Available Safe & Loved

Project Details:

1. Teacher professional development (typically 3 hours).
2. Continued support, consulting, and coaching in helping staff members to successfully implement the techniques, methods, and strategies.
3. Designed for school districts but can be presented to individual schools.

Safe & Loved for Teachers is the only school safety presentation and strategy that consistently and repeatedly garners standing ovations from teachers!

We get standing ovations because our approach to school safety is new, effective, inspiring, holistic, and 100% teacher-focused. Educators love Safe & Loved because we treat them not as a problem, but as what they truly are—the greatest safety asset a school has.

This innovative approach equips and uplifts educators, inspiring and empowering them to take an active role in preventing violence and school attacks.

Project Overview:

Safe & Loved for Teachers is for those who want a professional development experience that breaks the mold of traditional safety training. This dynamic, inspirational program shows teachers how to seamlessly blend proven violence prevention techniques into daily interactions through positive student engagement.

Available as a 3-hour district-wide presentation or a series of shorter school-based sessions, Safe & Loved for Teachers empowers staff members to create safer schools while making students and parents feel more respected, valued, and loved.

NOTE:
Safe & Loved for Teachers has 2 versions: one for new districts unfamiliar with it and another for districts that have already received it but would like to explore new topics as well as reinforce previous concepts.

Topics:

1. Make student engagements safer, more positive, more instructive, and more frequent.
2. Blend proven, positive, and people focused violence prevention techniques into the school day, classroom, and student engagements (SAFE & LOVED).
3. Spot if a student is on the Path to Violence (reading negative behaviors and trajectories, identifying indicators of impending violence, and commonalities in school attackers).
4. Distinguish dangerous from non-dangerous behavior.
5. Utilize the E-SAT engagement method to make students safer and feel more loved.
6. Course correct troubling behaviors (5-10-15 method) through positive engagement.
7. ACT FAST (the 3 things teachers do to survive a school attack).
8. Speed up and perfect lockdowns.
9. Utilize personal help/support techniques for teachers so they can love the unlovable student, guard their gratitude (how a loss of gratitude is the first step towards burnout and how to protect yourself from it), and routines that make a teacher’s day safer as well as happier and more successful.

Request More Information:
Email info@donshomette.com or call 540-577-7200 to request a detailed proposal.

Project Details:

1. Premier training and consultation program.
2. 5 days training followed by continuous support, coaching, and consultation.
3. Each participant is certified as a Safe & Loved Practitioner.
4. Practitioners are authorized to certify your schools as Safe & Loved.
5. Designed to be district-wide but can be implemented for individual schools.

Project Overview:

Safe & Loved – Train-the-Trainers will forever change your safety, culture, and schools in as little as one week!

This advanced training certifies your school personnel as Safe & Loved Practitioners who are prepared, equipped, and capable of implementing Safe & Loved throughout the district as well as certifying individual schools as Safe & Loved.

This model not only enhances the safety, skills, and abilities of the entire faculty but also inspires and uplifts staff members by investing in their professional growth, leading to increased morale, happiness, and retention.

Who Should Attend:

1. Superintendents/principals.
2. Deans of students.
3. Directors of Safety.
4. Building & Grounds Supervisors.
5. SRO’s/DARE/Youth Officers/law enforcement.
6. School psychologists/counselors.
7. Social workers.
8. Safety team members.
9. Other school leaders/designated personnel.
10. Teachers/staff members.

Participants Will Receive:

1. 5 days of advance training, coaching, and consulting.
2. Certification as a Safe & Loved Practitioner.
3. The skills, abilities, and materials to certify your own schools as Safe & Loved.
4. Personal consulting and one-on-one coaching.
5. Safe & Loved Implementation and Action Plans.
6. Materials and Support in meeting Safe & Loved Standards.
7. 6 Dedicated Coaching Sessions within 18 months of start of project.
8. Direct and Continued Access to Don Shomette.
9. Staff Development Materials and Opportunities (video, phone, in-person).
10. Comprehensive Leader Action Plans.
11. Routine/Regular Connections and Progress Check-Ins.
12. 7 Second Lockdown program with drills, templates, and evaluations.
13. Project Completion Recognition and Certificate (35 credit hours).
14. Online access to download course materials, procedures, and additional resources.

Points of Interest:

1. Instruction consists of case studies from previous school attacks, guided discussions, examples from other successful schools, and hands on practical applications in assessing and implementing Safe & Loved.
2. Participants receive Safe & Loved Implementation and Action Plans that maintain focus, forward momentum, and ensures success.
3. A heavy emphasis is placed on learning and becoming proficient in implementing CPTED (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design). This international and proven violence prevention model is the foundation of Safe & Loved and it focuses on reshaping a school environment and pushing out unwanted and dangerous behaviors so violence can never happen.
4. One of the goals of the training (and support) will be to equip participants to guide, lead, and to be a valuable resource to ensure that each school can effectively identify, assess, prevent, and survive a threat.
5. Participants will learn how to implement, evaluate, and enhance the Safe & Loved standards that must be met for a school to be certified Safe & Loved.
6. Participants will learn how to implement the 7 Second Lockdown, run lockdown drills, and to help each school to become proficient in locking down in 7 seconds or less. Participants will receive PowerPoints, teacher evaluations, leader guides, and other staff development materials.
7. After participants become certified as a Safe & Loved Practitioner, they will be equipped to fully implement Safe & Loved throughout the district. Safe & Loved Practitioners will also gain the necessary skills, materials, and support to evaluate each school’s progress in adopting Safe & Loved and to certify schools as Safe & Loved when they are ready and are adequately prepared.
8. Don Shomette will personally assist Safe & Loved Practitioners as needed through video calls, phone conversations, or when applicable, in-person visits to clarify concepts, methods, and techniques.
9. To ensure Safe & Loved Practitioners are supported, Don Shomette will connect regularly to review progress, address any concerns, and adjust leader action plans as needed.
10. Don Shomette will offer 6 focused group or one-on-one coaching sessions. These are distinct from general help calls or check-ins. These sessions will specifically target skill enhancement and address any observed areas for improvement.

Request More Information:
Email info@donshomette.com or call 540-577-7200 to request a detailed proposal.

Project Details:

1. Premier student threat assessment program.
2. 2 days onsite training/professional development.
3. Continued support and one-on-one consultation for participants who conduct student safety assessments and create intervention and management plans for students who are making threats or displaying indicators of danger.
4. Continued support, consulting, and coaching in helping participants to successfully implement the techniques and methods as well as utilize the worksheets and procedures.
5. Designed for either district or individual schools.

Project Overview:

Assess & Progress is for those who want to be able to quickly and accurately assess if a student truly poses a danger and the abilities and materials to progress them to a safer place.

Assess & Progress revolutionized school threat assessments by creating a growth-based approach that treats students holistically, providing the only program that supports students, parents, and schools with positive techniques, methods, materials, and plans until the student is no longer a threat.

Unlike current threat assessment procedures, Assess & Progress continues to be invaluable long after an initial risk is determined, ensuring your safety is better, your results more positive and lasting, and your efforts more sustainable and rewarding.

Who Should Attend:

1. Superintendents/principals.
2. Deans of students.
3. Directors of Safety.
4. SRO’s/DARE/Youth Officers/law enforcement.
5. School psychologists/counselors.
6. Social workers.
7. Safety team members.
8. Other school leaders/designated personnel.
9. Teachers/staff members.

Participants Will Receive:

1. Paper and electronic copy of the Assess & Progress Program/Procedures.
2. Parent guide.
3. Path to Violence worksheet.
4. Search worksheets.
5. Student, parent, and witness worksheets and suggested questions.
6. Substantial Step Worksheet.
7. 5 page Master Worksheet.
8. Certificate of course completion (14 credit hours).
9. Online access to download course materials, procedures, and additional resources.
10. Continued support in conducting student safety assessments and creating intervention and management plans.
11. Continued support, consulting, and coaching in helping participants to successfully implement the techniques and methods as well as utilize the worksheets and procedures.

Topics:

1. Tools to rapidly identify students as Unsafe, Struggling, Satisfactory, and Strong.
2. Distinguish normal from threatening behaviors.
3. Identify indicators of imminent or impending danger.
4. Assess (read) student behaviors and determine their true risk level.
5. Predict future student behaviors & calculate potential risk of each.
6. Confidently make a 'snapshot' assessment and implement immediate lifesaving actions.
7. Utilizing The Path to Violence model to determine if a behavior is truly dangerous, current student trajectory, and how close a student is to using violence.
8. Growth plans, methods, and techniques to help students in the Unsafe category progress to a higher category in the 4 Categories of Life.
9. Develop in students the capability to evaluate their current placement in the 4 Categories of Life by utilizing Assess & Progress Student Worksheets.
10. Effectively interview students, parents, and witnesses.
11. Assist parents in understanding and utilizing the Parent Guide and Assess & Progress Growth worksheets for their children.
12. Prevent stigmatizing students and alienating parents.
13. Effectively respond to teachers, parents, and the media.
14. Administer effective discipline after a student has made a threat of violence.
15. Implement effective intervention techniques to manage a dangerous student and to lower the risk of that student using violence.
16. Integrate suspended and expelled students safely back into the school.
17. Collaborating effectively with police and other critical support professionals.
18. Protecting yourself and your school from legal and civil liability.

Request More Information:
Email info@donshomette.com or call 540-577-7200 to request a detailed proposal.

Project Details:

1. 2 day leadership training/professional development.
2. Continued support, consulting, and coaching in successfully implementing the techniques, methods, and strategies.
3. Designed for either district or individual schools.

Project Overview:

Love & Lead is for school leaders who sometime allow their own emotional health, personal growth, and happiness to take a backseat to those they love and lead. When leaders do this they become less effective, less resilient, less grateful, and more prone to burnout.

Leaders who prioritize their own personal growth and emotional health create a happier culture, higher levels of success, and a safer school.

Love & Lead resets the balance by providing dedicated strategies, methods, and routines to safeguard your emotional health, enabling you to lead with renewed strength and clarity.

More than a program, it's a holistic blueprint that helps you maintain balance, enhance your energy, wisdom, grace, and confidence.

When you thrive, everyone thrives.

Who Should Attend:

1. Superintendents/principals.
2. Deans of students.
3. Directors of Safety.
4. SRO’s/DARE/Youth Officers/law enforcement.
5. School psychologists/counselors.
6. Social workers.
7. Safety team members.
8. Other school leaders/designated personnel.
9. Teachers/staff members.

Topics:

1. Make yourself unbreakable by becoming stronger in the 7 Inner Strengths.
2. Determine the scope, direction, and length of your career by enhancing your self-worth.
3. Establish positive daily routines that maintain focus, simplicity, and progress.
4. Practice clarity and purpose to enhance safety, raise your credibility, and lower risk.
5. Develop a mindset of hope and compassion by guarding your gratitude.
6. Overcome pain, fear, trauma, and suffering with action, passion, and purpose.
7. Prevent negative and harmful thoughts by scripting your future responses today.
8. Understand authentic love and the 3 simple steps to enrich any relationship.
9. Reconnect, reenergize, and strengthen your most valuable relationships. The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships!
10. Set reasonable boundaries to balance work and personal life.
11. Prioritize self-care and enhance well-being by effectively balancing responsibilities.
12. Lower stress, anxiety, and resolve difficult conflicts and situations.
13. Incorporate gratitude into your daily routine to boost happiness.
14. Practice self-reflection to understand strengths and areas for improvement.
15. Model emotional well-being to uplift and inspire others—when you thrive they thrive!
16. Foster resilience by focusing on personal growth and improvement.
17. Navigate difficulties and uncertainties with calm, grace, and positivity.
18. Communicate effectively to foster trust, respect, support, and clarity.
19. Develop a growth mindset by accepting challenges and learning from failures.
20. Hold nothing back from yourself for the sake of yourself, your family, and school.
21. Enhance school safety by practicing and perfecting your personal E-SAT.

Request More Information:
Email info@donshomette.com or call 540-577-7200 to request a detailed proposal.

Project Details:

1. A selection of unique 1 day personalized coaching and consulting sessions.
2. Quick, implementable solutions for specific or severe safety concerns.
3. Expert driven assistance.
4. Practical violence prevention strategies.
5. Designed for individual schools, principals, and key leaders.

Project Overview:

Our 1 day sessions are for those who want to rapidly transform or enhance their ability to prevent violence. Whether you are searching for a solution to a specific safety concern or would like to improve a specific set of skills, we'll personally help you as well as provide a clear, practical roadmap you can immediately implement.

In a single day, you can vastly lower your vulnerability to violence and improve your safety, teacher engagement, culture, student involvement, ability to lockdown faster—everything!

Pick the session that fits your needs and improve your entire school in one day.

This is for principals who are new or relatively new to their position and want to master school safety!

With the threat facing schools, it’s not enough to be good. Principals must be great and this one day session will give new principals the understanding, foundation, perspective, and skills necessary to be a great violence prevention leader!

This one day session will consist of one-on-one training, coaching, and practical application inside your school.

Principals will learn how to…

1. Implement Safe & Loved.
2. Establish positive daily routines that maintain focus, simplicity, enhance safety, raise your credibility, and lower vulnerability.
3. Reshape the school environment (CPTED) to prevent dangerous behaviors.
4. Create depth of protection by easily multiplying and enhancing safety layers & filters.
5. Effectively utilize the E-SAT engagement method to improve safety, culture, and make students, teachers, and staff members safer and feel more loved.
6. Spot students on the Path to Violence (reading negative behaviors and trajectories, identifying indicators of impending violence, and commonalities in school attackers).
7. Identifying, reporting, and distinguishing dangerous from non-dangerous behavior.
8. Safely welcoming suspended or troubled students back.
9. Effectively implementing 4 Points of Contact during morning arrival to ensure the day has a great, welcoming, and warm start.
10. Speeding up and perfecting lockdowns.
11. Implementing the 7 Second Lockdown (can include Don Shomette leading drills).
12. Deescalating potential conflicts with the Open-Response Method.
13. Lower anxiety, fear, and risk with action, passion, and purpose.
14. Prioritize self-care and enhance well-being by effectively balancing responsibilities.
15. Communicate effectively to foster trust, respect, support, and clarity.

This is for principals who want to enhance their school’s safety and leadership effectiveness through collaborative problem-solving. This personalized consulting is tailored to your specific needs and is for school leaders who are facing challenges or have questions about creating a safer environment.

Together, we will create immediate solutions and address your pressing issues such as:

1. Implement Safe & Loved.
2. Threat assessment and intervention plans for specific student(s).
3. Welcoming back suspended and troubled student(s).
4. Troubling incidents or ongoing safety concerns.
5. Frequent school fights.
6. Low energy and engagement culture.
7. Arrival and dismissal issues.
8. Bathroom safety concerns.
9. Staff cliques and factions.
10. Enhancing lunchroom safety, procedures, and culture.
11. Unhappy and angry parents.
12. Repairing broken parent, staff, and student relationships.
13. Outdated and ineffective safety policies and procedures.
14. Visitor management.
15. Crisis communication—explaining recent events or safety issues to parents, staff members, the media, and school community.
16. Enhancing physical security.
17. Other issues, concerns, fears, and problems you’re facing!

This program is similar to the Safe & Loved for Teachers district professional development but is designed for a smaller, more individualized school audience.

It is for schools that want to improve, enhance, or achieve specific safety goals, skills, and capabilities but don’t have the ability to gather for large-scale, district-wide training sessions. Instead, Don Shomette will conduct multiple training sessions throughout the school day with small groups until every teacher and staff member is trained on the same topic.

Some of the possible choices for topics:

1. Blending proven, positive, and people focused violence prevention techniques into the school day, classroom, and student engagements (Safe & Loved).
2. Creating methods that make student engagements safer, more positive, more instructive, and more frequent.
3. Using the E-SAT engagement method to make students safer and feel more loved.
4. Spotting students on the Path to Violence (reading negative behaviors and trajectories, identifying indicators of impending violence, and commonalities in school attackers).
5. Identify, reporting, and distinguishing dangerous from non-dangerous behavior.
6. Safely welcoming suspended or troubled students back.
7. Effectively implementing 4 Points of Contact during morning arrival to ensure the day has a great, welcoming, and warm start.
8. Correcting troubling behaviors (5-10-15 method) through positive engagement.
9. Implementing the 3 actions (Act Fast) other teachers have used to survive violence.
10. Speeding up and perfecting lockdowns.
11. Implementing the 7 Second Lockdown (can include Don Shomette leading drills).
12. Loving the unlovable student.
13. Deescalating potential conflicts with the Open-Response Method.
14. Guarding your gratitude (the loss of gratitude is the first step towards burnout and how to protect yourself from it).
15. Establishing personal routines that make teachers safer, happier and more successful.
16. Identifying, responding, and reporting potential threats (office staff personnel).

Additional topics can be created, modified, or personalized to meet individual needs!

This course is for key leaders, counselors, and social workers that want to master student safety assessments (human threat assessments) as well as perfect intervention, management, and growth plans to help students not choose violence.

This course consists of instruction, practical applications, and one-on-one help in conducting student safety assessments as well as creating intervention and management plans.

Participants will have the ability to participate in additional online training opportunities consisting of the following:

1. Additional practical applications.
2. Group discussions.
3. Question and answer sessions.
4. In-depth case studies of previous school attacks.
5. Lessons learned from previous attacks/attackers.
6. Current events concerning acts of extreme violence as they transpire.

Participants will receive:

1. Paper and electronic copy of the Assess & Progress Program/Procedures.
2. Parent guide.
3. Path to Violence worksheet.
4. Search worksheets.
5. Student, parent, and witness worksheets and suggested questions.
6. Substantial Step Worksheet.
7. 5 page Master Worksheet.
8. Online access to download course materials, procedures, and additional resources.
9. Continued support in conducting student safety assessments and creating intervention and management plans.

Special Points:

One of the benefits to a 1-day training, inside your district, is that more key leaders and counselors are more likely to be able to attend the same training. It is critical that everyone receive the same training because when a threat is identified and a student safety assessment is initiated, everyone must be on the same sheet of music, using the same terminology, and moving quickly in the same direction.

This is for superintendents and school leaders who want to quickly and easily make sweeping enhancements across the entire district by implementing the 4 Key Strategies of Safe & Loved (E-SAT).

This is a fast-paced, focused, burst of energy that inspires leaders and leaves them with a clear understanding of the science of reshaping a school environment (E-SAT) to make schools safer, lower fear and anxiety, raise quality of life, and enhance credibility of school and district leadership.

The day consists of part instruction and part practical application and concludes with creating individualized Safe & Loved Leader Action Plans.

Our newest and most exciting initiative is speaking directly to students. It’s time to engage them, as they are ready and willing to take on a greater role in their own safety if we guide them!

Students will participate in a brief assembly that is fun, inspirational, motivational, and age-appropriate. They will learn about a holistic approach to safety that can enhance every aspect of their lives—inside and outside of school.

Whether it's a single assembly or multiple sessions tailored for different age groups, we can schedule these throughout the day to maximize engagement and impact.

Let's empower our students to be active participants in making themselves and their schools Safe & Loved!

Request More Information:
Email info@donshomette.com or call 540-577-7200 to request a detailed proposal about any of the 1 day programs.