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Welcome to: The First 30 Days - SRO and School Administrators. The First 30 Days of the School Year. 1. Review the agency/school district agreement. - sample contract on NASRO’s website - what are the hours, job duties, etc? - officer procedural issues
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Welcome to: The First 30 Days - SRO and School Administrators
The First 30 Days of the School Year • 1. Review the agency/school district agreement. • - sample contract on NASRO’s website • - what are the hours, job duties, etc? • - officer procedural issues • - Overtime, flex schedule, off duty, etc.
The First 30 Days of the School Year • Meeting with the building administration: • 1. Expectations • 2. Review contract, discuss details • 3. Communication lines • 4. School/law overlap • 5. Assisting with students
Strategies for immersing yourself into the school community • Attend the enrollment or fee payment sessions. • Introduce yourself and participate in new student orientation programs. • Attend the back to school teacher in-service days, participate when possible. • Attend and participate in beginning of the year assemblies and programs.
Strategies for immersing yourself into the school community • Meet weekly with the building administration. • Attend monthly faculty meetings and present whenever possible. • Help plan, critique, and implement the building crisis plan. • Update the faculty, via email, about safety issues in the building and community.
Strategies for immersing yourself into the school community • Attend dances, football games, and other major school functions. • Visit all first year student classrooms (9th or 10th grade in HS or 6th or 7th grade in MS or JRHS). • Write articles for the school newsletter to communicate with the entire community. • Attend back to school night.
Strategies for immersing yourself into the school community • Attend a PTA/PTO meeting • Offer class time/presentations to the faculty • Ask an administrator to watch one of your classroom presentations. • Put your stamp on one program and do it well (anti-drug, safe driving, alcohol awareness, anti-bullying, etc.)
Strategies for immersing yourself into the school community. • Be the most visible person in your building (lunchroom, hallways, parking lot, stairwells, classrooms, commons, etc.) • Meet regularly with other SRO’s. • Continue to grow professionally through seminars, conferences, conventions, professional reading, and research.
References • McMullun, Jim. 2006. Principal, Frontier Trail Junior High School- Olathe, Kansas