and addiction. This presentation will greatly benefit anyone who deals with teens either in their professional or personal lives.
Officer William Chapman, Newtown , CT. Police Department
The presenter will talk through some realities of youth culture, and ways to think beyond the physical security of schools to promote a better social/emotional environment. He will work through the B.L.A.S.T acronym (Bored, Lonely, Angry, Scared, Tired) and talk about ways to teach in a trauma-informed classroom. Topic matter will be presented through the lens of relational policing and a strong relationship between educators and officers, and the "Right People Right Mindset" philosophy.
There is an increased interest in the role that School Climate plays in school safety. In this session, we will explore the links between achievement, safety and climate, and what simple, proven steps we can all take in that regard. We will look at what the research tells us, and Dan will share his experiences as a superintendent and as a member of the Nevada State School Emergency Preparedness Team. Participants will leave with actionable knowledge on how to improve student and staff safety at little or no cost.
Please see ISSA staff for recommendations on local dining and areas of interest for the evening. There are several restaurants on Harbor Island in walking distance in addition to the restaurant at the resort. The downtown Gaslamp District is a short distance away, and Uber or similar ride sharing services are the recommended mode of transportation.
Using case examples from a number of school community threat related behavioral incidents we will explore the success and recent challenges we face. We will demonstrate how you ensure you don't miss pre-incident warning signs or leakage (FBI 2018). Using digital data we will also explore how you can create sociograms to identify negative peer group evolution in your communities. The leakage we have seen by an individual(s) on a pathway to engage in serious violence are similar risk factors exhibited by those who are being radicalized towards terrorism and extremist ideology, considering suicide, and those planning a school attack.
Comprised of 18 agencies, including San Diego Police Dept, San Diego Sheriff’s Dept, FBI, and the District Attorney’s Office. Additional partners include the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD), Escondido Union School District (EUSD), and the San Diego County Office of Education, Safety Net is a collaborative public safety program facilitated by the San Diego Police Foundation that has reached 195,000 middle school children and 7,500 educators on topics that are most critical to preventing crimes against children and keeping them safe through increased awareness of risky behaviors from themselves, their peers and adults.
We all can function at the highest levels when we are accountable for the ordinary.
There is nothing like a crisis that reveals true leadership; that is when it is tested and proven. Crisis situations are not the time to design your playbook on what you will do or what you will say to an entrusting community. Effective communication serves leaders well in the day-to-day management of internal and external factors and relationships but is especially important when faced with unforeseen emergencies. Schools have emergency plans but communication planning is often overlooked in the planning process. This presentation will walk you through strategic design and development of crisis communication planning as a function of your emergency management plan, and steps you can take to be better positioned to inform students, staff, parents and local stakeholders of potential or realized hazards as well best practices for collaborative efforts with law enforcement and how to engage with the media from local and national outlets.
Mark is the managing partner of the San Diego Office of Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud, and Romo. His office represents hundreds of California educational agencies and he has broad litigation experience in both state and federal courts. Mark’s presentation will look at liability issues as they relate to school safety.
Thank you for considering a sponsorship for the 2019 ISSI Conference. Be a part of a growing movement of thought leaders and advocates working to educate school administrators, resource officers and parents on best practices to proactively address and respond to today’s complex challenges. Our sponsorship packages are packed with benefits that help you interact with attendees and participate in the Conference all while promoting your business. Call us at 858.472.3682 to take advantage of the limited number of exhibitor and non-exhibitor opportunities.
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