Disaster and Crisis Management Plan
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It is
important during an emergency that all school personnel conduct themselves in a
professional manner and demonstrate through their actions that degree of
expertise which promotes confidence.
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What you
do in the first ten minutes will make a major difference in reducing the panic
of your students. Above all else,
remain calm. Use the next fifty
minutes to perform your assigned tasks and attempt a return to normalcy.
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Faculty
are to remain with their students at all times during an emergency until
relieved by administration.
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Do not
release students until authorized to do so by administration.
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Faculty
and staff are first responsible for the students under their care.
As difficult as it is, personnel should not abandon their post to go
check on their own children who may also be students on the campus.
Remember that another adult has responsibility for your children and they
are doing their job. If you hear
that your child has a serious injury, ask your administrator to relieve you from
your post.
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Faculty
and staff are much like civil emergency personnel during an emergency.
Police and fire crews must remain on the job even though they may have a
crisis within their homes. Faculty
and staff are charged with the emergency care of children during a crisis and
should remain on their assigned post until relieved of all responsibilities.
If you become aware of a serious crisis at your home, you may ask your
administrator to relieve you from your duties.
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It is the
responsibility of all faculty and staff to report all rumors and observations regarding information
which might lead to a campus emergency. Such
reports should be made immediately to their supervisor.
Supervisors will see that the information is immediately reported to the
Superintendent. Faculty and staff are not
to make final assessments as to the lethality of the rumor or observation and
its potential to evolve into a campus emergency; they are to report.
Faculty of early elementary age students are given the flexibility to
discern whether or not the situation demands a report.
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Teach
students to understand that jokes and false reports regarding weapons, bomb
threats or threats of injury to others are not acceptable under any
circumstances and will be taken seriously.
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In case
of an extended stay on campus, maintain an extra supply of personal prescription
medication with you at all times.
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