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Managing school safety and student wellbeing requires an ecosystem of tools and processes, but coordinating those elements—and updating them to reflect the latest best practices—is challenging. For David Wrzesinski, the Director of Safe Schools at Robinson ISD (RISD), Raptor’s ecosystem of school safety technologies is key to help manage his district’s safety needs, from safety drills to emergency communication.
Before partnering with Raptor, Wrzesinski analyzed their existing safety plan to determine where they most needed support. Here’s what he found:
Managing safety
While the district had an operations plan they reviewed triennially and conducted fire drills, there was room for improvement. The operations plan was made available in a notebook—but it was a tool easily forgotten in the stress of a real emergency. Wrzesinski wanted them to have a more accessible and manageable plan in place.
Multiple, spread-out processes
With a separate app for each piece of their safety plan, their emergency management process had become complicated and unwieldy—a serious concern in the chaos of an emergency. Streamlining those processes was key to making their school safety and security plan as efficient as possible.
Communication
Alerting and communicating with staff during emergencies was a concern—adding another means to notify staff and, importantly, empowering them to call for help was critical.
“Raptor accomplished the thing that’s most difficult, and that’s getting all the student information and teacher information into their app and pulling that out without a whole lot of effort on the school’s part. I praise Raptor because of the ease of integration and the ease of management that one person can do.” David Wrzesinski, Director of Safe Schools at Robinson ISD
Emergency Management
Raptor Emergency Management connects with hard-wired, wireless, and cellular networks and uses the same interface for both drills and real emergencies—helping staff build muscle memory and confidence in their ability to respond effectively during an emergency. Through Drill Manager, you can:
Consolidating safety processes
Raptor Connect gives schools the power to initiate multiple emergency response mechanisms from a single point—putting all of RISD’s safety tools in one place.
This capability reduces the number of individual digital activations required during an emergency. Raptor Connect streamlines a school’s digital emergency response activations, speeding notifications and minimizing the impact of the situation. Our ecosystem of partners covers a wide range of peripherals helping schools take full advantage of their digital emergency response technologies.
Communication support
Raptor Emergency Management includes Raptor Alert, which expedites calling 911 for help—and because Raptor integrates with 911, the caller’s precise location, type of emergency, and callback number is automatically shared with dispatchers. Raptor Alert supports standard E911 services, is RapidSOS Ready, and is fully compatible with all standard Public Safety Answering Points and emergency calling infrastructure.
Using the group chat feature—which includes a general channel and an administrator channel—in Raptor Alert, RISD staff can also readily communicate details about the emergency internally.
Team Assist
Raptor Team Assist utilizes a chat feature in the same manner as Raptor Alert, so staff can call for help when they encounter emergencies requiring a local response, such as a medical situation, a fight in the hallway, or an injured student on the playground. Team Assist provides configurable alert types for localized incidents as well as their own distribution lists. For example, for an injured student on the playground, a distribution list would likely include the school nurse.
Meeting your unique needs
“They evolve. It’s one of the reasons I really like the product. They take recommendations and they generate them; they go in and code them and then they make them better.” David Wrzesinski, Director of Safe Schools at Robinson ISD.
When you partner with Raptor, our teams discuss your district’s priorities, roles and responsibilities, and timeline goals. This consultation forms the basis for configuring your Raptor system to your specific needs—and we work hard to continually grow our ecosystem of connected safety partners.
This means if you have a technology provider you’d like to see Raptor partner with, we are happy to evaluate your request.
Robinson ISD
Robinson, Texas
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