Visit the REMS TA Center Calendar to find trainings,
Web chats, conferences, and other stakeholder
activities and events for K-12 and higher ed
practitioners on comprehensive school safety
topics. All events featured are FREE to participate
in and range from virtual to in-person opportunities
for engagement and professional development.
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Planning for Individuals With Disabilities
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Incorporate Bullying Prevention Into Your School EOP
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Even though National Bullying Awareness and Prevention
Month has ended, education agencies can plan to address
and prevent bullying throughout the year. Behavioral
threat assessment studies have shown that most attackers
were victims of bullying, and others, such as bystanders,
most often observed acts of bullying. Schools can work
with community partners to implement comprehensive programs
to promote and encourage safe and supportive school climates.
Bullying prevention programs may help foster a healthy environment
where students feel empowered to report bullying when they
witness it or are victims of it and where school authorities
can intervene. Your education agency can take steps to
include bullying prevention within your EOP and become an
upstander for bullying prevention for your education agency by
- Learning more about bullying and its impacts. Bullying can affect the whole school community. Learning more about how it affects the individual and the school culture and climate is critical. You can learn more about this topic from Stopbullying.gov.
- Developing or updating your Bullying and Cyberbullying Annex by viewing our Webinar on this topic, Using the School Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) Framework to Support Bullying Prevention Efforts. Maintaining your Bullying and Cyberbullying Annex of your school EOP is essential to maintaining a safe school climate.
- Employing bullying prevention programs for your education agency to bolster your Bullying and Cyberbullying Annex. You can start by visiting Stopbullying.gov. This Federal Website contains helpful resources and tools to support schools in preventing, identifying, and addressing bullying.
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Request the NEW Synchronous Training for Institutions of Higher Education
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The REMS TA Center has developed a NEW resilience strategies
training for institution of higher education (IHE)
administrators, faculty, staff, students, and their
community partners. This synchronous training is available
through the Live Trainings by Request and
Virtual Trainings by Request programs and presents approaches to resilience for
college and university personnel who work directly with students,
faculty, and staff during times of personal and community crises.
Throughout this in-person and virtual training opportunity,
the REMS TA Center’s Subject Matter Expert trainers present
information on dimensions of compassion fatigue, including
occupational burnout, the unique aspects of IHE campus culture
and climate, the relationship between trauma and resilience when
crises occur, the development of a self-care plan, and Psychological
First Aid. Participants will learn resilience strategies that can
be used to increase their ability to work more effectively with
their peers, students, faculty, and staff impacted by stress, loss,
and trauma brought on by emergency events, including, but not limited to,
community or family violence and economic hardship. This training can assist
IHEs in their health, social, emotional, and behavioral recovery efforts
before, during, or after an emergency event.
To request this training, complete and submit the Training by Request Host Site Application. You will receive an email notification
acknowledging receipt of the application within 3 days of applying.
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Protect Your School From Infectious Disease
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Infectious diseases are constantly emerging and
evolving. Community outbreaks of the flu, the common
cold, and variants of COVID-19 can occur at any time. The
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
points out that schools are especially vulnerable
because caring for children involves close contact
between individuals.
The fall and winter months are a great time to focus
on preventing and mitigating the spread of infectious
disease. Visit the CDC’s
Guidance for School Administrators to Help Reduce the Spread of Seasonal Influenza in K-12 Schools and brief your school community
on signs and symptoms of infectious diseases, best practices
for hand hygiene, and the importance of staying home when sick.
The REMS TA Center offers a variety of resources and trainings
to support your infectious disease prevention and recovery efforts.
Strengthen your EOP through the online course
School EOPs In-Depth: Planning for Infectious Diseases or your
training efforts through the Infectious Disease Planning module
in the Specialized Training Package. Find additional practices,
tips, and strategies in the resources below:
Be sure to tune in and take action during National Influenza Vaccination Week this December 4-8. Together, we can lessen infectious disease spread in our schools and school districts.
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Hybrid Training Program in Maryland
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Using funds from the Grants to States for School Emergency Management, the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) is developing a hybrid emergency preparedness training opportunity. This training will include online, self-paced learning modules that participants can take to earn credits. MSDE partnered with Maryland Public Television to turn the existing emergency preparedness curriculum into a hybrid option. The curriculum concludes with an optional capstone activity that requires participants to conduct an in-person tabletop exercise with other staff members at their education agency. By completing the full course, including the capstone activity, participants can earn continuing professional development credits through MSDE. This type of professional development training offers participants an opportunity to learn about high-quality EOPs, practice that learning with a collaborative exercise, and earn credit along the way. MSDE will invest in adding additional modules that will include additional comprehensive approaches to school safety. This will include other aspects of safety such as interdisciplinary teaming and cross-system/sector alignments; school climate and culture; safe, inclusive, and supporting learning environments; social, emotional, behavioral, and mental health/well-being; and discipline.
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