Like 1 Tweet 0 Share Click to view this email in a browser Training Opportunities School Safety Coordinator Workshops - Round 2: Trenton - Monday, May 4 Maryville - Tuesday, May 5 Hannibal - Wednesday, May 6 Resilient Schools Facilitator Summit: June 8-12, 2015, Kansas City, MO Registration Multi-Hazard Emergency Planning for Schools - South Central Missouri: June 16-17, 2015, Rolla, MO Hosted by Rolla 31 School District and presented by SEMA Contact CES for more details, [email protected]. Website of the Month: Building Blocks to School Safety A Toolkit for Schools and Districts for Developing High-Quality Emergency Operations Plans Website Announcements: 2015 Safe Schools and Colleges Conference September 29-October 1, 2015 Agenda coming soon! Check www.moces.org. Contact CES 200 Madison Street, Suite 320 Jefferson City, MO 65101 573-445-9920 [email protected] www.moces.org School Safety Coordinator Workshops - Round 2 Due to the positive response to the first few School Safety Coordinator workshops in 2015 and because we weren’t able to schedule for the northern area of the state during the first round of workshops, the Missouri Center for Education Safety is presenting three more workshops. The workshop will bring you information on high-quality, up-to-date, school safety planning. Click a location and date to register: Trenton - Monday, May 4 Maryville - Tuesday, May 5 Hannibal - Wednesday, May 6 Workshop Agenda: 9:30 a.m. - Legal Update, MSBA Policy Division 11:30 a.m. - Lunch (box lunch provided) 12:00 p.m. - Emergency Planning/Missouri 1Plan, CES The cost is $49.00, which includes the boxed lunch. Please pass this opportunity along to others in your area or district that may not be receiving our emails or newsletter. The four-hour workshop is POST-certified. LAST CHANCE: Complete District Emergency Operations Plan – Self Assessment Tool The deadline to complete the tool has passed, but Paul Fennewald MSBA Advisor [email protected] Gary Moore Safety Coordinator [email protected] John Warner Planning Coordinator [email protected] David Martin Planning Assistant [email protected] Kara Sanders Administrative Assistant [email protected] Follow us on Twitter: @MissouriCES The Missouri Center for Education Safety is a partnership of the Missouri School Boards’ Association and the Missouri Department of Public Safety. © 2014-2015 Missouri Center for Education Safety you have one last opportunity to complete it by April 24 and receive a FREE USB thumb drive loaded with helpful emergency planning resources. Please complete the District Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) Self-Assessment Tool to ensure your school is served by a US Department of Education grant obtained by DESE to help schools identify any gaps and ensure every school has a high-quality emergency operations plan. 1. Start the self-assessment tool here: http://seiservices.qualtrics.com /SE/?SID=SV_4Jf9mhS4nuku0Jv&state=MO 2. If you experience any difficulty loading the tool, please copy and paste the above link into a different browser (IE, Chrome, Firefox) and click enter. 3. Answer each question in the designated fields to the best of your knowledge with your emergency planning efforts as they were prior to October 1, 2014. 4. After you submit the tool, email CES at [email protected] with “Completed Assessment Tool” in the subject line and provide your name and school district to receive a FREE USB thumb drive with emergency planning resources. This tool will be re-administered at the end of the grant in March 2016. This will help the US Department of Education determine the grant’s effectiveness in quality school emergency operations plans. Thank you to the hundreds of schools who have completed the tool! Celebrate America's PrepareAthon! Designing Safe Schools Webinar Thursday, April 30, 2015, 1:30 p.m. EDT Celebrate National PrepareAthon! Day by joining a webinar that provides insight on safety and security design and cost-effective features to consider for new construction of or retrofitting existing school buildings and grounds. Register for Designing Safe Schools: Planning and Retrofitting for Safety in Education Facilities here. Presented by the U.S. Department of Education's (ED) Office of Safe and Healthy Students (OSHS), with its Education Facilities Clearinghouse (EFC) and Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools (REMS) Technical Assistance (TA) Center Be Aware: "Ransomeware" “Ransomeware” is a hacker's dream and an IT professional’s nightmare. Recently, a number of law enforcement agencies in the US have been targeted, and even the FBI and Homeland Security could not recover their files absent the departments paying the ransom to the hackers. Are schools a target? Could you afford to loose all the digital records, including possibly your back-ups? A little due diligence will go a long way. Learn more at the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center.