School Safety Is Important To Us
The safety of our students and staff is our top priority in the School District of Milton. District administration and student services team members meet regularly with local law enforcement and emergency management agencies during our Safe Schools Committee meetings. Our Crisis and Communications Managemeent Plan (CCMP), is reviewed annualy with administration and outlines response protocols for a variety of critical incidents that could present themselves.
Throughout the school year, building principals meet with their designated building safety teams to ensure that a Department of Public Instruction required school safety checklist is completed annually. The checklist is designed to ensure we are not only meeting the annual requirements but that we are thinking about and practicing the ways we can best keep our students, staff, and visitors safe while in our schools.
Buildings Locked Throughout The Day
Our school buildings’ exterior doors are locked at all times during the school day. Visitors must “Check In” at the front office and obtain a visitor badge when they are visiting inside our schools. In addition to this safety measure, all of our school buildings have strategically placed security cameras to serve as a deterrent to crime and as a valued resource if concerning incidents take place on school grounds.
I Love You Guys Foundation Standard Response Protocol
The School District of Milton, in alignment with our neighboring school districts, uses the I Love You Guys Foundations’ Standard Response Protocol (SRP) as an action-based, pracitical response system should a critical incident occur. The SRP’s insistence on shared lexicon means that all studnets, staff, and emergency responders are using a shared language and clear set of action to respond to emergency events and critical situations. Students and staff are review the SRP each trimester, and always in an age-appropriate and clear manner to ensure tha our students feel empowered, confidentm and ready should an incident arise.
Communication During A Crisis:
We have several different ways we communicate with parents during a crisis. Please know that each critical incident is unique to itself and that those situations are often very fluid. We strive to communicate timely, meaningful, accurate information to our families as quickly as possible, without causing unnecessary alarm. To do so, we utilize the following communication methods:
1) Automatic Phone Call: Often referred to as “Robo Call”, this is a phone call from an administrator that generally alerts families to a school closing, late start, early release, or a significant modification to the school day due to an unforeseen situation.
2) Emergency Text Alerts: We use the text alert system with the same guidelines as the “Robo Call”, in that school is being canceled, delayed, released early, or a significant change in the daily schedule is taking place that must be communicated immediately. Am emergency evacuation of students to a different building may also cause us to utilize this method of communication with our families if a call to action or a response from them regarding students is deemed necessary. You can sign up for the program by scrolling down on this page and learning how to enroll.
3) Local Media Outlets: When appropriate, we notify local media outlets of a school closing or early release. This is generally reserved for weather related closings (see school closings page under Communications), or may be used if there is an emergency evacuation and parents are asked to pick students up at an alternate location.
4) Social Media: We use Facebook and Instagram as our two primary mechanisms of social media to communicate out information. These are among our last to be used in critical incidents in terms of their sequence, due to us prioritizing family and staff communication first.
5) Skyward Family Access Email: This method is a commonly used method of communication used our district office and building principals to share information about situations that happened at school. This communication is designed to brief parents about a situation that while serious, did not rise to the level of requiring immediate notification and/or a “call to action” from parents or guardians, and instead serves as the sharing of important information about a situation that happened during the school day, what we did, (or are doing), and why.
How do I get on the texting list?
Log into Skyward Family Access
Change your SECOND phone number listed to equal the phone number you would like to receive text at. Be sure to SAVE the changes you made.
Signing Up For Emergency Text Alerts Once Your Phone Number Is Correct in Skyward
My phone number is correct, but I cannot find the text message inviting me to participate.
If you are confident you have your phone number set correctly in Skyward, you may self-enroll by texting the word “YES” to 68453
I would like to discontinue receiving text messages from the School District of Milton. Families are welcome to stop text messages at any time by texting the word “STOP” to 68453
Is my cell phone carrier supported?
The participating cell phone carriers include: AT&T, T-Mobile®, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, Alltel, Boost, Nextel, U.S. Cellular™, Dobson, MetroPCS
