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Rocky Mountain Consulting specializes in assisting K-12 administrators with school safety and security planning, and developing sustainable processes around culture/climate, onboarding, staff professional development, and instructional strategies.

Emergency preparedness isn’t only about preparing for the worst day. It’s about being ready for the situations schools m...
09/16/2026

Emergency preparedness isn’t only about preparing for the worst day. It’s about being ready for the situations schools manage every day.

Our team had the opportunity to work with Ruth Fisher Middle School, focusing on emergency response and Incident Command System (ICS) training.

On a large 6–8 campus, medical emergencies, student incidents, custody situations, facility issues, and other disruptions require the same fundamentals as larger critical events: clear roles, strong communication, and coordinated response.

The incident may change. The need for a practiced response system doesn’t.

Confidence through competence.

Today is 988 Day. And today, an Arizona school community is grieving. This morning, a student was found deceased on the ...
09/14/2026

Today is 988 Day. And today, an Arizona school community is grieving.

This morning, a student was found deceased on the campus of Marana High School.

Early reports indicate the student entered the campus during the overnight hours and took his own life. The circumstances remain under investigation, and official details are still limited.

Do you know what 988 Day is? A national day dedicated to raising awareness of the 988 Su***de & Crisis Lifeline and reminding people that help is available before a crisis becomes a tragedy.

For those of us working in school safety, it is an important reminder:

School safety isn't only about preventing students from harming others. It is also about recognizing and supporting students who may be at risk of harming themselves.

That requires reporting systems students will actually use, adults who recognize warning signs, multidisciplinary teams that connect safety with support, and a culture where students know exactly where to turn.

Ask your students:

“If you were worried about yourself or someone else, what trusted adult could you tell at school?”

My thoughts are with the student’s family and the entire Marana High School community.

DO YOU HAVE A MINUTE?If you work in school administration, “Do you have a minute?” rarely means a minute. Somehow, it tu...
09/08/2026

DO YOU HAVE A MINUTE?

If you work in school administration, “Do you have a minute?” rarely means a minute. Somehow, it turns into 30.

Not here.

Every week, I’m taking just 60 seconds of your time for one school safety topic and one practical takeaway you can put to work.

This week: Your EOP is not the plan.

Having a compliant Emergency Operations Plan is important. But a completed document does not make a school prepared.

A plan is only as good as your staff’s ability to carry it out.

If your EOP says staff will evacuate, account for students, communicate emergencies, establish Incident Command, or initiate reunification, but the people responsible for those actions have never practiced them, the procedure exists on paper, not operationally.

That gap matters because emergencies don’t give us time to pull out the EOP and start reading.

The goal of an EOP isn’t simply to document your procedures. It’s to create enough clarity, training, and repetition that people can execute them under stress.

Your 60-second takeaway: Pick one procedure in your EOP and ask someone responsible for carrying it out: “Without looking at the plan, walk me through what you would do.”

If the written plan and their answer don’t match, you just found your next training topic.

Supporting the SROs Who Support Our SchoolsSchool safety works best when the people responsible for it are learning, pla...
09/03/2026

Supporting the SROs Who Support Our Schools

School safety works best when the people responsible for it are learning, planning, and problem-solving together.

That means educators and administrators, mental health professionals, emergency managers, first responders, and .

But we also know that some of the law enforcement professionals who would benefit most from these conversations simply don’t have professional development dollars available to attend.

We want to help remove that barrier.

The Southwest School Safety Summit is offering 10 registration scholarships specifically for SROs serving schools across Arizona and the Southwest.

Each scholarship covers the full registration fee for both days of the Summit. Recipients are responsible for their own travel and lodging.

SROs: If funding through your department, agency, or school may prevent you from attending, please apply. We’ve intentionally kept the application brief.

School leaders and educators: Please share this opportunity with your SROs and law enforcement partners. Sometimes the person who needs to see an opportunity like this isn’t on the conference mailing list.

The goal of this Summit has always been to bring together the different professionals responsible for keeping students and schools safe, and make the conversation practical, collaborative, and accessible.

We hope these scholarships help bring 10 more important voices into the room.

📍 Southwest School Safety Summit
Yavapai College | Prescott, Arizona

📅 November 5–6, 2026
➡️ Two full days | $125 per person
➡️ Register 4 attendees and the 5th registration is FREE
➡️ Attendance intentionally capped at 125 participants and more than half of the seats are already spoken for.

SRO Scholarship Link: https://forms.gle/V1RdaXFAFxdYhLiL9
Summit Registration Link: https://www.yc.edu/ji

DO YOU HAVE A MINUTE?If you work in school administration, “Do you have a minute?” rarely means a minute. Somehow, it tu...
08/31/2026

DO YOU HAVE A MINUTE?

If you work in school administration, “Do you have a minute?” rarely means a minute. Somehow, it turns into 30.

Every Monday, I’m taking just 60 seconds of your time for one school safety topic and one practical takeaway you can put to work.

One minute. I promise.

This Week: Emergency Communication

Here’s a question I ask schools all the time:

If the first person to see an emergency is a teacher, custodian, bus driver, or paraprofessional, can they immediately alert everyone else?

Communication is often one of the first things to break down during an emergency. When information has to travel through multiple people before reaching someone authorized to send a campus-wide alert, every additional step costs time and creates an opportunity for delay or misunderstanding.

There’s another piece to this: people need agency in their own safety. The person who sees the emergency first shouldn’t have to wait for someone higher on an organizational chart to communicate an immediate threat.

Emergency communication should be fast, redundant, and accessible, and it shouldn’t depend on who discovers the problem.

Your 60-second takeaway: Pick three employees outside your administrative team and ask: “If you saw an emergency right now, how would you alert the entire campus?”

If you get three different answers, or any version of “I’d call the office," you just found something worth addressing.

Our team had the opportunity to provide school safety and security training at Desert Sunset Elementary last week. One o...
08/14/2026

Our team had the opportunity to provide school safety and security training at Desert Sunset Elementary last week.

One of the best conversations of the day centered around a question that every school should be asking:

Who might be responsible for students during an emergency?

It's easy to focus on classroom teachers, but students are also supervised by substitute teachers, paraprofessionals, front office staff, cafeteria workers, transportation staff, contracted service providers, and volunteers. In an emergency, every adult on campus has a role to play.

Preparedness isn't about having a plan on a shelf. It's about ensuring that every adult who could be responsible for children understands the plan, knows the protocols, and has the confidence to act.

Thank you to the Desert Sunset team for your engagement, thoughtful questions, and commitment to building a culture of preparedness before the school year begins. Those conversations today will make a difference when it matters most.

The Arizona Charter Schools Association and National Center for the Prevention of Community Violence (NCPCV) will be fac...
08/07/2026

The Arizona Charter Schools Association and National Center for the Prevention of Community Violence (NCPCV) will be facilitating a one day conference for charter school leaders, educators, and safety professionals focused on practical, research-based strategies for creating safer, more supportive learning environments. While student behavior isn't always within our control, how we respond can make all the difference.

We will be talking about student regulation, teacher de-escalation, how to support staff working with students who have access and functional needs, as well as protective factors in schools.

To accommodate high demand, the conference is being offered on two separate dates. Please register for either September 15 or September 16 - the same sessions will be presented both days.

Conference Details
Date: September 15 or September 16, 2026
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Lunch: Included
Registration Fee: $100 per attendee

Space is limited, so early registration is encouraged. Schools outside Maricopa County may attend virtually. Virtual attendees will receive an agenda and Zoom links prior to the event.

Register Here: https://form.jotform.com/262166977755979

As another Arizona school year begins, I'm reminded why this is my favorite time of year.Last week our team had the oppo...
08/07/2026

As another Arizona school year begins, I'm reminded why this is my favorite time of year.
Last week our team had the opportunity to work with educators at Tonopah Valley High School on emergency preparedness and the Incident Command System (ICS). We spent time discussing "Black Swans," the rare, unpredictable events, and "Gray Rhinos," the high-probability risks we know are coming but too often fail to prepare for.

We talked about the fact ICS isn't just for emergencies. The same flexible command structure that helps schools respond to a crisis also helps them successfully manage Friday night football games, large community events, power outages, severe weather, and countless other situations that require coordination and clear decision-making. It's a leadership framework as much as it is an emergency management system.

Of course we also talked about protective factors, because the strongest emergency response is the one you never have to activate. Building relationships, creating clear expectations, and preparing staff before something goes wrong are just as important as knowing what to do when it does.

Before the students arrive, school leaders and frontline educators are investing their time to prepare, practice, and build confidence. That's where the real work happens. That's where culture is built. And that's where safer schools begin.

If you only have two days to invest in professional learning this year...where would you spend them?When we began planni...
07/27/2026

If you only have two days to invest in professional learning this year...where would you spend them?

When we began planning the Southwest School Safety Summit, that was the question we kept coming back to.

The answer was a conference centered on practical conversations, real-world experiences, and nationally recognized experts who are willing to share what works, what they've learned, and what school leaders can implement immediately.

That's exactly what you'll find on November 5–6 at Yavapai College in Prescott, Arizona for only $125/attendee.

We're also incredibly grateful to the organizations helping make this summit possible. Thank you to Share911, Stryker, CORE Construction, Yavapai College Justice Institute, The Hassayampa Inn, and Safe Hiring Solutions LLC for investing in this opportunity to bring high-quality professional learning to Arizona's education community.

If you're passionate about building safer schools and stronger communities, we hope you'll join us.

📅 November 5–6, 2026
📍 Yavapai College | Prescott, Arizona
🔗 Register today: www.yc.edu/ji

07/24/2026

This week I had the opportunity to facilitate Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management (BTAM) training with the team at Keystone Montessori.

What stood out wasn’t just their engagement during training, it was the commitment they’ve demonstrated over the past several months to building a comprehensive culture of safety.

Too often, school safety is viewed as a single initiative or the purchase of a new piece of technology. Keystone has taken a different approach.

They’ve invested in:
• Revamping their Emergency Operations Plan
• Implementing Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management (BTAM)
• Strengthening their family reunification procedures
• Reviewing and refining policies and procedures
• Optimizing visitor management and emergency communication
• Enhancing centralized reporting so concerns are identified and addressed early

None of these efforts grab headlines on their own. But together, they create something far more important: a safer, more prepared school community.

School safety isn’t built in one training, one policy, or one product. It’s built through intentional leadership, continuous improvement, and the willingness to do the hard work behind the scenes.

Congratulations to the leadership team at Keystone for making safety a priority.

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