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BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SCHOOL-BASED SITE COUNCIL 55 Middleby Road, Lexington, MA 02421 781-861-2510 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2018 MEETING MINUTES APPROVED DECEMBER 21, 2018 PRESENT: Meg Colella, Tiffany Crooker, Erin Cerat,Jon Cunha, Kristen Gray, Kimberly Hensle Lowrance, Ruth Litchfield,Amy Kvaal, Zeba McGibbon, Sejal Petal, Deirdre Schadler, Kira Sevene, Melanie Tanionos, and Maria Totniou. ABSENT: Lynnette Allen,Amelia Brower, Lucia Brower, Megan Brown,Allison Gullingsrud, Huan Liu, Beth Murnaghan, Debbie Side, and Shawn Wood. The Bridge Elementary School School-Based Site Council held its monthly meeting on October 19, 2018 at 8 AM in the Bridge School Library. Meg Colella opened the meeting with an introduction to the safety training Bridge staff are in the process of undergoing. (See more information in her November newsletter: https://www.smore.com/2spyc.) The training is called ALICE and stands for Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, and Evacuate (see https://www.alicetraining.com/).ALICE "provides preparation and a plan for individuals and organizations on how to more proactively handle the threat of an aggressive intruder or active shooter event." Meg explains that it is designed to give staff the tools to know how to respond to an emergency. The current focus for LPS is to roll out consistent emergency preparedness to all staff, as there are differences between how the schools have addressed this issue. Before ALICE, staff would be instructed to go on lockdown during emergency.With ALICE, staff are empowered with five non-sequential options that can be used to increase their chances of surviving a surprise attack by a dangerous person. Research has shown that, in a violent critical incident, having multiple options helps increase survival rates. Such incidents typically last for under five minutes, so giving staff options and going through a number of trainings with them will help them be more prepared. Staff will have a scenario- based training on November 8 with the Lexington Police to act out what would happen if there were an intruder in the building.This type of overview was last offered in 2014. Meg, a certified ALICE trainer, described the steps of ALICE as follows: • Alert-tell people, as clearly as possible,what's happening • Lockdown - people stay in room that they're in and barricade themselves in, making sure there is heavier furniture by the door to block the entrance • Inform -tell people in building what's going on and call 911 • Counter-this is a last resort, it's what to do if an intruder makes it in the room (for example: throwing objects at the intruder) 1