DENVER (KDVR) — College leaders from districts throughout Colorado are coming collectively to maintain college students protected. The group joined the state’s Division of Public Security on Thursday to announce new disaster tips.

Colorado has seen its justifiable share of faculty tragedies. These leaders mentioned they’re placing their heads collectively now in hopes of stopping the following one.

“Colorado, sadly, has skilled 10 faculty shootings between 1999 and 2021. It’s resulted in 18 murdered and 48 wounded,” mentioned John McDonald, with Jeffco Public Faculties Division of College Security. McDonald labored with Christine Harms, of the Colorado College Security Useful resource Heart, to get different educators and security consultants on board to craft the steerage.

On the heels of the twenty third anniversary of the primary and most notable faculty capturing in Colorado’s historical past, at Columbine Excessive College, a bunch of educators and emergency managers gathered to say: no extra.

“We’re seeing the identical failures again and again and it has to get higher, we now have to do higher. Our college students, our employees, our colleges deserve higher than that,” McDonald mentioned.

Colorado faculty disaster tips unveiled

The group centered on defending college students of all ages, from larger training all the way down to kindergarten.
The rules begin with making ready colleges forward of a disaster, then they lay out tips on how to deal with an lively emergency, adopted by what colleges ought to do instantly after an incident and ending with tips on how to assist communities instantly after a disaster.

“These tips don’t substitute the emergency operations plans of any of our colleges, however they’re there to arrange them for these large-scale emergencies forward of time, to present them help throughout any of those sorts of occasions and to offer options to assist in the aftermath as they’re responding,” Harms mentioned.

They are saying they primarily based steerage on coaching fashions and former occasions.The group mentioned Colorado is main the best way with this effort.

“As somebody who works everywhere in the nation with faculty districts who simply skilled tragedy, I’ve not seen such a complete program wherever else within the nation. I really like the truth that Colorado is main the best way,” McDonald mentioned.