Announcing Our New Website!
We are pleased to announce that the REMS TA Center Website has a new look! Designed to make it easier for YOU to find resources, tools, and training, our Website encompasses a new navigation, home page, and other pages across the site that house our Webinars, Tool Box, and Trainings by Request. Read on to see the new features or visit https://rems.ed.gov to check them out yourself.
Updated News & Highlights Carousel
When you first enter our Website, you will now find information on new resources and preparedness campaigns in our new carousel. Click directly on the slide and it will take you to the corresponding page to read more.
New Home Page Highlights
The home page also features sections that point you to upcoming virtual events, best practices in school and higher ed preparedness (including safety, security, and emergency management), in-person opportunities to connect with us, and areas of our Website that we want you to see.
Upcoming Events. Find upcoming Webinars and Web chats that we are hosting and national awareness days that we support. Use these virtual events to learn about topics in emergency management planning, share your knowledge, and engage in preparedness activities right from your location.
Best Practices. Download and read guides that are built upon years of emergency management work: The Role of Districts in Developing High-Quality School Emergency Operations Plans: A Companion to the School Guide, Guide for Developing School Emergency Operations Plans, Guide for Developing High-Quality Emergency Operations Plans, and A Training Guide for Administrators and Educators on Addressing Adult Sexual Misconduct in the School Setting.
#REMSontheRoad. See where we are traveling across the country via our Trainings by Request and conference participation. In September, we traveled to five states and the District of Columbia to deliver a total of eleven trainings. Are we coming to your area next?
Quick Links. Visit pages on the Website that are just one click away: request a live training, take an online course, access an archived Webinar, use an EOP interactive tool, request TA, download creative materials, find topic-specific resources, and read publications.
Easy to Use Navigation
The home page also features sections that point you to upcoming virtual events, best practices in school and higher ed preparedness (including safety, security, and emergency management), in-person opportunities to connect with us, and areas of our Website that we want you to see.
ABOUT: Find information on the REMS TA Center and who we serve, the Community of Practice and how to join, creative materials such as Web badges and email signature banners, and programs we support, including the Federal Commission on School Safety and its final recommendations to keep students safe at school, the U.S. Department of Education’s Grants to States for School Emergency Management grant program, the Great ShakeOut Earthquake Drills to practice what to do during earthquakes, and PrepareAthon to increase emergency preparedness and resilience in communities nationwide.
GUIDANCE: Read the at a glance version of the Guide for Developing School Emergency Operations Plans on K-12 emergency management planning, at a glance version of the Guide for Developing High-Quality Emergency Operations Plans for Institutions of Higher Education on higher ed emergency management planning, or downloadable A Training Guide for Administrators and Educators on Addressing Adult Sexual Misconduct in the School Setting on K-12 adult sexual misconduct prevention.
RESOURCES: Access Topic-Specific Resources from the REMS TA Center, U.S. Department of Education, and other Federal agency partners on over 20 topics, Publications and Guidance Documents that were produced by the REMS TA Center and Office of Safe and Supportive Schools in collaboration with Federal partners and practitioners, and State Emergency Management Resources that contains state-level information related to school and higher ed safety and emergency management.
TOOLS: Use our suite of EOP Interactive Tools in your emergency management planning activities, resources from your peers featured in our Tool Box, or our Emergency Management Virtual Toolkit to disseminate consistent information, guidance, trainings, and tools to schools that you serve .
TRAINING: Discover the training opportunities that we offer you: in-person Trainings by Request, archived Webinars, downloadable Specialized Training Packages that feature self-paced training materials, and self-paced Online Courses.
Refreshed and Interactive Webinars Page
All of the Webinars that we host throughout the year with subject matter experts are archived and accessible for viewing at a later date. We now have over 50 archived Webinars, and so we added a new search feature to our Webinars page to make it easier for you to filter and find one that suits your needs. You may search by audience, topic, or date to find a virtual training that is most relevant for you.
New Search Feature in the Tool Box
The Tool Box is a virtual library of over 300 tools developed by school and higher ed emergency managers in the field. Now you may use the new search feature on our Tool Box page to find resources created by your peers! Use the Basic Search to search by key words of audience or the Advanced Search to search by more criteria (e.g., type, topic, file format, language).
Submit Your Tools Via the Updated Form
Have you created tools, documents, templates, or presentations for your education agency to use in emergency management planning? Please submit your tools today to the REMS TA Center's Tool Box, so that other practitioners in the field can benefit from your great work! All authors are given credit for their tools within the Tool Box.
Redesigned Trainings by Request Page
The REMS TA Center’s Training by Request (TBR) program offers a variety of trainings for delivery on site at your education agency. Visit our TBR page to see what training topics we offer, as well as the intended audience and the minimum and maximum number of participants for each training.
New Step-by-Step Instructions for Hosting a TBR
We have outlined the step-by-step process for hosting a TBR so that you know what you can expect and the approximate timeline after you submit a completed TBR Host Application Form. Details include, but are not limited to, registration, training materials and supplies, training delivery, on-site registration, online evaluations, and certificates of participation and are all featured on our TBR page.
Share Your Feedback
Let us know what you think about the new Website and/or how we can continue improve it to meet your needs by contacting the REMS TA Center Help Desk at 1-855-781-REMS [7367] or info@remstacenter.org. You are also invited to complete and submit a TA Request and follow us on Twitter @remstacenter.
