Why Your Teachers Need to be On-Board with Your New Security Plan

With security threats looming over our children and schools it can often feel difficult for the administration and management of these facilities to find the right solutions to keep their students and staff safe.  We have seen many organizations offer up and implement one solution to the security risks of their schools.  While we wish that school security was as simple as hiring more security officers the truth is it is not and just one solution will not be enough to combat safety risks faced by schools in this day and age.

There Is Not Just One Solution to Security Threats

At SRMC we believe wholeheartedly that security must be approached at the holistic level and customized with security solutions for your unique situation.  Through a comprehensive assessment of your organization's threats, the creation of a strategic plan, and the training of staff to implement your plan; we feel that this will create the most effective security options to keep your students, staff, and teachers as safe as possible.

Build Your New Security Plan As A Team

Implementing a new security plan can make your staff and teachers feel uncertain, fearful, and even skeptical.  Therefore it is important to not only tell your staff and teachers about your new plan but include them from the beginning of the process.  These essential members of your school community should be heard and kept abreast of all changes to policies and procedures throughout the process of creating and implementing a new security plan.  SRMC will help you build a security team that will then help put a new security plan together.

Teachers Offer A Unique Perspective

Seeing your teachers as partners will help you build the most successful security plan for your school. Teachers understand the inner workings of the school and habits of students better than anyone and their input is invaluable when building your new security plan.  Take the time to discuss your ideas and listen to their feedback, after all the teachers will be the ones responsible for carrying out your security plan when they are faced with a threat.

Your Security Plan Will Be Most Effective If Everyone Is On-Board

It is absolutely critical that teachers not only understand the security plan but believe in it.  It is necessary for every piece of the puzzle to work together to complete the job of keeping your school safe.  If your school is faced with a threat you must feel confident that the teachers will trust in the plan and carry it out as instructed to reduce the risk of harm for themselves and their students.  Repeated training, conducting exercises and the opportunities for teachers to discuss any flaws or hiccups they have encountered in policies or procedures during these exercises, will help you identify problem areas that can be addressed and corrected before there is a real threat situation.

With our unique and effective approach to finding the right security solution for you; our team at SRMC can help you audit your security risk, devise a new security plan that is compliant with any local or state requirements and implement your new plan to keep your school as safe as possible.  Contact us to discuss options on how we can help your organization.