1. NWDTC 2017 Sectional Presentation Landon Zacharyasz
ALICE
NWDTC 2017 Sectional Presentation
Landon Zacharyasz

2. Who am I? Husband and Dad Product of Lutheran Schools
Principal at Mount Olive in Appleton
Vice-Chairman of FVL Schools
President of NWDTC
Former lock-down participant and
lock-down leader

3. Qualifications? What makes me qualified to speak on ALICE?
Mount Olive has implemented ALICE
Appleton Police Department has trained me/our school in the program.
APD has witnessed and approved of our execution.
Parents have given approval of the change
I didn’t come up with the material!
These are not my ideas; I’m a messenger of a process I firmly believe in.

4. ALICE: Active Shooter Response
Objectives:
Understand (bad verb, I know) ALICE concepts and how to respond to different emergency situations.
Construct/Develop possible responses to emergency situations
Empower you to implement ALICE in your school and be confident in process.

5. As it relates to school intruders, what does your school currently do?
SURVEY
As it relates to school intruders, what does your school currently do?
How often do you practice school intruder drills?

6. What does ALICE do differently?
ALICE helps all personnel to consider our response when there is an active shooter scenario in or around our school and eliminates “Lockdown” as our only option.

7. ALICE
ALICE is one part of a school’s overall safety and security plan (WELSSA Standard 13)
Other key pieces include:
Evacuation procedures/plans
Drill Schedule and practice
Entrance control plans
Cameras
Communication tools
Alarms
And more!

8. QUOTE
“If someone bad gets in your building with a gun, people are going to die.”

9. What is an active shooter?
An active shooter is “an individual engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined or populated area.”
*per the NYPD, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, Department of Education, and the International Association of Chiefs of Police
These organizations sanctioned the principles and procedures of ALICE.

10. 1992 – 2010: School-associated violent deaths – 468
Active Shooter
What should we assume is the goal of an individual who process a deadly weapon in school?
1992 – 2010: School-associated violent deaths – 468
Shooting Deaths - 387

11. Columbine
April 20, 1999
Student A and Student B opened fire at Columbine High School, killing 12 fellow students and a teacher and wounding 24 others.
This incident forced law enforcement to begin changing how they planned to respond to an active shooter situation.

12. Map of School Shootings 1992 - 2013

13. Facts
There have been over 200 school shooting incidents since the Sandy Hook Massacre (as of December 14, 2016).
You’re 40x more likely to die in a school shooting than to be struck by lightning (as of October 3, 2012).
Still think it couldn’t happen to you?

14. School Safety and Security
What would you do if an active shooter came into your building today?

15. WE need to be prepared to respond!
25 years of mass shooting events have yielded a national average for the arrival response time of Law Enforcement to an Active Killer Scene.
How long do you think?
5-6 minutes
Columbine was 8.5 minutes, Vtech was 8 minutes

16. We have THREE natural responses
Flight: Evacuate
Freeze: Lockdown (Secure-in-Place)
Fight: Counter Strategies
Which is preferred?
It’s situational. There’s no one best answer, really.

17. A.L.I.C.E. Common Sense, just not Common Knowledge
Alert
Lockdown
Inform
Counter
Evacuate
ALICE is not a linear, sequential response!
Information, authorization, and proactive training are the keys to surviving an Active Shooter.

18. Not a complete procedure; rather, a set of general recommendations.
ALICE
Not a complete procedure; rather, a set of general recommendations.
No way to anticipate every possibility.
What if? What then?

19. ALERT
Information is the key to good decisions.
Information should flow in all directions.
Provide as much information as possible to as many as possible.
Use any and all available means: Texts, PA, Signage, Web, Twitter, Facebook, Bells, etc.

20. When should doors be locked? Locks can, and have been defeated.
LOCKDOWN
Good starting point
When should doors be locked?
All the time?
Locks can, and have been defeated.
Look for alternate escape routes, call 911, silence phones, don’t open the door for anyone

21. What, then? LOCKDOWN (cont.) Barricade (inward swinging doors)
Tools (Barracuda Defense and 3M Glass Film)
3M Glass Film
Barracuda Intruder Defense Systems

22. PRACTICE
An announcement has just come over the PA system saying that an armed intruder is in your school. There are two children in your classroom with physical disabilities who will not be able to run should that become necessary.
What options exist in a classroom for barricading and blocking entry?
Talk with a colleague.

23. INFORM
Provide as much real-time information as possible – by all means possible.
Use information to make single or collective decisions as to the best option for survival.
Information creates options! Example: “Armed intruder in the main gym, shots fired!”
How does this information help you?

24. All staff members are empowered to pass on real time information.
INFORM (cont.)
All staff members are empowered to pass on real time information.
Use plain language

25. COUNTER
Is it possible to interrupt the skill set needed to shoot accurately?

26. COUNTER (cont.)
Active Resistance is countering the shooter’s action with any objects of opportunity, such as chairs, desks, and books.
Active Resistance is the LAST RESORT and should only be used if potential victims are trapped in a room with an active shooter, there are already victims, and all other personal survival recommendations are no longer an option.

27. Simple, proactive techniques
COUNTER (cont.)
Simple, proactive techniques
Anything can be used as a distraction.
Create as much noise as possible.
Throw things at the shooter.
If appropriate, attack in a group (swarm)
Even just run right past the attacker.

28. Only 2% of violent intruder events have been by more than one person.
EVACUATE
Only 2% of violent intruder events have been by more than one person.
If the intruder is inside, you get outside.
Establish reunification/rally points.

29. PRACTICE
There is an armed intruder in your school.
The principal has announced that the intruder is heading toward the main office.
What are your best options for evacuation?
What will you say to your students?
Talk with a colleague.

30. SCHOOL SAFETY AND SECURITY

31. Lockdown is not our only option.
CHANGING THE MINDSET
Lockdown is not our only option.
Everyone determines what the best option is to keep you and your students as safe as possible.

32. THOUGHTS TO CONSIDER
Everyone knows exactly what to do when a fire alarm sounds. You’ve practiced it since you were in kindergarten.
The last time a child or teacher died in a school fire was in ____________?
1958
You should be authorized to make any decision necessary for the safety of the students.

33. QUOTE
In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The next best thing is the wrong thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing. – Teddy Roosevelt

34. PRACTICE
It is your first class following lunch. An announcement has just come over the PA system stating that there is an armed intruder in your school that has been sighted in an area very near to your classroom. You have determined that evacuation through the hallway is not a good option.
What options can you exercise?

35. PRACTICE
It’s the end of the school day. You are outside in the area most students use to exit school. Students are departing; parents are stopping to pick up students. You notice two adults in a car across the street arguing loudly when one of them starts waving a handgun at the other.
What do you do/say?

36. Summary Video
School Shooting Summary Video

37. WHAT SHOULD WE DO NOW?
Contact your local law enforcement to find out what they know about ALICE and to what extent they’d be willing to assist you in the implementation.
Talk with your staff about this process – educate the staff first!
Send a letter home introducing ALICE and hold an informative presentation for parents and congregational members.
Set up a rally point (some other local building)
Practice!

38. RESOURCES FOR YOU
“I’m not scared…I’m prepared!” by Julia Cook
Powerpoint Presentation
ALICE handout(s) with definitions
Potential training scenarios for you to use in your school

39. CLOSING This is not something that is easy to implement
Push-back from parents is probable
Educating the children is difficult
All of it is worthwhile
Questions?

40. THANK YOU!