Best Practices
This is the only place visitors are allowed to enter the school.
What is the single point of entry?
This must happen if a classroom door is left unlocked or open for any reason other than class transitions.
What is active staffing by a person?
Florida law requires each school to establish this team to identify and manage threats.
What is a Behavioral Threat Assessment Team?
Florida law requires schools to conduct this many emergency drills each school year, separate from fire drills.
What is six?
One of the six required emergency drills must occur within this time frame at the start of the school year.
What is the first 10 days?
All visitors should go through this process before entering the campus.
What is screening or vetting?
These must be both clearly visible and designated in instructional spaces for emergency sheltering.
What are the safest areas?
Threat assessment teams must include members with expertise in these four areas.
What are counseling, instruction, school administration, and law enforcement?
Four of the six emergency drills must focus on this type of threat.
What are active threats?
This report is provided within three school days after an unannounced compliance visit.
What is the Florida School Safety Compliance Inspection Report?
These are used to block classroom windows during a lockdown.
What are emergency covers?
These must remain locked at all times unless it has an exemption on FSSAT.
What are campus access gates or doors?
This model helps distinguish between transient and substantive threats.
What is the Florida’s Harm Prevention and Threat Management Model?
Schools must use this type of language to communicate during drills and real emergencies.
What is plain language?
The school safety specialist must respond in writing within this time frame after receiving a deficiency notice.
What is three (3) school days?
It includes items such as gauze, bandages, tourniquets, and gloves.
What is stop the bleed kit?
This administrative figure does not control an SRO’s law enforcement duties but does oversee their participation in school programs.
Who is the school principal?
Threat assessment teams are not solely punitive—they also focus on this.
What is early intervention and support?
This report must be completed after every emergency and fire drill to document the event and identify improvements.
What is an after-action report?
Team members newly appointed to threat management teams must complete Florida Model training within these many days.
What is sixty (60) days?
These devices should be installed in key areas like entrances, hallways, and playgrounds to monitor activity.
What are surveillance cameras?
This program allows trained school employees to be armed and provide security on campus.
What is the Coach Aaron Feis Guardian Program?
These may be offered to students of concern as part of a support plan.
What are mental health referrals and support services?
This mobile panic alert system, required in Florida schools, is named in honor of a school shooting victim.
What is Alyssa's Alert?
School safety specialists must complete a school security risk assessment by this date each year.
What is October 1?