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Safe School Plan ContinuedSafe School VisionThe principal, staff, and community will work cooperatively to implement our school’s vision forsafety by providing the following.1. Collect information and develop actions to prevent and mitigate safety risks thereby reducingthe likelihood of a crisis or disaster and lessen the impact of an emergency situation.2. Prevention activities to enhance school safety and deflect a crisis before it occurs bymitigating or reducing the risks involved.3. Preparedness actions to include preparation of the school community for identified disastersand emergencies. Policies, checklists and safety procedures have been developed andadopted coinciding with the safety risks our school has identified.4. Increasing the school and communities’ capacity to respond to an emergency or crisis byoutlining the responses to be taken when a disaster or emergency strikes.5. Establishing collaborative relationships among the city, county, community agencies, locallaw enforcement, the judicial system and our school that lead to the development of a set ofcommon goals and community strategies to enhance safety and better prevent, mitigate,respond, and recover from a disaster or school-based emergency.6. Assessment of the school's physical environment, including a risk management analysis anddevelopment of ground security measures such as procedures for the closing of campuses tooutsiders, securing the campus perimeter, protecting buildings against vandalism, andproviding for a law enforcement presence on campus.7. Adopting a school-wide discipline plan that promotes effective social-psychological skill andknowledge development of students and prohibits misconduct including violence, weapons,and drugs.8. Disciplinary policies and procedures that contain prevention strategies, such as strategies toprevent harassment, bullying and hazing, as well as behavioral expectations andconsequences for violations of the discipline code.9. Development of a positive school climate that promotes respect for diversity, personal andsocial responsibility, effective interpersonal and communication skills, self-esteem, angermanagement, and conflict resolution.10. Educating each student in a safe physical environment and a respectful, accepting, andemotionally nurturing school environment.11. Developing and working cooperatively with parents and the community to build up eachstudent's resiliency skills and eliminate or manage risk factors in the student’s life.19