Emergency Procedures

🔥 From our room, go out the exterior door on the left and then walk toward the parking lot (D Lot) on the left. 

🔥 Stay together as a group and stay calm. I will have my roster to ensure everyone is accounted for. 

🔥 Remain as a group outside until I instruct you to return to class.

🔥 Please return quickly to the room when instructed and wait quietly as I call role.

🔥 If you are out of the room but in B Building, please exit the building quickly and join us outside.

🔥 If you are out of the room and in a different building, please exit the building quickly and inform an administrator once you get outside.

🌪️ Go into the hall and kneel against the wall to the right of the door. (Try to stay away from the exterior door.)

🌪️ Put your hands over your head to protect yourself from falling debris.

🌪️ Please remain silent and huddle close to your neighbors. We have a lot of students and a limited amount of hall space.

🌪️ I know this drill feels silly. Please be patient and don’t complain. Remember that we care about you.

🌪️ If you are out of the room during a tornado drill, please follow the same procedures, but find a safe space in the hall where you are rather than trying to return to your class.

🔒Two types:

• “Minimum” Lockdown

• “Maximum” Lockdown

🔒Administration (or other authorized personnel) will come over the intercom and announce that we are going into a lockdown, and an alarm will sound. 

🔒During a lockdown of any kind, no one will be permitted to leave the classroom for any reason. (It’s an emergency, after all). 

Minimum Lockdown

🔒In a “Minimum” lockdown, we will continue with class as normal, but with a few exceptions:

🔒I will remove the magnet from the door lock strike plate, and the door will be locked and closed

🔒Those who are nearest the windows, please lower and close the blinds

Maximum Lockdown

🔒This lockdown is definitely more serious, so we need to make sure we treat it as such. 

🔒For this lockdown, we will take the following protocols:

🔒Whoever is closest to the windows, please lower and close the blinds.

🔒Everyone will move against the wall underneath the window. 

🔒Please do not sit in the direct path of the door to the hall. Sit close together to make room for everyone. 

🔒You MUST be silent! If there were an active shooter on campus, we would NOT want to advertise our whereabouts. 

If You are Out of the Room Durng a Lockdown.... 

🔒If you are out of the room during a lockdown, DO NOT try to come back to the classroom. Join a classroom close to you. 

🔒Move quickly so you don’t get locked out. 

🔒Teachers will sweep each building to guide you to their rooms.

🔒Be aware of your surroundings. Use common sense. 

🔒If you are outside of a building, use your best judgment in the situation…

🔒If you can make it safely into a building, do so as quickly as possible, and enter the first open classroom. 

🔒If you feel that your safest bet is to run, then run as if you life depends on it. Get as far away as you can. 

🔒Word to the wise: DO NOT try to get into your car; you’ll get to safety faster on foot. 

💣In the event of a bomb threat or other event that would require a necessary evacuation, we will follow the following plan:

💣Administration will announce evacuation. 

💣We will exit the building and go toward D Lot. 

💣From there, we will walk as a group to the track. Our designated area is the upper right quadrant of the track, near the field house. 

💣I will have my roster with me to make sure that everyone is accounted for 

💣From the track, we will load buses and will be taken to a safe, undisclosed location in the area.