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7 Ways Superintendents and Principals Can Effectively Lead During a School Crisis [via Campus Safety Magazine] https://lnkd.in/gJCcAYgv #safetysolutions #schoolsafety #massnotification

Do you want to learn about how to keep children safe from exploitation? Our Contextual Safeguarding Course is an opportunity for you to: - ➡️Learn what Contextual Safeguarding is and how it works in practice. ➡️Learn about the history of Contextual Safeguarding and its principles. ➡️Understand the Ivison Trust Relational Safeguarding Model. ➡️Understand how Contextual Safeguarding and Relational Safeguarding can work in unison to create a holistic, robust safeguarding plan for children at risk of exploitation. ➡️Learn how to work with the Contextual Safeguarding approach beyond referrals and how to use assessment frameworks. ➡️Understand safety mapping, case weighting and partnership working. ➡️Learn the importance of quality assuring language. ➡️Apply learning to a case study This course is CPD accredited. Register today at https://lnkd.in/e5z7N5kG #ChildSafety #SafeguardingTraining #ContextualSafeguarding #CPDAccredited #PartnershipWorking #IvisonTrust

📢 Webinar Alert: Supporting The Safeguarding Lead At Your School by Priya Mitchell 🗓️ Date: 31st May ⏰ Time: 5-6 PM SGT (GMT+8) 🔗 Sign up for free: https://lnkd.in/gW6q2REB Join us for an essential webinar designed for safeguarding leaders and school administrators. "Supporting The Safeguarding Lead At Your School" will uncover the often-overlooked challenges and hidden pressures of safeguarding duties. Gain valuable insights into how these demands can affect your effectiveness and well-being, and learn strategies to provide deep support and enhance the well-being of your school's safeguarding lead. What you'll learn: ✨ Understand the complex challenges of safeguarding roles ✨ Recognize the hidden pressures and demands ✨ Discover ways to enhance well-being and support Take the first step towards a more supportive and effective safeguarding environment in your school. Register now! #Safeguarding #Webinar #EducationSupport #SchoolSafety #FreeWebinar

PREPaRE W1 (Lawrence) 03/19/2024 @ 8:00am - 4:00pm Participants will learn how to establish and sustain comprehensive school safety efforts that attend to both physical and psychological safety. The workshop addresses critical components needed to develop, exercise, and evaluate safety and crisis teams and plans and conduct building vulnerability assessments. The model also integrates school personnel and community provider roles in providing school-based crisis preparedness and response activities. Additional topics addressed also include media/social media, communication, reunification, students with special needs, culture, and memorials. After this workshop, participants will be better prepared to improve their school’s climate, student resilience, and crisis response capabilities of school personnel. With updated research and strategies, this workshop makes a clear connection between ongoing crisis prevention, mitigation, protection, and response. PREPaRE workshops offer NASP-approved CPD’s (7) for completion of this professional development. SLS Members: $0, materials included Non-SLS Members: $250, materials included Register HERE: https://hubs.la/Q02hsSwf0

Robust crisis management is essential for schools, but how can you be sure that you are following best practice? At our joint spring education conference with Harrison Clark Rickerbys, we will discuss how academies and maintained schools can effectively handle a crisis and manage the school’s reputation in the aftermath of an incident. Find out more: https://hubs.li/Q02r1GHL0 #academies #schools #conference

PREPaRE W1 (Lawrence) 03/19/2024 @ 8:00am - 4:00pm Participants will learn how to establish and sustain comprehensive school safety efforts that attend to both physical and psychological safety. The workshop addresses critical components needed to develop, exercise, and evaluate safety and crisis teams and plans and conduct building vulnerability assessments. The model also integrates school personnel and community provider roles in providing school-based crisis preparedness and response activities. Additional topics addressed also include media/social media, communication, reunification, students with special needs, culture, and memorials. After this workshop, participants will be better prepared to improve their school’s climate, student resilience, and crisis response capabilities of school personnel. With updated research and strategies, this workshop makes a clear connection between ongoing crisis prevention, mitigation, protection, and response. PREPaRE workshops offer NASP-approved CPD’s (7) for completion of this professional development. SLS Members: $0, materials included Non-SLS Members: $250, materials included Register HERE: https://hubs.la/Q02hsXsG0

Your spring term essentials, sorted. We've pulled together a selection of resources, guidance and CPD to help share the load – so you and your team can ease into the spring term, feeling confident and in control of what’s ahead. Take a look ⬇️ 1️⃣ If you’re a headteacher or senior leader, keep on top of your regular and unique tasks for this spring term with our downloadable checklist – freshly updated for spring 2024: https://key.sc/termlytasks 2️⃣ Make sure you and your team are aware of the signs of potential safeguarding concerns to keep an eye out for when pupils return from the holidays. Use our tips to help support your pupils, families and staff: https://lnkd.in/eskxQHbq 3️⃣ If you’re a DSL, refresh your colleagues’ safeguarding knowledge on the key information from your September training. Our spring term briefing pack has all you need, including a presentation, facilitator notes and a staff factsheet: https://lnkd.in/eQFkB59W 4️⃣ Discover the headline issues you're likely to cover in your full governing board meeting this term. Make sure you understand each issue, and feel prepared with further reading and questions you can ask to interrogate agenda items effectively: https://lnkd.in/eCC-uXEC 5️⃣ Help secondary school teachers of all experience levels learn how to get assessment and feedback right. Book on to our Certificate in Effective Assessment and Feedback course, run by Michael Chiles. Be fast, booking closes on 16 January: https://key.sc/CPDsignup ✉️ Look out for all these resources and more, in your upcoming weekly member emails! They’ll be returning to your inbox on 9 January 2024. If you’re not yet a member of The Key, find out more and sign up: https://lnkd.in/eH2idcgi

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PREPaRE W1 (Girard) 03/27/2024 @ 8:00am - 4:00pm Participants will learn how to establish and sustain comprehensive school safety efforts that attend to both physical and psychological safety. The workshop addresses critical components needed to develop, exercise, and evaluate safety and crisis teams and plans and conduct building vulnerability assessments. The model also integrates school personnel and community provider roles in providing school-based crisis preparedness and response activities. Additional topics addressed also include media/social media, communication, reunification, students with special needs, culture, and memorials. After this workshop, participants will be better prepared to improve their school’s climate, student resilience, and crisis response capabilities of school personnel. With updated research and strategies, this workshop makes a clear connection between ongoing crisis prevention, mitigation, protection, and response. PREPaRE workshops offer NASP-approved CPD’s (7) for completion of this professional development. SLS Members: $0, materials included Non-SLS Members: $250, materials included Register HERE: https://hubs.la/Q02ggm070

PREPaRE W1 (Girard) 03/27/2024 @ 8:00am - 4:00pm Participants will learn how to establish and sustain comprehensive school safety efforts that attend to both physical and psychological safety. The workshop addresses critical components needed to develop, exercise, and evaluate safety and crisis teams and plans and conduct building vulnerability assessments. The model also integrates school personnel and community provider roles in providing school-based crisis preparedness and response activities. Additional topics addressed also include media/social media, communication, reunification, students with special needs, culture, and memorials. After this workshop, participants will be better prepared to improve their school’s climate, student resilience, and crisis response capabilities of school personnel. With updated research and strategies, this workshop makes a clear connection between ongoing crisis prevention, mitigation, protection, and response. PREPaRE workshops offer NASP-approved CPD’s (7) for completion of this professional development. SLS Members: $0, materials included Non-SLS Members: $250, materials included Register HERE: https://hubs.la/Q02ggdQ-0