DISTRICT 113A STUDENT SAFETY
Dear Parents:
Student safety is our District’s top priority. In addition to
physical safety, District 113A is concerned with students’
emotional well being and will help students cope with an emergency
or disaster and its aftermath. The following outlines our emergency
and disaster response plans.
Safety
Plans
District 113A has plans for all four phases of emergency
and disaster management:
1. Preparedness: Planning for an emergency or disaster event;
2. Response: Planned response to an emergency or disaster
event;
3. Recovery: The process of returning to normal operations; and
4. Mitigation: Steps taken to minimize the effects of an emergency
or disaster.
These phases are covered in our district’s Emergency Response Plan.
In addition to the general plan, each school has a Crisis
Management Team that is prepared to implement planned procedures in
the event of a crisis or disaster. The Emergency Response Plan is
reviewed periodically at the building level so that all staff
members are familiar with their roles and responsibilities during
an emergency situation.
Communications
The District 113A administrative team monitors the
Homeland Security Office and other emergency preparedness
resources. The District will disseminate emergency information via
its website, telephone system, through the media and by telephone
contact (Expedite and/or calling trees).
Emergency
Responses
Emergency responses will depend on the circumstances and
may include evacuation or lockdown. For evacuation purposes, each
school has several off-campus sites where students and staff
assemble to be accounted for and temporarily housed. If a threat is
chemical or biological in nature, to avoid contamination, we may
ask that no one enter or leave the building until safety officials
advise that it is safe to do so.
In the event that your child’s school is evacuated, the school will
attempt to notify you as soon as possible at home and/or through
emergency telephone numbers you provided on your child’s
registration form. The school will also notify news media, place
the information on the telephone system and post notices on the
school doors, when possible.
When parents arrive to an evacuation site to pick up their
children, they will be required to sign a check out list. While
some parents may wish to be helpful by picking up the children of
their neighbors and friends, in most cases, school personnel will
only release students to their own parents during an emergency
situation.
Cooperation and
Assistance Request
During any emergency or potential disaster, for the
safety of all students and staff, we request that you follow the
instructions of the Building Principal and other District 113A
administrators who may be on site to offer assistance. Instructions
will be posted and widely disseminated as situations allow.
Defamatory or disruptive actions on the part of parents and/or
other family members will only lessen our ability to respond
effectively to an emergency situation. It is imperative that
parents follow the specific directions of safety agency officials
who may be directing traffic or routing parents to a specific
pick-up location. The safety of ALL of District 113A’s students
depends upon your cooperation with law enforcement, school and
safety officials.
We can better ensure safe and secure school sites for District 113A
students and staff with you as our partners. The Building
Principals will share more information related to several emergency
situations (e.g., fire, tornado, evacuation) in their newsletters
throughout the year. If you have any questions about our district’s
safety plans, please feel free to contact your child’s principal or
the district office at 630-257-2286, extension 4617. Thank you for
your cooperation and support.
Yours in education,
Tim Ricker, Ed.D.
Superintendent
District Website: www.sd113a.org
Telephone Hotline: 630-257-2286, press “7”
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