ESC Region 12 Safe & Healthy School

1. The TxSSC released this letter (https://locker.txssc.txstate.edu/f2f4105a65871198eb51d4b424173f6e/school-safety-considerations.html) to schools in response to Governor Abbott's letter (https://drive.google.com/file/d/13BbboOm2_0xNqRYWrRCH5pduaeZiCzcc/view?usp=sharing) to them.

I wanted to flag a TAA letter from TEA's Special Education Division that came out Friday that may not have been on your radar. Given that students with disabilities are more susceptible to human trafficking and child abuse, this could fall into the intent and purpose of Title IV, Part A. Of course, it is not an automatic assumption and depends on supplanting funds.

2. Governor Abbott released a letter directing the ALERRT Center to deploy their active shooter training to schools and requesting the release of a debrief to schools on the Uvalde school shooting. Learn more here and stay tuned as we learn more - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g2HbOvCWgaLfngvhOAmQKwpt9D7n9hF0/view?usp=sharing

TEEX offers Active Shooter ALERRT training in 2 ways (online and face-to-face). The flyers for both are included in this link.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1g63JZq3EnfyxxqvFi0J_nQU3PjhtWzct?usp=sharing

3. Reminder that TEA's SSSP Data Collection needs to be submitted by the end of the month.

4. The Texas School Safety Center has opened the Texas School Safety and Security Registry. Currently, they are collecting registrations for people to conduct safety audits, EOP assistance, and other safety services. They will soon release that list to our schools.

5. District Safety Teams Resources

https://sites.google.com/esc14.net/districtsafetyteams/home

6. The governor has created the position of Chief of School Safety and Security within the TEA. Learn more here.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D5S4JyGzjif2d30_ManzGQPCUnI5t6TD/view?usp=sharing

7. The Title IV, Part A State Initiative share their June 2022 S'more Newsletter (https://www.smore.com/ujqxy)

8. SBEC has released the State Board for Educator Certification Continuing Education and Training Clearinghouse Chart (https://www.esc14.net/upload/page/0396/docs/SBEC%202022%20clearinghouse%20publication.pdf).

Go to the TEA SBEC Continuing Education and Training Clearinghouse website for more information (https://tea.texas.gov/about-tea/leadership/state-board-for-educator-certification/continuing-education-and-training-clearinghouse).

This clearinghouse is a requirement for SBEC from TEC 21.4514 (https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ED/htm/ED.21.htm#21.4514) and the districts from TEC 21.4515 (https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ED/htm/ED.21.htm#21.4515).

This clearinghouse concerns training frequency for suicide prevention, maintaining positive relationships, bullying, safety training for coaches and extracurricular activities, abuse/sex abuse/human trafficking, trauma-informed care, and administration of epinephrine.

Districts will have to annually adopt these recommendations or state how they deviate from them. The district would maintain this information at the district level. For the most part, the recommendation for frequency is to include it in the job descriptions of school staff or provide it annually.

June 16, 9am-4pm, session 246310

17th Annual Teen Suicide Prevention Symposium

June 22, 3pm-4pm, session 269229

School Board Human Trafficking

June 23, 8:30am-12:30pm (working lunch), session 287308

Youth Mental Health First Aid

June 23, 1pm-3pm, session 287062

EOP Workday

June 24, 9am-11am, session 287119

EOP Workday

June 29-30, session 264979

MTSS for Student Success K-12

July 15, 9-4, session 275993/275998

School Safety Summit: Creating a safe school culture

July 20, session 264978

MTSS 2.0: Enhancing your Multi-Tiered Systems of Support

August 3-4, 8am-5pm

Drug Impairment Training for Educational Professionals (DITEP)

https://texasfriday.org/event/ditep-waco-2-day-training/

Online, On-Demand Courses

• Human Trafficking for Superintendents, session #252332
  
• Human Trafficking for School Boards, session #252323
• SB 11: The Omnibus School Safety Bill Canvas Course, session # 252334
• Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) & Support for Students Exposed to Trauma (SSET), session #257779

*Watch our live calendar at https://tinyurl.com/23d8cp2r

Training available to schedule on-site:

• Behavior Threat Assessment (to train your Threat Assessment/Safe and Supportive Schools Team)
• Behavior Threat Assessment TableTops (for your Threat Assessment/Safe and Supportive Schools Team to take an in-depth look at how your team operates and work through a case)
• Digital Responsibility & Social Media Safety (to train your students)
• True Colors (offered for students and staff as a team-building/self-awareness opportunity)
• AS+K Suicide Prevention (to train staff)
• Youth Mental Health First Aid (to train staff)
• Trauma-Sensitive Schools (to train staff)

*Contact us for pricing and to schedule.

This year's Teen Suicide Prevention Symposium will include information about the new "988" Mental Health Crisis line, Mental Health 101: Adolescent Edition, updates on our Local Mental Health Authorities, and an interview with an LGBTQ teen about the importance of mental health and support as well as a panel of mental health providers who will discuss what they have been seeing in these past two years. The cost is $45, but ESC Region 12 Counselor Co-op members may attend at no charge. You won't want to miss this event!

Save the Date and Register for Ruby Payne on July 15th! This is a conference focusing on keeping schools safe through behavioral/mental health and inclusive support strategies. Ruby Payne will lead the keynote in the morning, while the afternoon focuses on supporting special populations, inclusive practices, trauma, and coping.

While the title is school safety, do not let that fool you. The conversations will apply to the whole school!

Lunch is provided by a vendor, and school safety vendors will be on-site to visit about supporting our schools.

https://txr12.escworks.net/catalog/multivenue.aspx?isSearch=0&event_id=275984

Having at least one trusted adult is the most crucial mediating protective factor in a young person's life. Unfortunately, not every student may be able to identify this person in their life. Here is a quick activity for school staff to do in order to help identify those crucial relationships. It may not be the counselor. It may be a custodian, bus driver, coach, band director, principal, ag teacher, any teacher, SRO, behavior specialist, or any person that interacts with students.

1. Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools (REMS) TA Center has released

• the June 2022 newsletter (https://apps1.seiservices.com/remsemailblast/emailfiles/2022-06/JuneNewsletter/June2022-browser.html)

2. NCMEC and NetSmartz shares:

Every June we celebrate Internet Safety Month.

It's a great time to review our online behavior and learn how we can stay safer while using the internet. There are lots of good reasons for kids to be online – education, entertainment, and to socialize with friends. But there are also risks they face, including online enticement (https://www.missingkids.org/netsmartz/topics/onlineenticement), sextortion (https://www.missingkids.org/netsmartz/topics/sexting), and cyberbullying (https://www.missingkids.org/netsmartz/topics/cyberbullying).

To support you and your family, we've created resources to help you stay safer online in these unprecedented times. Just hear what Clicky, NCMEC's internet safety robot, has to say about keeping your kids safer!

3. The Campus Safety Magazine delivers:

• 4 Steps to Developing an Effective Student/Parent Reunification Process (https://www.campussafetymagazine.com/news/school-student-parent-reunification/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=content&utm_source=email&utm_medium=mc&utm_campaign=259457)
• DHS Warms of Extremists Encouraging Uvalde Copycat Attacks (https://www.campussafetymagazine.com/safety/dhs-warning-extremists-uvalde-copycat-attacks/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=content&utm_source=email&utm_medium=mc&utm_campaign=259457)

4. The National School Safety Center presents:

• Fostering Family Engagement Webinar on June 22, 1-2:30PM ET (https://www.nc2s.org/training/fostering-family-engagement/)
• LGBTQI+ Youth - Like All Americans, They Deserve Evidence-Based Care (https://www.samhsa.gov/blog/lgbtqi-youth-all-americans-deserve-evidence-based-care)
• Resources for LGBTQI+ Students (https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/lgbt.html)
• LGBTQI+ School Experiences (https://youth.gov/youth-topics/lgbtq-youth/school-experiences)
• Promoting School Safety for LGBTQ and All Students (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8454913/)
• School Policing Programs: Where we have been and where we need to go next publication (https://www.nc2s.org/resource/school-policing-programs-where-we-have-been-and-where-we-need-to-go-next/)
• School Safety Success Stories: Atlanta Public Schools Case Study (https://www.nc2s.org/resource/school-safety-success-stories-atlanta-public-schools-case-study-video/)

5. Texas Health and Human Services present:

• The first Suicide Prevention Quarterly Newsletter (PDF) from the State Suicide Prevention Team is now available (https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/TXHHSC/2022/06/02/file_attachments/2175734/Suicide%20Prevention%20Newsletter%20-%20June%202022.pdf)
  

1. TEA has developed a new Safe and Supportive Schools Webpage. (https://tea.texas.gov/texas-schools/health-safety-discipline/safe-and-supportive-school-program)

2. The School Mental Health Database is live!! (https://schoolmentalhealthtxdatabase.org/)

1. Register and Learn more

https://texasgoodbehaviorgame.org/

2. Check out this quick video

https://youtu.be/LShhtowDNbg

3. Texas PAX Summit

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Araa02hkcorT0bYrqI7QmZB4lszag5Uc/view?usp=sharing

1. Sign up for the Virtual Advanced Digital Threat Assessment Training. This training is designed for individuals who are responsible for investigating online threats and have previously completed the Basic Digital Threat Assessment training through the Texas School Safety Center. (https://txssc.txstate.edu/events/adv-dta-trainings/)

2. Sign up for the Virtual Threat Assessment Training. (https://txssc.txstate.edu/events/sbta-trainings/)

3. Registration Is Open for Summer 2022 SBLE Trainings

• TCOLE #41501 (https://txssc.txstate.edu/events/sble-trainings/tcole-41501)
• TCOLE #41502 (https://txssc.txstate.edu/events/sble-trainings/tcole-41502)
• TCOLE #41504 (https://txssc.txstate.edu/events/sble-trainings/tcole-41504)
• TCOLE #41505 (https://txssc.txstate.edu/events/sble-trainings/tcole-41505)

1. Light the Way - End Human Trafficking

2022 Summit

June 14-16

Dallas, Tx

2. Registration is open for the 2022 Texas School Safety Conference!

Themed Keeping School Safety a Priority: A Collaborative Approach

Registration

Early: $350 – Ends May 27, 2022

Late: $400 – Begins May 28, 2022

Conference Dates:
June 19 - 23, 2022

Location:
San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter

https://txssc.txstate.edu/events/tss-conf/

3. THE 9TH ANNUAL TASRO SAFE SCHOOLS CONFERENCE

When: June 27, 2022 08:00, CDT
Where: Hilton Palacio del Rio, 200 South Alamo Street, San Antonio, TX 78205-3213

https://tasro.org/Conference

4. Campus Safety Conference 2022

July 18-20

Fort Worth, TX

5. Region 3 Safe and Supportive Schools Summit

July 25 & 26

Virtual

https://www.escweb.net/tx_r3/catalog/session.aspx?session_id=410897

1. Gun-Free Schools Report is Open under the Compliance Reports tab on eGrants and is due June 29.

Should wait to submit the report until the last day of school is completed.

This is required of all LEAs that request any federal funds in 22-23 for any program authorized by the Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Without completion of the Gun-Free Schools Report, TEA cannot issue NOGAs for the LEA's federal grants.

2. Safety Audits
Public Schools should conduct a safety audit of facilities from September 2020 through August 2023.

Charter Schools should conduct a safety audit from September 2019 through August 2022.

3. District Audit Reports

At the culmination of the Safety Audit process, schools are required to submit a District Audit Report to the Texas School Safety Center.

The Public School expected deadline is August 2023.

The Charter School expected deadline is August 2022.

4. Threat Assessment/SSSP

Collection period September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2022 is due in June 2022 by Qualtrics survey. TEA will send a Qualtrics survey to Superintendents to collect data.

This is a sample copy of the 21-22 SSSP Survey (https://tea.texas.gov/about-tea/news-and-multimedia/correspondence/taa-letters/safe-and-supportive-school-program-update).

Required training for ALL SSSP Team Members, virtually or in-person through TxSSC or your ESC.

Recommended Digital Threat Assessment training for SSSP Team members through TxSSC and is offered virtually.

5. Emergency Operation Plans and Annexes

Can be requested at any time by TxSSC.

HB 3597 now allows TxSSC to request that schools submit safety-related MOUs and Mutual Aid Agreements.

6. Drill rules become effective - May 17, 2022

7. Bullying Report (New 87th Legislature)

PEIMS Summer Submission due on June 16, 2022

TEC 48.009 (b-4)

Issue 2.5 of the MTSS Newsletter has some great information for classroom teachers, a video explaining the importance of creating a positive classroom environment, and upcoming professional development. The ESC Region 12 Special Education department is also hosting our annual special education conference titled A Celebration of Success. Please feel free to share this flyer with your campuses. You may access all previous issues for the 2021-2022 school year HERE. As always, feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

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Crystal Robinson, M.Ed.

Education Specialist

RTI, MTSS, 504

254-297-1217

www.esc12.net/sped

ESC Region 12 offers professional development, expert support and guidance in meeting Title IV, Part A state and federal requirements, including student access to a well-rounded education, school conditions for student learning improvements, and the use of technology to improve the academic achievement and digital literacy of all students.

Suzanna Avalos, School Nurse Grant Coordinator

David Baker, ESC 12 Clinical Mental Health Liaison

Jeni Janek, Education Specialist III/Coordinator

Heather Wheeler, Education Specialist

Email: hwheeler@esc12.net
Website: esc12.net
Location: ESC Region 12, West Loop 340, Waco, TX, USA
Phone: 254-297-1166
Twitter: @R12SafeHealthy