New Principals

Coaching & Consulting

Increase your skills. Enhance your credibility.

New principals are expected be an expert in all things...including school safety

It can feel overwhelming.
Like maybe you’re not good enough. 
But it doesn’t have to feel that way!

In two days you’ll learn what takes most leaders years to figure out—if they ever do. 

Together, we’ll master Safe & Loved and the 4 Threat Pillars so you can Identify, Assess, Prevent, and Survive a threat. 
Giving you the skills to prevent school shootings, close gaps in connection, improve culture, reduce vulnerability, fear, and student disruptions as well as boost your credibility with teachers, staff, and parents.

No more guesswork.
You'll know exactly what to do and what to say.

This is not like current safety training.
It’s different, hands-on, high energy, and like your new role…exciting.

Everyone has to do school safety.
Why not do the kind that actually makes your school safer and your people feel more loved?

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What's Covered

We’ll spend our time learning, practicing, and applying concepts like:

  1. Understand the Safe & Loved system to become the safety expert in your school
  2. Recognize the signs of violence and how to stop it before it starts
  3. Integrate Safe & Loved into the daily rhythms of school life without disruption
  4. Turn every positive student interaction into a protective action
  5. Master E-SAT to dramatically reduce vulnerability in your building
  6. Build a culture that retains staff because they feel safe and valued
  7. Lead with clarity using the 4 Threat Pillars and 8 Principles of Safe & Loved
  8. Distinguish between normal behavior and real warning signs
  9. Use the Path to Violence model to predict and stop danger early
  10. Respond to threats and crisis situations in real time with calm and speed
  11. Execute a full lockdown in under 7 seconds
  12. Lead through love, clarity, and inspiration—even in high-stress moments
  13. Maintain your team’s energy, focus, and direction even under pressure
  14. Shift mindsets schoolwide from burnout to gratitude, from fear to trust

Pressing Issues

We’ll also tackle your most pressing challenges and create real-time solutions together. It can be anything you want such as:

  1. Figuring out how to assess and support a student who’s raised concerns
  2. Making a plan to safely welcome back a suspended or struggling student
  3. Dealing with a troubling incident or ongoing safety concern that’s weighing on your staff
  4. Finding a real answer for the constant fighting or conflict on campus
  5. Turning around a low-energy staff culture and boosting engagement
  6. Fixing arrival and dismissal so it’s calm, covered, and welcoming
  7. Getting bathroom behavior and safety under control
  8. Dealing with staff cliques, silos, or growing factions
  9. Improving lunchroom safety, procedures, and overall student behavior
  10. Repairing trust with parents, staff, or students after a difficult event
  11. Updating safety policies that are outdated, vague, or not followed
  12. Strengthening visitor check-in and access control procedures
  13. Communicating clearly during or after a crisis to parents, staff, and even the media
  14. Improving your school’s physical security without harming your culture
  15. Or anything else you’re facing we’re here to help you solve it

Ongoing Support (as needed)

  1. On-call support for urgent threat or implementation assistance
  2. Scheduled 1:1 check-ins
  3. Monthly virtual coaching sessions
  4. Leader-to-leader briefings (how it’s going, trends, needs)
  5. Monthly Leadership email tips, reminders, spotlight stories, system nudges

Fee

$9,875

Included with Fee:

  1. 2 total days onsite coaching
  2. Safe & Loved assessment tools
  3. E-SAT and 5-10-15 engagement tools
  4. 7-Second Lockdown Program (optional)
  5. Community Trust Assets (ready-to-send letters, emails, social posts)
  6. Travel & expenses
  7. Assess & Progress Student Safety Program and worksheets
  8. One year of ongoing support
  9. Prompted reminders to maintain focus and follow-through
  10. Continued coaching and consulting for a year via phone, text, and video
  11. Access to the Safe & Loved Resource Center
  12. Staff development opportunities (video or phone)
  13. Ready made materials

Ready to get started?

Just fill out the form below. We'll be happy to answer your questions and walk you through the next steps.

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Call or text 540‑577‑7200.

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