CRISIS TYPES & LEVELS
The School is committed to maintaining a safe, healthy, and supportive environment across all online and hybrid settings. Safety policies are designed to protect students, staff, and families; prevent incidents; prepare staff through training and drills; ensure rapid and organized crisis response; comply with state and local regulations; meet insurance requirements; and support mental and emotional well-being. This policy applies to all School-operated hybrid centers and relevant digital safety contexts.
Crisis Types
The School recognizes the following crisis types, which may occur in hybrid centers and/or online environments:
- Medical emergencies
- Fire or explosion
- Severe weather (e.g., tornadoes, severe storms)
- Intruder, active shooter, or violent threat
- Cybersecurity breach or technology system compromise
- Online threat or harassment (including cyberbullying and credible threats)
- Missing student (hybrid setting)
- Transportation incident (if applicable)
- Facility hazard (e.g., unsafe conditions, severe property damage)
Crisis Levels (Response Escalation)
Crisis response is scaled based on severity and risk:
- Level 1 — Managed Incident:
- Localized concern managed by staff using established procedures (e.g., minor injury, minor online disruption) with documentation and parent notification as appropriate.
- Level 2 — Elevated Incident:
- Requires administrative involvement and/or targeted safety measures (e.g., repeated safety non-compliance, significant behavioral safety concern, online harassment requiring documentation and support follow-up).
- Level 3 — Emergency Incident:
- Requires Crisis Response Team (CRT) activation and may require emergency services or law enforcement (e.g., fire, credible threats, severe injury, missing student, active intruder, suspected abuse/neglect, imminent self-harm risk).