No secret that across the nation, school safety has become a topic of very big interest. And so we wanted to ensure that we were building a very a rich technology, centered, innovative, designed school for our students. And with that comes a lot of safety concerns and things that it's just very important that we think through all of those features as we're designing the campus. If we don't have a situation where everybody feels safe and secure in order to learn, then all the other instructional components that we're worrying about don't matter. Having an emergency preparedness, running drills, just knowing what to do in a critical incident is huge. And I think everybody realizes that It's one thing to talk about it. It's one thing to actually drill it and train it. And I think that's what you have to do. If you haven't trained it, you're gonna start to panic, and that's when your blood pressure does go up. You gotta have structure in any kind of emergency situation, especially when you're involving kids and safety. Everybody's gotta have a role on a task, and they know exactly they're doing and they go execute that role. They don't have to think about it. I think the most rewarding of what I do is getting on-site with my districts and facilitating these these reunification exercises and really facilitating change and and how we think about safety and security today. In the morning session, Commander Hicks partnered with the city emergency manager top and they basically table topped a tornadic event that impacted three of their schools, as well as some city services too. Hoping to get out of this exercise today. It's for everybody to to get an idea for MRC to see what is the city doing or what see the services are gonna be available during emergency events such as the tornado. Alright. So welcome everyone, I appreciate everybody being here. We're going to talk a little bit further severe weather. We're going to talk about all the responsibilities, there are these after that sort of thing. So today sort of how this could work is we're going to have three modules for talk a little bit about severe weather. We're gonna talk about a tornado impact, but critical infrastructure might be impacted. Or when then, once the conclusion of this tabletop exercise, is we're going to then focus strictly on a full scale exercise. So impacts from the tornado within impact schools and hearing impaired to do reunification exercise to then exercise the process of reunifying our students with their parents. Cloud response graphics is a mapping and communications technique that we derive from special operations community, and then adapted it to a domestic crisis response. My favorite thing working with CRG is getting new drills like we did today and working hand in am with law enforcement and the educators and trying to kind of bridge that gap between the two of us for the great ultimate goal of you know saving the kids lives, helping students to be able to grow up. We provide k through twelve visitor management solution for schools, emergency management solutions, and volunteer management. Our software can leverage what a district is using to house their student information data. That's being fed raptor via a sink and knowing that we have all of that in the palm of our hands via the Raptor Alert app, that's everything. Raptors partnership with the I love you guys foundation allows districts to leverage the SRP, SRPX, or SRP twenty twenty one policies. We also allow districts to customize their EM policy to align with other protocols to. We work with our customers on identifying the potential bottlenecks in the process that they can make their reunification process as fast and efficient as possible. What a parent or guardian would experience is they would be received by a greeter. They say, I'm here to pick up a student. The greeter types the student's name into the app, and it kicks off the reunification workflow. The greeter says, hey, follow this path, and we're gonna get you to the Guardian staging area. And what happens next is a student runner assigns a student to themselves and the student runner would take student to the reunification zone where they will wait for the guardian and a Guardian runner from the staff. At that point, the Guardian runner will drop off off the Guardian and the student runner will drop off the student to a reunifier. And the arena fire is somebody that's leveraging our app, and they will facilitate the reunification between the student and the guardian. And after that's completed, we send them home. As we walked through the reunification drill today, it was really exciting to see how Raptor improved our processes rather than relying on a pen and paper process of possibly not the most up to date or current raw rosters or needing somebody to print paper rosters before we can do the drill. Having that information in our fingertips was was really beneficial. It helped make the process seem very organized, efficient, and I can see how it would facilitate a really streamlined and efficient process for reunification. When I think about our reunification process prior to Raptor, it's a lot of paper pencils or computers and a lot of bringing of buckets and bringing of sheets and spreadsheets where we're tracking who guardians are. And so the great technology that'll come with the raptory agency software will really help us to create a more efficient system. Another feature that's really helpful for us is Raptor scans the ID and sends it through multiple databases and alerts us if there's a reason why that person should not be on campus. It does it in a way that's discreet, but also very visible for the person doing scanning that they need to notify somebody that this is not an approved visitor. Raptor Technologies allowed us to be able to ensure the safety of our students on our campus and consult with our local police department if we're unsure of what a reading might mean, and we always on the side of caution. And so by allowing our technologies to do that quick scan for us, that helps us to ensure that we're releasing students to the people that need to be released to. Right now, in the present, we've built a great partnership between Raptor Technologies and and the Lothian ISD, and I only see that getting better, you know, great customer service from the store. You can tell there's genuine they wanted to help. Now with our emergency management software that we purchased and started using, we're just gonna be able to need to build more trust as our parents see what that software program is about and how it just enables us to continue to build on a safe secure environment.
