School Safety

Build In Layers of Security

School Safety

School Safety

Build In Layers of Security

Protect students, staff and campus visitors in your K–12 school district with a layered approach to safety and security. From mental well-being to access control and surveillance, schools must look at the big picture. Check out use cases, tips and physical security tools in the articles below, and click the link to explore solutions for your schools today.

Create a Secure Learning Environment

Keep Your School Safe

Explore the technologies and solutions that protect K–12 buildings and grounds.

Keep schools safe with layered protection that starts at the perimeter of your property. Learn more about layered security >

Modern cameras bring advanced physical security capabilities to schools. Take safety processes from reactive to proactive. Bring school safety into focus >

Visitor management solutions and door access controls ensure you know who's in your buildings. Open the door to new solutions >

Drone can be part of a comprehensive safety plan. Some K–12 schools are using them to monitor campuses and events. Get a bird's-eye view >

K–12 Physical Security

Elementary students walking on school campus

Cybersecurity and Physical Security Assessments Protect Schools

Student learning in class

Keeping Girls in STEM: Mental Wellness and Achievement Gap Disparities Grow

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Don’t Overlook School Safety This Summer

Person using secure device

K–12 Schools Deploy Smarter Security Solutions

Craig Johnson and Andrew Speese

Physical Security in Schools Requires a Holistic Strategy

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A Unified System Streamlines Emergency Alerts in K–12 Schools

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Overseeing Physical Security as an IT Professional

Don Hough

Q&A: CISA Safety Expert Dissects the Connections Between K–12 Physical Security and Cybersecurity

Student using tablet

What K–12 Leaders Need to Know About KOSA (Again)

Surveillance CCTV outside an office building

AI-Backed Physical Security Tools Improve School Safety

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E911 vs. NG911: What Schools Need To Know

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Three New Technologies Enhance Mobile Response Units in Missouri

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Making Space for Community and Student Well-Being

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A Toolkit for Holistic Physical Security in School Buildings

Student using laptop in the classroom

Cyberbullying and the Technology To Stop, Prevent and Combat It in Schools

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Visitor Management Systems: How Access Control Makes K–12 Schools Safer

Kacey Sensenich

FETC 2025: Make School Safety Improvements From the Outside In

Leadership team at Mt. Diablo USD

Camera Upgrades Bring Physical Safety into Focus at Mt. Diablo

John McDonald inside mobile response unit

Q&A: Missouri Equips Mobile Incident Command Centers for School Safety

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Overcoming Challenges Upgrading Cameras in Old and Historic School Buildings

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What Is the Incident Command System, and How Does Technology Support It?

Manuel Zamudio

K–12 Leaders Find Technology Helps Speed Physical Security Responses for All

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Technology-Powered Mental Health Initiatives Save Students’ Lives

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