Exploration of Sandy Hook perpetrator's path to violence and everyday opportunities (and interventions) for EVERY adult to shepherd students EVERY day.
Lead ITF Digital Resources Manager, Cabarrus County Schools
Meredith is the Lead Instructional Technology Facilitator and Digital Resource Manager for Cabarrus County Schools. With 18 years of experience in North Carolina public education, she is dedicated to enhancing digital learning and supporting educators in effective technology integration... Read More →
Technology Training Manager, Cabarrus County Schools
Tina Platek is a district lead librarian and technology training manager for Cabarrus County Schools. With 20 years of experience teaching ELA, Broadcast Journalism, and working as an SLMC in high schools she has dedicated her work to enriching student experiences with literature... Read More →
Returning from Last Year : This session will focus on effective crisis communications strategies for schools, emphasizing the importance of clear, timely, and accurate messaging during emergencies
Explore strategies to enhance cyber and online safety for both staff and students, with customizable guidance aligned to CCS goals. This session will address current threats, prevention practices, and how to build a safer digital environment in schools.
Planning and preparation for the safety of ALL students, staff, and visitors (identifying and accommodating for "special needs" (e.g. trauma, EL learners, physical and cognitive disabilities) *Suggest customization to match CCS current program
MTSS as a universal model for the prevention of harm and violence. Building tier 1-3 interventions across areas of need (e.g., suicide, threatening/concerning behaviors, trauma, grief, and more.
Ms. Davis created a calming corner in our counselor suite this year. We will share that experience also. Ms. Davis has experience as a teacher at the middle school level and K-12. Ms. Smith has experience as a teacher at the high school level. Ms. Blake has been a school counselor at the middle and high school levels.
This interactive session equips School Resource Officers (SROs) with the tools and knowledge needed to effectively support students with disabilities, including those with Autism, Intellectual Disabilities (ID), and behavioral needs.
This session will assist school administrators in making sure they consider the "whole child" and IEP/BIP requirements when following up on disciplinary items within a centralized classroom.
Returning from Last Year: This session will focus on effective crisis communications strategies for schools, emphasizing the importance of clear, timely, and accurate messaging during emergencies
Explore how Safe and Sound Schools’ Comprehensive Framework can transform the way your school community approaches safety. This session guides participants through assessing current resources and identifying gaps across the six key domains of school safety, ranging from physical security to mental and behavioral health. Learn how to build and empower a multi-disciplinary safety team that ensures a holistic, proactive, and sustainable approach to school safety.
Explore strategies to enhance cyber and online safety for both staff and students, with customizable guidance aligned to CCS goals. This session will address current threats, prevention practices, and how to build a safer digital environment in schools.
Best practices in developing a multi-hazard emergency plan; representing your comprehensive approach in your plan; and developing an impactful drill program that focuses on building staff and student confidence with emergency procedures through a progression of teaching and learning
Our intention is to help school staff make sense of the common behaviors they witness among youth and understand that these may be the result of students being bumped out of their Resilient Zone.
How and why are we supporting students in recovery in CCS? Substance use and mental health challenges are growing concerns among students in our district, often leading to academic struggles, school dropouts, and long-term negative impacts. Our Recovery High School Program provides a specialized, supportive environment where students recovering from substance use disorders can continue their education while receiving the care and peer support they need.
Beyond school-wide safety protocols, options-based safety education for students PK-12, based on adaptation of CRASE principles, adapted and expanded to PK-12 curriculum
On September 28, 2016, middle school counselor, Molly Hudgens, would be faced with the most difficult day of her 18-year career when a 14-year-old student, armed with a semi-automatic handgun, additional ammunition, and a plan to harm people on campus, came to her in the counseling department of a rural school In Pleasant View, Tennessee. He claimed that he came to her because she was “the only person who could talk him out of it.” Over the course of 90 minutes, Hudgens would convince the young man to relinquish the weapon with no shots fired and no lives lost. The incident would earn Hudgens the Congressional Medal of Honor’s Citizens Honor for a single act of heroism.
In this workshop, Hudgens, a 21-year veteran of education, guides the audience through the entire ninety minutes of the incident using pictures and her first-person account of that day. Designed to teach professionals how to recognize and respond to young people in crisis, Hudgens’ dissection of “The School Shooting that Never Happened” parallels an in-depth psychological study of school shooters with the behaviors and actions of the young man at her school for the year leading up to and the day of his incident. Hudgens’ explanation will demonstrate how 18 years of research into the psychological mindset of violent teenage offenders on campus prepared her to “Recognize the Red Flags” she used to save her life and that of others at her school that day…including the young man involved.
Participants will leave prepared to make changes to their crisis plans in order to include not only recognition of potential offenders and threat assessment tools, but also how to incorporate interventions through mental health counseling, student connectedness, and staff preparedness.
Natural disasters can strike with little warning, disrupting school operations and endangering students, staff, and communities. This panel brings together school leaders and emergency responders who have weathered tornadoes, wildfires, hurricanes, and floods. Through firsthand stories and lessons learned, panelists will explore strategies for preparedness, real-time crisis response, and long-term recovery. Participants will leave with actionable insights for building resilience, strengthening emergency plans, and supporting students and staff through every phase of a natural disaster.
This session will assist school administrators in making sure they consider the "whole child" and IEP/BIP requirements when following up on disciplinary items within a centralized classroom.
Discover how meeting students’ basic needs is a critical foundation for school safety. This session introduces the Bright Futures Framework as a tool to engage your community in UPSTREAM prevention, relationship-building, and mentoring. Learn how fostering connectedness and coordinated support can reduce risk, build resilience, and create safer, more supportive learning environments for all students.
A longstanding challenge for school communities across the country and spanning decades of American public education, bullying behavior is harmful to victims, offenders, and school communities nationwide, as well as linked to long-term mental health impacts and violent behaviors. Participants will explore the myriad issues and presentations of bullying in this module, exploring their impact upon students’ learning and sense of safety in school today. Examining multi-tiered solutions, interventions, strategies, and supports, participants will learn to identify and combat these challenges through universal, targeted, and intensive interventions and resources.
Outcome: Apply a multi-tiered systems approach to preventing, addressing, and supporting students affected by bullying and bullying behaviors.
Objectives: • Recognize and identify bullying behaviors within the school community. • Recognize students experiencing bullying. • Identify examples of tiered supports for students experiencing bullying. • Identify examples of tiered supports for students exhibiting bullying behaviors.
Chief Accountability Officer, Cabarrus County Schools
Karl Sain began his career in education as a high school math teacher. After moving to school administration, he became a math curriculum and instructional support for Gaston county schools and Cabarrus County Schools. Karl is now the Director of Advanced Academics in Cabarrus County... Read More →
Fire extinguishers can be taught in skills classes such as Cooking classes, Shop, Vehicle Mechanics, etc. We use a digital panel and infrared fire extinguishers. No cleanup and no danger.
This interactive session equips School Resource Officers (SROs) with the tools and knowledge needed to effectively support students with disabilities, including those with Autism, Intellectual Disabilities (ID), and behavioral needs.
This session will take a deeper look at current trends in human trafficking and explore the increasing safety concerns related to access to technology. The presenters will delve into the role technology, social media, and AI play in grooming and recruiting human trafficking victims. This training will cover current apps and games that traffickers are using to access children, as well as raise awareness of other safety concerns related to technology, including sextortion and groups like 764 that target minors with the intent to exploit and harm.
Objective: Participants will learn how to initiate, implement, and monitor an RRIP, document unsafe behaviors, identify triggers, and develop effective response strategies.
