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School Emergency Management:
An Overview For State
Coordinators
Office of Safe and Healthy Students (OSHS)
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
(OESE)
U.S. Department of Education (ED)
What is a School Emergency
Management Plan?
A School Emergency Management plan:
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Is the first step to securing our schools and
protecting the school community;
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Addresses a wide range of events (natural,
man-made); and
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Addresses events that occur both in and
outside of the school and school day
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Comprehensive School Emergency
Management Plan
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Uses an all-hazards approach
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Developed with community partners
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Based on vulnerability assessment and tailored
to the individual district, school, and campus
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Practiced consistently, reviewed, revised
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Framed by the four phases
The Four Phases of School
Emergency Management
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What is the Prevention-Mitigation
Phase?
 Prevention is the action schools and districts
take to decrease the likelihood that an event or
crisis will occur
 Mitigation actions are steps that eliminate or
reduce the loss of life or property damage for
events that cannot be prevented (e.g., natural
disasters)
 Many hazards have both components
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What is the Preparedness Phase?
The Preparedness phase is designed to facilitate a
rapid, coordinated and effective response
The school community is strengthened by
coordinating with community partners on:
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Developing an emergency plan, policies and
protocols
Adopting the National Incident Management
System (NIMS) and the Incident Command
System (ICS)
Training, exercising, and revising the plan
What is the Response Phase?
 When emergency management plans are
activated to effectively contain and resolve an
emergency
 Response actives
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Activate the plan and the incident
command system (ICS)
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Activate the communication plans
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Deploy resources
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Account for students and staff and activate
the family reunification
Recovery Phase
 Designed to assist students, staff, and their
families in the healing process and to restore
operations in schools
 Has four primary components:
 Physical/structural recovery
 Business/fiscal recovery
 Academic recovery
 Psychological/emotional recovery
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Drills and Exercises
 Types:
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Evacuation drills
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Lockdown drills
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Shelter-in-Place
 Include community partners
 Inform plan revisions and new
efforts to work as a team
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Action Steps: What You Can Do
Now
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Identify and reach out to your State
Education Agency’s Emergency Manager
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Include them in planning meetings
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Work with them to ensure all of the local
liaisons are working with the local school
district’s emergency manager
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National Center on Safe Supportive
Learning Environments
• Funded by the U.S. Department of
Education’s Office of Safe and Healthy
Students and the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services’ Mental Health
Promotion Branch of SAMHSA
• Provides training and support to states,
including the 11 grantees funded under the
Safe and Supportive Schools Program, and
their participating Local Education Agencies
(districts)
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National Center on Safe Supportive
Learning Environments
• Provides information and technical assistance to
community colleges, institutions of higher
education, schools, districts, communities, states
and other federal grantee programs regarding the
improvement of conditions for learning.
• Goal is to improve conditions for learning in a
variety of settings, through measurement and
program implementation, so that all students have
the opportunity to realize academic success in
safe and supportive learning environments.
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Safe and Supportive Schools TA
Center http://safesupportivelearning.ed.gov
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The REMS TA Center
http://rems.ed.gov
 The REMS TA Center:
 Supports schools, school districts, and
institutions of higher education
 Supports the development and
implementation of comprehensive all-hazards
emergency management plans
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The REMS TA Center
http://rems.ed.gov
 The REMS TA Center:
 Provides information about school emergency
management (publications, webinars, training,
resource repository)
 Helps ED coordinate technical assistance
meetings and share school emergency
management information
 Responds to direct requests for technical
assistance and training on school emergency
management
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Additional Resources
 ED’s Emergency Planning (the Office of Safe
and Healthy Students)
http://www2.ed.gov/admins/lead/safety/em
ergencyplan/index.html
 The American Clearinghouse on Educational
Facilities (ACEF)
http://www.acefacilities.org/
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