This is Kirk Carpenter’s 29th year in education, all of which have been spent with the Aztec Municipal School District. He is married to his best friend Teresa of 29 years, and though they have no children, they enjoy the company of their four dogs. Kirk was born and raised in Farmington, New Mexico and still lives there. He attended college at New Mexico Highlands University for my bachelor’s Degree in Special Education, with a Minor in History and received his Master’s degree in School Administration from New Mexico State University. While in the district, Kirk spent eight years as a teacher of special education and history. Coaching was also an important part of his career at Aztec High School. He spent six years coaching football and fourteen years in the baseball program, twelve of those were as a head coach. The last twenty one years have been spent in administration, including six years as an Assistant Principal, two in-a-half years as a Principal, and another two-in-a half as a Deputy Superintendent, and he is in his ninth year as the Superintendent. Mr. Carpenter served as the President of the New Mexico Superintendent’s Association, currently serves on the Board of the New Mexico Activity Association, New Mexico Coalition of Education Leaders, and is the President for the Board of the Cooperative Educational Services. In 2014, Mr. Carpenter received one of his highest honors in his educational career when his fellow Superintendents voted him as the New Mexico Superintendent of the Year. Kirk loves what he does and consider himself blessed to be able to serve children, because there is nothing more important than preparing them for their future.

On December 7, 2017 evil came onto our campus and took two innocent lives and then his own. The incident lasted five minutes, but changed our community forever. The staff saved many lives that day because they reacted to years of purposeful practice, training, and the networking done with local emergency officials and law enforcement. Hear our story and what we learned through our experience.

• Participants will gain an understanding of the importance of conducting purposeful drills and ensuring they’re done on a routine basis.
• Participants will gain an understanding of the importance of developing networks so best practices can be implemented to improve school safety.
• Participants will learn that school safety plans should include comprehensive exercises with law enforcement and other emergency services.
• Participants will understand how years of working with local Emergency Management and law enforcement saved lives on the day of our incident.
• Participants will learn that a culture of safety is not a destination, it is an on going journey that we must continually develop and refine.

• Participants will be able to identify, conduct and practice emergency drills more purposefully and effectively.
• Participants will be able to identify and list what agencies they need to collaborate with to make their safety plans more complete.
• Participants will be able to identify lead agencies in their communities that they need to partner with to make full scale drills more effective.
• Participants will take lessons learned from the events in Aztec and apply them to help improve their safety plans.
• Participants will be able to plan regular updates and meetings to continually update and adjust safety manuals on a regular basis.

Bobby Kipper is recognized as a national expert and best-selling author in the areas of school and community safety. He currently serves as the executive director of the National Center for Prevention of Community Violence. In addition, he is a school safety and discipline specialist with the Virginia Department of Education. Mr. Kipper served 26 years in police service in Newport News Virginia and was active as a school resource officer and school police supervisor.
Bobby Kipper began his career with the Newport News Police Department in 1977. During his 26-year career, he served in the areas of patrol, investigations, media relations, and as executive assistant to the Chief of Police. Following his decorated 26 years’ service with the department, he served as the director of Virginia’s Gang Reduction Program at the Office of the Attorney General.
His expertise in the area of community and school violence prevention has been recognized by the White House, Congress, and a number of states across America. His best-selling book, “No Colors: 100 Ways to Keep Gangs from Taking Away Our Communities,” has been instrumental in developing gang reduction programs in communities across America.
His continued efforts in communities and policing have combined in his newest book released in January 2017. He teamed up with Virginia Tech professor Dr. Scott Geller which implemented Actively Caring for People (AC4P) after the Virginia Tech tragedy to promote healing and create a positive cultural change using behavioral science. Mr. Kipper worked with Dr. Geller to adapt the AC4P concept to law enforcement. This concept became a book; “Actively Caring for People Policing: Building Positive Police/Citizen Relationships.” This book is meant to work with current community policing programs using proven behavioral science methods to cultivate a more positive role in and with their communities.
In addition, he has developed and presented a number of courses with the University of North Florida, Institute of Police Technology and Management; University of Memphis, Mid-South Training Institute; and the International Association of Chiefs of Police in the key areas of prevention and organizational leadership. His current best-selling book, “Performance Driven Thinking,” is serving as a new direction for public safety leadership in America.
Bobby has been awarded with the F.B.I. Director’s Award for the fight against crime in America. In addition, during his police career he was recognized on three separate occasions with the Outstanding Contribution to Law Enforcement Award.

• New opportunities for cyber existence
  • Online learning creates more students in cyberspace
  • Online learning also opens the market for new users “rookies online”
  • Virtual learning can create the ease for cyber navigation
  • Students can now experience an increase in down time “too much time on their hands”
• The impact of social isolation on cyberbullying
  Social isolation can lead to:
  • Feelings of anxiety / bullies and victims
  • Feelings of a loss of control / bullies and victims
  • Feeling a need for power / bullies
  • Fear of missing out / bullies and victims
• Covid-19 and increased targeting
  • Placing blame on situation
  • Targeting based on national dialog
  • Targeting based on media divide
  • Targeting Asian and foreign populations
  • Targeting based on financial divide
• Seven strategies to address Covid-19 cyber bullying
  • Close monitoring of cyber use “don’t be a cy-stander”
  • More student cyber education
  • Adult supervised social cyber gathering
  • Provide more facts on current situation
  • Report any known abuse of cyberspace
  • Adult modeling of kindness and civility
  • Plan activities away from the screen

John Calvert graduated Washburn University (Topeka, KS) in 2006 with a degree in Criminal Justice. John was the School Resource Officer for Holton, Jackson Heights, and Royal Valley school districts. After a 12 year career in Law Enforcement, John accepted a position with Kansas State Department of Education as the School Safety Specialist. John has written for Safe and Civil Schools, has presented all over the state of Kansas over a variety of school safety issues, and is a 2016 National Association of School Resource Officer’s recipient of the NASRO Practitioner Award. John is a strong believer that nothing can change without building positive relationships and believes that change in our schools should be student lead.

In this session, participants will learn how empowering staff members and students to make decisions in stressful situations can improve the climate of the school. Participants will also review the importance of conducting a variety of drills and a new way to approach crisis drills.

• Empower educators to make decisions during a crisis
• Conduct drills in schools differently than the "way we've always done it"
• Expand the types of drills conducted

• Empower educators to make decisions during a crisis
• Conduct drills in schools differently than the "Way we've always done it"
• Expand the types of drills conducted

Dr. Lopez is currently the executive director of crisis and safety for Waukegan Public Schools. Prior to his current assignment, he worked as a school administrator for over five years. Robert has also enjoyed twenty-year career in law enforcement with assignments in patrol gang unit, investigations, SRO, D.A.R.E., and supervisory assignments including director of public safety.
Robert has published magazine articles in the area of school safety and has presented at both national and regional school safety conferences on the collaborative efforts of school and law enforcement personnel working together to create and implement school emergency management plans.

The learning forum is based on my qualitative multiple case study doctoral research in the area of school emergency management readiness and the relationship between school administrators and law enforcement personnel, namely School Resource Officers (SROs). The participants in my study consisted of 3 school district level supervisors, 3 principals, 3 SRO supervisors, and 3 SROs.

• The participant will analyze the current collaborative efforts between school and law enforcement personnel
• The participant will discuss and design areas of improving effective communication strategies and building trust within the interogation
• The participant will understand unconscious bias may affect the trust and relationship building process and to work through this dile

• The participants will leave with a better understanding of each other's missions, goals, and objectives in the school emergency management
• The participants will learn some tools to use in effective communication building within these interorganizational relationship
• The participants will gain a better understanding of conscious and unconsciuos bias and how to overcome these obstacles

Warman Hall is the principal of Aztec High School in Aztec NM, serving an average of 900 ninth through twelfth grade students each year. Warman has 21 years in education, the last 11 at AHS. Warman is the 2018 New Mexico Principal of the Year

On December 7, 2017 evil came onto our campus and took two innocent lives and then his own. The incident lasted five minutes, but changed our community forever. The staff saved many lives that day because they reacted to years of purposeful practice, training, and the networking done with local emergency officials and law enforcement. Hear our story and what we learned through our experience.

• Participants will gain an understanding of the importance of conducting purposeful drills and ensuring they’re done on a routine basis.
• Participants will gain an understanding of the importance of developing networks so best practices can be shared on ways to improve school safety.
• Participants will learn that school safety plans should include comprehensive exercises with law enforcement and other emergency services.
• Participants will understand how years of working with local Emergency Management and law enforcement saved lives on the day of our incident.
• Participants will hear lessons learned from our incident in Aztec, NM.

• Participants will be able to identify the frequency of drills conducted on their campus and ensure that they are being practiced on a routine basis.
• Participants will identify a list of agencies and individuals that they can contact to help improve networking to help improve their safety plans.
• Participants will create a working network to plan and share best practices with emergency agencies and schools/districts in their area.
• Participants will develop a long range plan of how they systemically work to improve their overall safety plan.
• Participants will ask questions on lessons learned from an actual event that took place in Aztec, New Mexico on December 7, 2017.

Police Chief Paul Cordova joined the HISD Police Department as assistant chief in August 2017. A product of HISD and son of a retired HISD principal, Cordova will be tasked with providing general oversight of daily operations, as well asreviewing current policies and procedures, building relationships with surrounding law enforcement agencies, and focusing on the changing needs of school policing.

Cordova began his career in 1982, when he joined the Harris County Sheriff’s Office. There, he spent 32 years serving in almost every department — detentions, courts, inmate processing, transportation, records, patrol, warrants, criminal investigations, homeland security and emergency management — before retiring as senior captain.

He then joined the Rice University Police Department, where he spent three years as captain. During his tenure, he managed patrol operations, emergency dispatch operations, criminal investigations, special events, dignitary protection, accreditation, and training and background investigations. He also participated in a variety of community outreach programs designed to increase trust and understanding between police officers and the communities they serve. He also served on several university committees designed to enhance public safety for students, faculty, and staff members.

Cordova has a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice and a master’s degree in Criminal Justice Leadership and Management from Sam Houston State University. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy and the Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas Leadership Command College. He also is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the FBI National Academy Association, the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, the Houston Area Chiefs of Police Organization, and serves on Mayor Sylvester Turner’s Commission Against Gun Violence under the School Safety, Community Safety, and Weapons Safety and Access subcommittees.

Grant Banash earned his BA in Career and Technical Education from the University of Manitoba, Canada before starting his 22 year career working for the Aztec Municipal School District. He later earned his MA in Career and Technical Education from Bemidji State University in Bemidji, Minnesota. He has spent most of his career teaching various Career and Technical classes at Aztec High School. He has been a High School Administrator, a Transportation Director and, most recently, the Director of Operations for the school district. He was a volunteer firefighter and medical first responder for the surrounding community for 16 years, during this time he gained valuable knowledge and experience while working in stressful situations involving the safety and wellbeing of others. Throughout his career as an educator and administrator he has focused on creating and implementing numerous safety oriented trainings procedures that are used district wide. He, his wife and their two daughters all work for or attend schools within the Aztec Municipal School District.

This presentation outlines the active shooting that took place at Aztec High School on December 7th, 2017. This session will focus on key safety processes and crucial relationships while also introducing new ideas and procedures that have been implemented or are currently being developed to assist in district, school and county level school safety initiatives.

• Participants will recognize the importance of building collaborative relationships with local emergency response agencies related to school safety.
• Participants will understand the critical life-saving processes that the Aztec School district had in place prior to the tragedy.
• Participants will gain an understanding on how the event unfolded on December 7th. 2017.
• Participants will gain knowledge to assess their current school building construction.
• Participants will become aware of current equipment trends enabling priority based purchases for school safety.

• Participants will be able to identify key community stakeholders to develop relationships with, to create a collaborative safe school team.
• Participants will be able to identify drills, communication systems and safety protocols necessary to ensure their school's safety.
• Participants will be able to identify specific areas of need with respect to safety within their current school buildings.

Officer Aaron Johns grew up in a small town in Oregon. After high school, he attended two years of college then enlisted in the US Army. After serving his country from 1994-1998, he returned home and was immediately hired as a Eugene Police Officer. In 1999, he married his wife, Kimber, and they had four beautiful children.
Officer Johns started his career as a Patrol Officer and worked in this capacity for 13 years. As a Eugene Police Officer, he mentored other officers as a Field Training Officer. He also worked as a member of the Crowd Control Team and the EPD Bicycle Team. Although Officer Johns enjoyed these specialized assignments, he always had a passion for kids and when the School Resource Officer position became available, he knew this was the right fit for his personality. Officer Johns has worked in this position for the last eight years. He is also a firearms instructor and an active member of the Eugene Police Department’s SWAT Team.
During his time as a School Resource Officer, Officer Johns was in two officer-involved shootings. He was recognized for his actions of bravery and heroism by the Eugene Police Department, the National Association of School Resource Officers, and The Oregon Peace Officers Association. He was awarded the Medal of Valor and the Medal of Honor.
Officer Johns understands the importance of mentoring and protecting youth. He plans on finishing out his fulfilling career as a School Resource Officer.

Sergeant Nelson grew up in a small town in Oregon, within 10 miles of Officer Johns. He graduated from the University of Oregon with a Business degree. While in college, he met his lovely wife, Cherie and married her in 1997. He has two amazing boys, one of which was born during the first week of his academy. Sergeant Nelson started with the Eugene Police Department in January 2002, and has been there ever since.
Sergeant Nelson started out as a patrol officer and was promoted to Sergeant in 2008. During his career as an officer he was an EVO instructor (Emergency Vehicle Operation Instructor) and FTO (Field Training Officer). As a Sergeant he was/is an FTO supervisor, crisis intervention supervisor, EVO supervisor, and an internal affairs investigator.
Sergeant Nelson completed his four years in internal affairs and came back to patrol as a team supervisor. All throughout his life he has had a passion to help and mentor youth, when the SRO supervisor position opened after his second year back on patrol he applied for the position and was selected.
Sergeant Nelson has been the SRO supervisor for the last two years and feels like it has been the most fulfilling job he has had in his entire career. He plans on ending his law enforcement career in this position with the hope he can impact youth in his community.

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Robin LeClaire, Chief Academic Officer at the Indiana Department of Education has been working in public education for over a quarter of a century. As a classroom teacher for 14 years, she taught grades 1, 2, 4, and 5 in a diverse urban setting. She moved into administration and served as a Dean of Students for two years and principal for eight years. She has been with Department for two years. During her tenure in schools, she helped turn a failing school around and helped to close the achievement gap among underperforming student groups. In her current role she oversees Curriculum and Instruction, Social Emotional Behavioral Wellness, School Improvement, Leadership and Innovation, Special Education, School Safety, and Title Grants. Robin has presented nationally on improving school culture in order to raise student achievement and presents across the state on topics such as MTSS, Pushing for Proficiency and Bullying. Her goal as CAO for the Department is to provide educators with the high quality resources, guidance, professional development, and supports they need to be successful to serve the 1.2 million students in Indiana.

Bill has over 44 years of experience in education including work as a teacher, coach, school psychologist, crisis coordinator and district administrator. He has extensive knowledge with all levels of education from preschool through grade 12. Bill is presently an employee of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District as the executive Director of the Human ware/Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Department. He continues to have a particular emphasis in the ongoing development and supervision of the school district’s Rapid Response (crisis response) Team and is the former manager of the Office of Psychological Services. His background also includes private practice with youth and their families and chairman of the Ohio School Psychologists Association, State-wide Crisis Intervention Response Team.

Dan is superintendent of schools in Eureka County, Nevada. Eureka has the highest 10-year graduation rate in the nation, the highest test scores in Nevada, the highest aggregate school climate scores in the state, and the highest college/military placement in the Nevada. Dan also serves on the Nevada Emergency Management Team, the Governor’s Educator Ethics Commission and the State Grants Commission. He has spoken in several states and at national conferences on how School Climate impacts Student Safety. In 2008 Dan was named Nevada’s Most Visionary Educator, in 2016 he was named Nevada’s FFA Star Administrator for his involvement in and support of student activities, and in 2019 he is receiving the national Gatekeeper Award for his advancement of student and staff safety. Dan grew up near a small town on a Reservation in Washington State, where his parents and grandparents had orchards and vineyards. He got his first college degree in engineering, and then in teaching Art and PE. Dan attended college on a track scholarship, and made the basketball team as a walk-on. “Coach Wold” taught art and PE, and coached basketball and track, for 24 years before moving into administration. He served as an assistant principal and athletic director for six years, a principal for five, a district director for two, and is in his third year as superintendent of schools. Dan does artwork on commission, and enjoys hiking and fishing. He also plays in a band that has been voted “Tahoe’s Favorite” for the last three years.

Research has established that there are direct links between school climate, student and staff safety and student achievement. We will explore those links, and simple action steps we can all take that improve all three. Through this process, we will also look at why many traditional programs fail. Lastly, we will look at what student behaviors can signal alarm.

• Participants will explore the links between climate, safety and achievement.
• Participants will explore the causal relationships between climate, safety and achievement
• Participants will explore simple, proven action steps that improve climate, safety and achievement.

• Participants will be able to explain the links between climate, safety and achievement.
• Participants will be able to explain the causal relationships between climate, safety and achievement.
• Participants will leave with simple, proven action steps that improve climate, safety and achievement.

Arvinder “Vinny” Ginda is affiliated with Emotional Intelligence LLC and has been conducting research on emotional intelligence for the past ten years. Along the way he has developed and presented several training courses domestically and internationally. Courses such as Effective Communications, Critical Decision Making When it Counts, How to Increase your Emotional Intelligence during a Crisis. Conflicting Conversations, etc. Also, Supervisory Special Agent Arvinder “Vinny” Ginda is currently assigned to the Sacramento FBI Office located in Sacramento, CA and is a member of the FBI Hostage Negotiation Team. He speaks four languages (Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu and English) and graduated from Sacramento State University with Bachelors in Psychology, Associates Degree in Social and Behavioral Science, and Associates Degree in Criminal Justice. Vinny has experience in Domestic and International Kidnappings and also in handling hostage situations within the United States. He has taught hostage negotiations courses in the United States and several foreign countries and has traveled all over the Middle East, South East Asia, and most of North Africa conducting work related to his current profession

During the presentation, participants will learn about research conducted in an effort to explain current adolescent behavior which often leads to anxiety, social anxiety, depression, suicide, video game addiction, attention deficit disorder and active shooter situations in schools. Participants will also learn about the possible solution that can assist students, teachers, and parents.

• Understand the impact of technology on the developing brain; how it hinders learning basic coping skills that are needed to resolve everyday problems.
• Teachers will learn what skills can be applied and taught to students to assist them learning to self manage their emotions.
• Participants will learn a decision making model that can assist everyone with better decision making during difficult situations.
• Participants will learn better emotional regulation and self control in any situation.
• Participants will learn techniques how to minimize addictions.

• Participants will have a better understanding of the developing brain which will assist them how to alter their engagements for better results.
• Participants will be able to better understand, explain and apply the importance of emotional regulation.
• Participants be able to better understand and mitigate an individual who is in a state of crisis.
• Participants will be able to learn a simple decision making model which will allow them to make responsible decisions in any situations
• Participants will learn the value of effective conversations and how to influence those they are communicating with.

Police Chief Paul Cordova joined the HISD Police Department as assistant chief in August 2017. A product of HISD and son of a retired HISD principal, Cordova will be tasked with providing general oversight of daily operations, as well asreviewing current policies and procedures, building relationships with surrounding law enforcement agencies, and focusing on the changing needs of school policing.

Cordova began his career in 1982, when he joined the Harris County Sheriff’s Office. There, he spent 32 years serving in almost every department — detentions, courts, inmate processing, transportation, records, patrol, warrants, criminal investigations, homeland security and emergency management — before retiring as senior captain.

He then joined the Rice University Police Department, where he spent three years as captain. During his tenure, he managed patrol operations, emergency dispatch operations, criminal investigations, special events, dignitary protection, accreditation, and training and background investigations. He also participated in a variety of community outreach programs designed to increase trust and understanding between police officers and the communities they serve. He also served on several university committees designed to enhance public safety for students, faculty, and staff members.

Cordova has a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice and a master’s degree in Criminal Justice Leadership and Management from Sam Houston State University. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy and the Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas Leadership Command College. He also is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the FBI National Academy Association, the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, the Houston Area Chiefs of Police Organization, and serves on Mayor Sylvester Turner’s Commission Against Gun Violence under the School Safety, Community Safety, and Weapons Safety and Access subcommittees.

I am a law enforcement and security professional with over 36 years of experience. I currently work at Saddleback College as a police operations lieutenant where I have served for the last 5 years. I served 29 years with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department (CA) where I retired as a lieutenant. During my service with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department I worked 11 years in SWAT, 3 years as a Chief of Police Services for the City of San Juan Capistrano and managed the Special Enforcement Bureau which included SWAT, Bomb Squad, Helicopters and Crisis Negotiations. I worked 2 years with the Los Angeles Dodgers where I worked as their Director of Security. I have also served as a Law Enforcement/Security consultant. I have worked with electronic access control for the past 5 years and participated in the development of project that will, when complete, include over approx. 1500 doors and 1400 users in a higher education/community college environment.

Clayton Cranford is a Sergeant in a Southern California law enforcement agency and owner of Total Safety Solutions LLC. Clayton is one of the nation’s leading law enforcement educators on social media, child safety, and behavioral threat assessments. Clayton is the author of the definitive book on cyber safety for families, “Parenting in the Digital World.” He has also authored several articles for the Journal of School Safety and wrote the National School Resources Officer’s manual on Internet safety and cyber crimes.

He created Cyber Safety Cop, a comprehensive Internet, and social media safety program. It teaches parents and students how to avoid online threats, such as cyberbullying, online predators, pornography, and social media addiction.

He has served as a member of the Orange County School Threat Assessment Team, School Resource Officer, and Crisis Negotiation Team. He has investigated threats, weapon possession, and violent crimes in K-12 schools throughout Orange County, California.

Social Media & Youth: Threats and Solutions first explains the current technology and applications our youth are using to access the Internet and social media networks. Secondly, cyberbullying and other online threats are defined with current trends and real-world examples that Clay Cranford has investigated in schools. Lastly, participants will be given tools and an action plan that they can immediately begin using to help keep their children and students safe online at home and at school.

Dr. Sean Lawler earned his Doctor of Management Degree within the field of Homeland Security Studies from Colorado Technical University. Dr. Lawler is also a 1992 graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, where he studied engineering, political science, and national security studies, and he is a graduate of Strayer University where he earned a Master of Science Degree in Business Administration. Dr. Lawler’s doctoral research and dissertation study focused upon strategies for the disruption of an active shooter event or terrorist attack upon an American school or church.
Dr. Lawler is currently a Supervisory Special Agent with the US Department of Justice/Drug Enforcement Administration. As the chief of the DEA’s Aviation Division Training Department, Special Agent Lawler oversees and directs all of his division’s training events worldwide. Special Agent Lawler also serves as a DEA Tactical Instructor, Firearms Instructor, Active Shooter Instructor, and Standardization Instructor Pilot. Additionally, Special Agent Lawler is a Nationally-Registered Emergency Medical Technician (NREMT) and participates in DEA’s robust tactical medic program.
Prior to joining DEA, Dr. Lawler was a Major in the US Air Force where he served as a Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Case Officer, a KC-10 Aircraft Commander, a Standardization Instructor Pilot in the T-34C, and a Combat Interrogator. Dr. Lawler is currently an Air Force Academy Liaison Officer (ALO) for the Dallas/Fort Worth area where he conducts interviews of prospective candidates during the Academy’s application process.
Dr. Lawler is a school board member of Bethesda Christian School in Fort Worth. Following the attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Bethesda Christian School formed a school security advisory committee—an action whichDr. Lawler had recommended taking two years before the attack occurred. Dr. Lawler was a founding member of this security committee and his recommendations have been a large part of Bethesda’s enhanced security posture. Dr. Lawler regularly conducts academic instruction for these teachers, federal employees, and civilian contract employees, as well as realistic scenario-based training exercises designed to deter, disrupt, and defeat any violent attack upon a school, church, or federal facility.

Research indicated that a large percentage of the general population does not and will not respond effectively during a life-threatening event. However, an understanding of the neurological basis of the brain’s “fight or flight” response provides clues on how to avoid the resultant “freezing” behavior. Instead, a “challenge response” must be developed through the use of scenario-based training.

• Learn the neurological basis of the physiological fear response
• Understand how perceptual distortions affect cognitive processes during life-threatening events
• Understand the necessity of realistic, scenario-based training
• Learn basic emergency medical techniques to stop massive bleeding and treat for hypoperfusion (shock)
• Eliminate attitudes of denial and instead create an optimum school safety climate and culture

• Explain the neurological basis of the body’s fear response
• Describe the perceptual distortions which are often experienced during periods of extreme stress
• Identify the components of effective staff security training
• Describe tactical medical procedures to stop massive bleeding and treat for hypoperfusion (shock)
• Describe what you can do to foster “buy-in” and eliminate attitudes of denial with regard to safety and security training

Officer Aaron Johns grew up in a small town in Oregon. After high school, he attended two years of college then enlisted in the US Army. After serving his country from 1994-1998, he returned home and was immediately hired as a Eugene Police Officer. In 1999, he married his wife, Kimber, and they had four beautiful children.
Officer Johns started his career as a Patrol Officer and worked in this capacity for 13 years. As a Eugene Police Officer, he mentored other officers as a Field Training Officer. He also worked as a member of the Crowd Control Team and the EPD Bicycle Team. Although Officer Johns enjoyed these specialized assignments, he always had a passion for kids and when the School Resource Officer position became available, he knew this was the right fit for his personality. Officer Johns has worked in this position for the last eight years. He is also a firearms instructor and an active member of the Eugene Police Department’s SWAT Team.
During his time as a School Resource Officer, Officer Johns was in two officer-involved shootings. He was recognized for his actions of bravery and heroism by the Eugene Police Department, the National Association of School Resource Officers, and The Oregon Peace Officers Association. He was awarded the Medal of Valor and the Medal of Honor.
Officer Johns understands the importance of mentoring and protecting youth. He plans on finishing out his fulfilling career as a School Resource Officer.

Sergeant Nelson grew up in a small town in Oregon, within 10 miles of Officer Johns. He graduated from the University of Oregon with a Business degree. While in college, he met his lovely wife, Cherie and married her in 1997. He has two amazing boys, one of which was born during the first week of his academy. Sergeant Nelson started with the Eugene Police Department in January 2002, and has been there ever since.
Sergeant Nelson started out as a patrol officer and was promoted to Sergeant in 2008. During his career as an officer he was an EVO instructor (Emergency Vehicle Operation Instructor) and FTO (Field Training Officer). As a Sergeant he was/is an FTO supervisor, crisis intervention supervisor, EVO supervisor, and an internal affairs investigator.
Sergeant Nelson completed his four years in internal affairs and came back to patrol as a team supervisor. All throughout his life he has had a passion to help and mentor youth, when the SRO supervisor position opened after his second year back on patrol he applied for the position and was selected.
Sergeant Nelson has been the SRO supervisor for the last two years and feels like it has been the most fulfilling job he has had in his entire career. He plans on ending his law enforcement career in this position with the hope he can impact youth in his community.

Chris entered the pupil transportation industry in 1996 as a special needs school bus driver for Eugene School District 4J in Eugene, Oregon. Chris spent 4 years driving both special education and regular education routes. In 2006, Chris was hired as the Director of Transportation for Greater Albany Public Schools in Albany, Oregon. In January of 2013, he returned to the Eugene School District as their Director of Transportation and Fleet Services. Chris is currently in his second term as state president of the Oregon Pupil Transportation Association. He has presented numerous driver and administrative trainings on the local, state and national levels. Chris’s passion lies with helping others in the pupil transportation industry. From driver training to administrative mentoring, Chris loves to help others learn and grow while also continuing to broaden his knowledge base within pupil transportation.

This presentation will help prepare for responding to the unthinkable: a fatal wreck that involves a school bus or other district vehicles. Two fatal wrecks will be discussed, one involving a school bus driver and the other involving another driver who was fatally injured. We will discuss preparation, action, response, and decompression techniques as well as key findings to how these occurred.

• Preparation: How will you prepare for a potential fatal wreck? This includes mental and physical focus of one's self and staff, prep for an emergency.
• Action: Knowing what to do, when to do, and how to do when you are thrown into the emergency.
• Response: How to properly respond and help emergency authorities, OSHA, Department of Education, district/location authorities.
• Decompression: Techniques to take care of yourself, your family, and your staff.

• Will be prepared to focus on the emergency at hand, delegate necessary and unnecessary items to proper staff/officials.
• Will know proper and accepted action of what to do, when to do, and how to do with various emergency protocols and procedures.
• Will know how to properly respond to inquiries/investigations from state police, OSHA, Department of Education, etc.
• Will learn how to take time to take care of yourself, your family, and your staff after a tragic and unexpected event.

Grant Banash earned his BA in Career and Technical Education from the University of Manitoba, Canada before starting his 22 year career working for the Aztec Municipal School District. He later earned his MA in Career and Technical Education from Bemidji State University in Bemidji, Minnesota. He has spent most of his career teaching various Career and Technical classes at Aztec High School. He has been a High School Administrator, a Transportation Director and, most recently, the Director of Operations for the school district. He was a volunteer firefighter and medical first responder for the surrounding community for 16 years, during this time he gained valuable knowledge and experience while working in stressful situations involving the safety and wellbeing of others. Throughout his career as an educator and administrator he has focused on creating and implementing numerous safety oriented trainings procedures that are used district wide. He, his wife and their two daughters all work for or attend schools within the Aztec Municipal School District.

This presentation outlines the active shooting that took place at Aztec High School on December 7th, 2017. This session will focus on key safety processes and crucial relationships while also introducing new ideas and procedures that have been implemented or are currently being developed to assist in district, school and county level school safety initiatives.

• Participants will recognize the importance of building collaborative relationships with local emergency response agencies related to school safety.
• Participants will understand the critical life-saving processes that the Aztec School district had in place prior to the tragedy.
• Participants will gain an understanding on how the event unfolded on December 7th. 2017.
• Participants will gain knowledge to assess their current school building construction.
• Participants will become aware of current equipment trends enabling priority based purchases for school safety.

• Participants will be able to identify key community stakeholders to develop relationships with, to create a collaborative safe school team.
• Participants will be able to identify drills, communication systems and safety protocols necessary to ensure their school's safety.
• Participants will be able to identify specific areas of need with respect to safety within their current school buildings.

Dr. Lopez is currently the executive director of crisis and safety for Waukegan Public Schools. Prior to his current assignment, he worked as a school administrator for over five years. Robert has also enjoyed twenty-year career in law enforcement with assignments in patrol gang unit, investigations, SRO, D.A.R.E., and supervisory assignments including director of public safety.
Robert has published magazine articles in the area of school safety and has presented at both national and regional school safety conferences on the collaborative efforts of school and law enforcement personnel working together to create and implement school emergency management plans.

The learning forum is based on my qualitative multiple case study doctoral research in the area of school emergency management readiness and the relationship between school administrators and law enforcement personnel, namely School Resource Officers (SROs). The participants in my study consisted of 3 school district level supervisors, 3 principals, 3 SRO supervisors, and 3 SROs.

• The participant will analyze the current collaborative efforts between school and law enforcement personnel
• The participant will discuss and design areas of improving effective communication strategies and building trust within the interogation
• The participant will understand unconscious bias may affect the trust and relationship building process and to work through this dile

• The participants will leave with a better understanding of each other's missions, goals, and objectives in the school emergency management
• The participants will learn some tools to use in effective communication building within these interorganizational relationship
• The participants will gain a better understanding of conscious and unconsciuos bias and how to overcome these obstacles

Warman Hall is the principal of Aztec High School in Aztec NM, serving an average of 900 ninth through twelfth grade students each year. Warman has 21 years in education, the last 11 at AHS. Warman is the 2018 New Mexico Principal of the Year

On December 7, 2017 evil came onto our campus and took two innocent lives and then his own. The incident lasted five minutes, but changed our community forever. The staff saved many lives that day because they reacted to years of purposeful practice, training, and the networking done with local emergency officials and law enforcement. Hear our story and what we learned through our experience.

• Participants will gain an understanding of the importance of conducting purposeful drills and ensuring they’re done on a routine basis.
• Participants will gain an understanding of the importance of developing networks so best practices can be shared on ways to improve school safety.
• Participants will learn that school safety plans should include comprehensive exercises with law enforcement and other emergency services.
• Participants will understand how years of working with local Emergency Management and law enforcement saved lives on the day of our incident.
• Participants will hear lessons learned from our incident in Aztec, NM.

• Participants will be able to identify the frequency of drills conducted on their campus and ensure that they are being practiced on a routine basis.
• Participants will identify a list of agencies and individuals that they can contact to help improve networking to help improve their safety plans.
• Participants will create a working network to plan and share best practices with emergency agencies and schools/districts in their area.
• Participants will develop a long range plan of how they systemically work to improve their overall safety plan.
• Participants will ask questions on lessons learned from an actual event that took place in Aztec, New Mexico on December 7, 2017.

John Calvert graduated Washburn University (Topeka, KS) in 2006 with a degree in Criminal Justice. John was the School Resource Officer for Holton, Jackson Heights, and Royal Valley school districts. After a 12 year career in Law Enforcement, John accepted a position with Kansas State Department of Education as the School Safety Specialist. John has written for Safe and Civil Schools, has presented all over the state of Kansas over a variety of school safety issues, and is a 2016 National Association of School Resource Officer’s recipient of the NASRO Practitioner Award. John is a strong believer that nothing can change without building positive relationships and believes that change in our schools should be student lead.

In this session, participants will learn how empowering staff members and students to make decisions in stressful situations can improve the climate of the school. Participants will also review the importance of conducting a variety of drills and a new way to approach crisis drills.

• Empower educators to make decisions during a crisis
• Conduct drills in schools differently than the "way we've always done it"
• Expand the types of drills conducted

• Empower educators to make decisions during a crisis
• Conduct drills in schools differently than the "Way we've always done it"
• Expand the types of drills conducted

In this session, participants will learn how empowering staff members and students to make decisions in stressful situations can improve the climate of the school. Participants will also review the importance of conducting a variety of drills and a new way to approach crisis drills.

• Empower educators to make decisions during a crisis
• Conduct drills in schools differently than the "way we've always done it"
• Expand the types of drills conducted

• Empower educators to make decisions during a crisis
• Conduct drills in schools differently than the "Way we've always done it"
• Expand the types of drills conducted

Clayton Cranford is a Sergeant in a Southern California law enforcement agency and owner of Total Safety Solutions LLC. Clayton is one of the nation’s leading law enforcement educators on social media, child safety, and behavioral threat assessments. Clayton is the author of the definitive book on cyber safety for families, “Parenting in the Digital World.” He has also authored several articles for the Journal of School Safety and wrote the National School Resources Officer’s manual on Internet safety and cyber crimes.

He created Cyber Safety Cop, a comprehensive Internet, and social media safety program. It teaches parents and students how to avoid online threats, such as cyberbullying, online predators, pornography, and social media addiction.

He has served as a member of the Orange County School Threat Assessment Team, School Resource Officer, and Crisis Negotiation Team. He has investigated threats, weapon possession, and violent crimes in K-12 schools throughout Orange County, California.

Social Media & Youth: Threats and Solutions first explains the current technology and applications our youth are using to access the Internet and social media networks. Secondly, cyberbullying and other online threats are defined with current trends and real-world examples that Clay Cranford has investigated in schools. Lastly, participants will be given tools and an action plan that they can immediately begin using to help keep their children and students safe online at home and at school.