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Dr. Woodcock reports on district safety team, teen mental-health first aid grant opportunity and strong fire-inspection results
Summary
Dr. Woodcock briefed the board on a districtwide safety-team meeting, recommended consistent drill signage and language, noted a grant to pilot teen mental-health first-aid training next year, and said this year’s fire-inspection results were the district’s best, with minor code issues noted.
Dr. Woodcock told the board the district’s second districtwide safety-team meeting was well attended and focused on building-level updates, consistent signage, and shared drill language. She said the team discussed possible security presence at large events and plans to produce consistent classroom signage with emergency drill language and important phone numbers.
She highlighted a potential grant to begin teen mental-health first-aid next year — allowing the district to start training and materials for free before any state mandate — and said, "We start with each building and department with updates..." and that the grant would let the district "get our trainers trained for free, get some of the workbooks in for free, and start training on what is a really important topic of suicide awareness and suicide prevention." Dr. Woodcock also reported the district had its best year ever on fire inspections but noted common, minor code issues such as classroom air fresheners and decorative lights that need attention.
She said proposals on security presence for certain large events will come to the safety team and then to the board for discussion.
