| March 1, 2019 |
| 12:30 pm |
Registration Check-in |
| 1:00 pm – 1:15 pm |
Welcome |
| 1:15 pm – 2:30 pm |
School Security: “A Work in Progress”
Presenter:
Phil Santore
 2.75 LU/HSW
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In recent years, a rash of deadly violence in our nations’ schools have thrust educational security into the daily conversation, both within and outside of the professional security industry. Opinions on the subject range from a hands-off approach to tactical preparation and response. Is there a balance to be struck?
How can we work to generate pragmatic and meaningful standards and best practices? For new schools that are being designed with security in mind, what is the latest thinking on how to create a secure learning environment without impacting the educational mission? How can we address existing schools?
This workshop focuses on preventing an event from ever happening – not responding to one that already has.
Learning Objectives:
- What is our mission?
- Review school security stakeholders and the importance of their role in ensuring that the educational mission is not compromised.
- Review architectural design parameters for new schools (CPTED) – i.e., ballistic/force resistant materials and construction, visitor processing, etc.
- Review of what was implemented at Sandy Hook.
- Outline various constraints when it comes to educational security, including budgets, limited manpower, and opinionated stakeholders.
- Discuss the role of technology in securing schools, particularly given the most common levels of dedicated school security staffing and budget.
- Discover whey there is no “one size fits all”.
- Building a successful security program.
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| 2:30 pm – 2:45 pm |
Break |
| 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm |
Continuation – School Security: “A Work in Progress”
Presenter:
Phil Santore
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| 4:15 pm – 5:15 pm |
“SafetEEE in Numbers”
Presenters:
Joe Vela, AIA, Principal, Aedis Architects
Cheryl Galloway, Manager of Facilities Use, Safety and Energy, Gilroy Unified School District
1 LU/HSW
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Creating secure school campuses is a complex task that is critical for all school districts but can be cost prohibitive. Gilroy Unified School District in Norther California has gone beyond basic state and education code requirements to increase school safety using three E’s – Engagement, Environment, and Education. In this workshop, learn about utilizing internationally recognized safety programs, implementing simple measures at schools, and collaboratively designing sites to increase safety and security across the board.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will create a step-by-step plan for improving safety and security at their school districts.
- Participants will learn of experiences, pitfalls and successes shared by District staff and the design Architect.
- This workshop enables administration, M&O, and Facilities Managers to use Engagement, Environment, and Education to cost effectively improve SafetEEE in Numbers on all district sites.
- Participants will walk away with a plan to implement design elements, increase engagement, and educate school community members on making a safer place for all students to thrive and learn.
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| March 2, 2019 |
| 8:00 am – 9:30 am |
“Designing for Emerging Threats in School Security and Safety with CPTED”
Facilitator and Presenter:
Randy Atlas, Ph.D., FAIA, CPP
1.5 LU/HSW
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The plenary session and break out sessions will address the methodology for conducting crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) risk assessment and the value of involving the security team and survey in the architecture and design process for new schools and renovations and retrofits. The fast pace of security technologies for schools is posing a challenge to schools because of the integration of the new technologies with old existing technologies. This session will demonstrate the priorities of what are reasonable and achievable goals to provide security to the assets of your schools – students, faculty, buildings, data, and image and reputation. Participants in the session will see examples of good and bad applications of security technologies, barriers, and design choices.
Key Points:
- What are the assets that demand protection in school environments
- How do you determine the level of risk from the school vulnerabilities and threats
- What is CPTED and how does it apply to schools
- What are the emerging technologies to protect schools from active shooters
- How do you negotiate and balance life safety decisions from security crime prevention decisions
- Demonstrations of how to use CPTED into the plan review and architectural design process for your schools and facilities
- The breakout session will look at a local school for sample presentation
- Open question and answer session and discussion of topics raised by participants
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| 9:45 am – 11:00 am |
“Well Students, Safe Schools”
Presenters:
Dr. Poonam Desai, Ph.D., LSSP, NCSP, Licensed Specialist in
School Psychology, Dallas Independent School District
Dr. Giyoung Park, Senior Design Researcher, HKS, Inc.
Ashley Flores, Education Strategist, HKS, Inc.
1.25 LU/HSW
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To minimize the destruction that comes with the unthinkable, we install safety vestibules and cameras in schools, practice lockdown drills regularly, adopt rapid communication protocols, and write policies – like requiring clear backpacks for students. We expend tremendous energy and resources on these efforts but often fail to attend to that which might have prevented the unthinkable in the first place: mental health and wellness in students. Among high school students in 2017, 31% reported they felt sad or hopeless almost every day for two or more weeks in a row; 17% reported they seriously considered attempting suicide. There’s been a significant increase in depression among teens that has not been met with a commensurate increase in mental health supports. And worst of all, a third of students reported that they were bullied at school last year, up from a quarter two years ago. Join us for a panel discussion on how an understanding of and attention to childhood trauma as well as mental health and wellness can contribute to more inclusive, supportive, and safe school environments.
Learning Objectives:
- To understand the state of mental health and wellness among young people today and how it has changed over time.
- To consider how design can be a lever for community and inclusivity as well as mental health and wellness among students.
- To discuss the intersection between mental health and wellness and safety at school.
- To explore real examples of how schools are leveraging design to support student mental health and wellness.
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| 11:00 am – 11:30 am |
Networking Break
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| 11:30 am – 12:30 pm |
Lunch Working Session with Randy Atlas continued – “Legal Issues”
Presenter:
Randy Atlas, Ph.D., FAIA, CPP
1 LU/HSW
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| 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm |
“Designing and Implementing Low-Cost, High-Impact Solutions to Safety and Security: A Case Study”
Presenters:
Michael McCullar, Executive Director, Construction & Planning, Comal Independent School District
Joseph McKenna, Ph.D., Director of Safety and Security, Comal Independent School District
Andrew Kim, Superintendent, Comal Independent School District
1 LU/HSW
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This session will highlight safety and security strategies implemented in a fast-growing public school district in central Texas, with a focus on high-impact and low cost solutions. With all educational institutions being mindful of budget, but also needing to ensure the safety of security of their students and learning environment, solutions such as these are attractive, and in some cases necessary. The presenters will discuss, from a design and building standpoint, as well as a policy and procedure standpoint, the implementation of a lockdown alert system, building access control improvements, the design of new schools, and other features implemented to improve safety and security across the district.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will become familiar with the safety challenges of a fast-growing central Texas school district as well as the low cost high impact solutions to address these challenges.
- Participants will learn about how these low-cost, high-impact solutions were designed and implemented in a variety of different school throughout the district.
- Participants will learn about the policies and procedures designed to support the implementation and use of these new solutions.
- Participants will learn about design features that this district has worked into new construction to support safety and security.
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| 2:15 pm – 3:15 pm |
School District Presentation – “A Response to Governor Abbott's Plan to Address School Safety”
Presenters:
Scott Collins, Chief of Police, Aubrey ISO Police Department
Tony Chojnowski, Chief Operating Officer, True North
Consulting Group
Mikayla Jacob, Licensed Master Social Worker, Inpatient Psychotherapist
1 LU/HSW
In response to Governor Abbott’s call to action, this panel of experts will delve into urgent needs that schools face in addressing student health, safety, and welfare concerns. Panelists will address the bigger picture of what makes a student feel safe at school, including physical/structural, procedural, organizational, cyber/technical, digital/social media, behavioral, and social emotional security. This session will use a facilitated discussion approach.
Learning Objectives:
- At the end of the session, participants will be able to justify the advantages of assessing and planning for the learning community’s alignment of policy, funding, support services, and operations to increase support for architectural features intended to limit or prevent injuries and death among users of school facilities.
- At the end of the session, participants will be able to explain to a group of stakeholders how student safety is impacted by public perceptions of safety and what they can do to increase positive emotional responses among users of buildings or sites.
- At the end of the session, participants will be able to apply new ideas for designing with student health, safety, and wellness in mind by broadening their definition of safety to include physical, procedural, organization, cyber, digital/social media, behavioral, and social emotional security.
- At the end of the session, participants will be able to identify and articulate some of the salutary effects of Governor Abbott’s Plan for School Safety and will be able use the plan to justify incorporating key HSW elements into designs for current and future projects.
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| 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm |
“School Safety & Design: How do you engage the community?”
Presenters:
Peter Noonan, Superintendent, Falls Church Public Schools
Bill Bradley, PhD, AIA, LEEDap, Senior Associate, Stantec
Jeff Bonvechio, Regional Vice President, Brailsford & Dunlavey
1 LU
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The conversation around safety and security in schools is already incredibly tough between industry professionals and school administrators as we debate and collaborate on solutions, what about the next layer of talking to your communities about it. Discussions that could derail project schedules or scopes. This presentation is aimed to provide you with some go to techniques that will help decrease that burden and allow you to focus on design. Falls Church City Public Schools (FCCPS) is completing the design documents for a new 285,000 SF, $120M High School . The 1,500 student high school is located 7 miles outside of Washington DC within a community that is only 2.1 square miles. The project is transitioning this community from a suburban style high school campus to a 5-story vertical 21st century school. The community needed to discuss and understand the challenges with this transition as well as the sensitive and passionate topic of school safety and security. The community discussion related to school security and safety could have de-railed the entire design process but instead because of the engagement approach taken by FCCPS and the project team, the topic was given the needed attention and gave the community the certainty that is was being properly addressed. Attendees will hear from the FCCPS Superintendent, the Design Principal, and the Program Manager about the design strategies and challenges for multi-story high schools and how those design strategies and safety and security were discussed with the larger school community. This discussion will cover the community subcommittees formed, the process by which subcommittee members were selected, how the team interacted with the subcommittees, and how the subcommittees reported out to the community as a whole.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will understand new formats and structure for collaborating with the community
- Participants will learn methods for receiving and responding to feedback received during the design process
- Participants will learn about design strategies for multi-story high schools
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| 4:45 pm |
Closing
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