Insights Featured What School Security Leaders Should Prioritize During Slower Periods Summer break and other quieter periods provide opportunities to assess vulnerabilities, improve preparedness, and focus on work that can be difficult to prioritize during the school year.
Webinars How School Safety Challenges Differ in Private and Charter Schools School safety leaders discuss funding constraints, community engagement, campus culture, and other factors that can influence how private and charter schools approach security and preparedness.
Insights More Than 40 States Require CPR Training for High School Graduation. Is Yours One of Them? CPR can double or triple a person's chance of survival after cardiac arrest. Here's where CPR training is required for graduation, how the mandates typically work, and what research says about teaching lifesaving skills in schools.
News Briefs School Safety Trends & Top Headlines: Traffic Safety Risks and the Debate Over School Resource Officers Recent headlines highlighted school zone safety initiatives, school bus safety concerns, and ongoing debates about the role, value, and oversight of school resource officers.
Research Survey Finds Schools Prioritizing Vape Detection, AI-Enabled Camera Monitoring Survey findings suggest schools are increasingly investing in technologies focused on prevention, detection, and situational awareness.
Insights 11 Practitioner Takeaways from ALERRT's School-Based Active Shooter Report While the report reinforces the importance of locked doors and access control, the findings also highlight why school safety is about more than hardware alone.
Discussion Board Digests Making School Safety Leadership More Visible: Mandates Need People Behind Them As schools face increasing mandates and expectations, how do we make the ongoing work behind prevention more visible?
Members only Discussion Board Digests Discussion Board Digest: Security Footage Requests, Drones, and Weapons Detection
Insights Top Questions School Safety Leaders Are Asking About Graduation Security A recent NCSSD webinar explored practical graduation security challenges, including venue screening and weather planning.
News Briefs School Safety Trends & Top Headlines: Drones, Mental Health, and Emerging K-12 Risks Explore recent school safety headlines, legislative updates, and trends influencing K-12 security leadership.
Insights 5 Graduation Security Best Practices for K-12 Schools School safety directors share practical lessons on graduation security planning, including crowd management, access control, parking security, and emergency response.
