Fox Chapel Area School Board member Eric Schmidt reviewed a Raptor manual with
Joe Kozarian, the district’s school safety and security coordinator.
SECURITY UPGRADES CONTINUE AT FCASD
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Ruvna
he Ruvna crisis
communication tool is now
in place in the Fox Chapel
Area School District.
A replacement for paper and clipboard
rosters, Ruvna allows teachers to
account for students in the event of
a drill or actual emergency, facilitates
faculty interaction, and dispatches
help immediately to students or staff
members who require assistance. It
also provides messaging capability and
allows faculty and staff members to
access resources such as the district’s
safety plan and floor plans of the
district’s buildings. Ruvna works in
conjunction with Fox Chapel Area’s
student information system to enable
staff members to account for each and
every student.
“We’re grateful that with $25,000 in
grant support from the Pennsylvania
Commission on Crime and
Delinquency, we were able to purchase
Ruvna to help us more easily ensure the
safety of Fox Chapel Area students and
staff during drills and emergencies,”
said Megan Collett, Ed.D., the district’s
executive director of instructional
and innovative leadership. “From
a technology perspective, the app
allows seamless communication within
our administration, faculty, and local
law enforcement agencies.”
SAFETY
CONFERENCE
The Fox Chapel Area School
District will host a daylong safety
conference on August 15, 2019.
The speaker will be Lt. Col. Dave
Grossman, who will present a talk
titled “Safe Schools and Healthy
Students.” Grossman is one of
the nation’s leading trainers for
military, law enforcement, mental
health providers, and school safety
organizations. He is a former U.S.
Army ranger and taught psychology
at West Point. For more information
on the event, please visit the
district’s website at www.fcasd.edu.
Raptor
The Raptor Visitor Management
system continues to be in place at all six
buildings in the district.
In addition to offering instant sex
offender screenings, checking school
visitors against databases for custody
alerts and banned visitors, and keeping
accurate records for every visitor who
enters a school, the district’s clearances
for volunteers now are being run
through the Raptor system.
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FOX CHAPEL AREA
According to Joe Kozarian, school
safety and security coordinator, nearly
3,700 visitors and volunteers have
been scanned through the district’s
Raptor system since January 2, 2019.
Additionally, Fox Chapel Area school
volunteers registered more than 1,600
hours during the month of February.