Running head: SAFETY CALENDAR 1
Safety Calendar
Lekisha Morris
Grand Canyon University: EAD 536
7/8/2021
SAFETY CALENDAR 2
Safety Calendar
When thinking about the safety of the school, there must be emergency plans in place.
Administrators must prepare for these emergencies and this is why it is important for fire drills,
evacuations, and lockdowns to be practiced all throughout the school year. Trainings are
provided to teachers as well to ensure that they are following the proper procedures when
conducting these various emergency plans. Taking the time to create a calendar that informs
every one of the dates and times to practice these various emergency plans are important and I
will provide a sample of what one of these calendars should look like.
Monthly Fire Drills, Quarterly Lockdown Drills, Full School Evacuations & Teacher
Training
July
Tuesday 27th – Teacher Training
This is the second day back for staff for the new school/program year and training will be
given during the morning meeting of how fire drill and evacuations will take place for the
school.
August
Thursday 5th – 1st period/Homeroom (1st day of class)
All teachers will train students on procedures, what to do and how to behave, where to go
during fire drills and evacuations.
Wednesday 26th – Fire Drill – 3rd period
Classes on the East Side of the building (left of the front office) will leave out of the East
side door and walk over to the football field/ Classes on the West Side of the building
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(right of the front office) will leave out of the West side door and walk over to the
practice football field
*Debrief- Administration team with fire department and send an email to all faculty and
staff with positive feedback and any modifications that need to be made.
September
Friday 3rd – Lockdown Drill – 1st period
Student reports to teacher that there is a student in the bathroom with a weapon.
*Debrief – Administration team with the police department and the administration team
will address various issues with the teacher/teachers who were informed and an email
with positive feedback to faculty and staff will be sent out.
Monday 21st – Fire Drill – 5th period
East side of the building door is blocked. All faculty and students from the East side of
the school must exit out of the front doors and go across the street into the high school
parking lot/ Those on West side of building go out West side doors to the practice field.
*Debrief - Administration team with fire department and send an email to all faculty and
staff with positive feedback and any modifications that need to be made.
October
Monday 4th – Periods 1-8 (All Periods)
All teachers will remind students on procedures, what to do and how to behave, where to
go during fire drills and evacuations.
Tuesday 5th – Evacuation – 2nd Period
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No buses: Students will be escorted by staff to the new library & police station down
Yuma Road to the West side of the school. If that direction is not available, they will go
to the East side of the school to the Methodist Church on Yuma Road.
Buses: Students will be grouped onto buses and taken to the Methodist Church Parking
Lot on Yuma Road. All parents/guardians will be contacted via email/text
messaging/phone call.
*Debrief - Administration team with the police department & fire department and the
administration team will address various issues with the teacher/teachers who were
informed and an email with positive feedback to faculty and staff will be sent out.
Friday 15th – Fire Drill – 7th period
East and West Side doors are blocked. Staff and students must go through the front
school doors and cross the street to the high school parking lot.
*Debrief - Administration team with fire department and send an email to all faculty and
staff with positive feedback and any modifications that need to be made.
November
Thursday 4th – Fire Drill
Classes on the East Side of the building (left of the front office) will leave out of the East
side door and walk over to the football field/ Classes on the West Side of the building
(right of the front office) will leave out of the West side door and walk over to the
practice football field
*Debrief - Administration team with fire department and send an email to all faculty and
staff with positive feedback and any modifications that need to be made.
Tuesday 23rd – Evacuation Drill
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A family of Javelinas crawled under the fence and gained access to the school campus.
*Debrief – Administration team with the police department and the administration team
will address various issues with the teacher/teachers who were informed and an email
with positive feedback to faculty and staff will be sent out.
December
Wednesday 15th – Fire Drill
The football field is under construction for the students and faculty on the East side of the
building to go to so they must go to the baseball field instead which is adjacent to the
football field.
*Debrief - Administration team with fire department and send an email to all faculty and
staff with positive feedback and any modifications that need to be made.
January
Monday 3rd - Periods 1-8 (All Periods)
All teachers will remind students on procedures, what to do and how to behave, where to
go during fire drills and evacuations.
Friday 21st – Fire Drill
Practice football field is flooded due to a heavy rain from the previous day so the students
and staff from the West side of the building must go across the street to the high school
parking lot.
*Debrief - Administration team with fire department and send an email to all faculty and
staff with positive feedback and any modifications that need to be made.
February
Wednesday 9th – Lockdown drill – Lunch time
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A student was found with a handgun in their bookbag and when approached they ran out
of the West side doors of the school, jumped the fence, and ran into the woods across the
street of the school. Location of the student is unknown.
*Debrief – Administration team with the police department and the administration team
will address various issues with the teacher/teachers who were informed and an email
with positive feedback to faculty and staff will be sent out.
March
Monday 21st - Periods 1-8 (All Periods)
All teachers will remind students on procedures, what to do and how to behave, where to
go during fire drills and evacuations.
Thursday 31st – Fire Drill – 3rd period
Gym door is blocked. Students and staff must go through the storage closet to get to the
exit door to evacuate to the practice football field.
*Debrief - Administration team with fire department and send an email to all faculty and
staff with positive feedback and any modifications that need to be made.
April
Tuesday 19th – Fire Drill – Lunch
Lunchroom doors are blocked. Students and staff must go through the kitchen and out to
the cafeteria back service door to go to the football field.
*Debrief - Administration team with fire department and send an email to all faculty and
staff with positive feedback and any modifications that need to be made.
May
Wednesday 4th – Lockdown Drill – 4th period
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Students and staff receive suspicious emails to school accounts about a possible bomb
threat at the school.
*Debrief - Administration team with fire & police department and send an email to all
faculty and staff with positive feedback and any modifications that need to be made.
Friday 13th – Fire Drill – 5th period
Classes on the East Side of the building (left of the front office) will leave out of the East
side door and walk over to the football field/ Classes on the West Side of the building
(right of the front office) will leave out of the West side door and walk over to the
practice football field
*Debrief - Administration team with fire department and send an email to all faculty and
staff with positive feedback and any modifications that need to be made.
Teachers are provided with monthly trainings to ensure that they stay up to date with all
of the procedures as it pertains to fire drills, evacuations, and lock downs.
Rationale: Collaboration, Vision/Mission, Moral & Legal Considerations
The safety of the students and staff is important. To come up with this type of calendar,
it takes a collaborative effort to do so. Those at the district office as well as administration and
the leadership team at the school created the safety calendar. Everyone was mindful to leave
some flexibility within the calendar just in case there were some type of emergencies that
occurred where dates and times had to be changed. This calendar is shared within the leadership
team and not the staff. The leadership team and administration comes together and plan various
scenarios to ensure that the students and staff are mindful of the procedures that have been put in
place for safety measures during these situations.
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In the development of this calendar, there were many areas to consider such as the
legalities of the situations, the logistics and also how it would align with the mission, vision and
moral areas of the school. Moving the students from the school presented some legal and
logistical issues, but this is why in the beginning of the school year, parents are given various
consent forms to sign and return. Also, some could question the morality behind when we
contact parents during an evacuation, and we wanted to ensure that there was a system in place
where we would ensure staff and students were safe before parents were contacted.
Student and staff safety is our number one priority so taking the time to ensure that we
have and maintain various safety measures on the school campus is key to ensure that everyone
remains safe.
