Built on published guidance, written in plain language
We do not invent safety doctrine. Every protocol, training lesson, and triage step in ProtectED is built from the public guidance below and rewritten so a teacher can act on it without a glossary.
CISA K-12 School Security Guide
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s guide and assessment tool inform our site assessment questions and the physical security sections of your protocols.
REMS TA Center (US Department of Education)
The Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools guidance shapes the structure of your emergency operations plan, including functional annexes and reunification.
US Secret Service NTAC
National Threat Assessment Center research on preventing targeted school violence underlies our concern-reporting triage guidance and the behavioral indicators in staff training.
FEMA Incident Command System
ICS principles define the roles in your alert and reunification plans so that a school’s response lines up with how first responders operate.
NFPA 3000 and NFPA 101
Your protocols reference the NFPA standard for active shooter and hostile event response and the Life Safety Code for drill frequency and egress, by name. We do not reproduce NFPA text.
Your state’s requirements
Drill frequency, reporting expectations, and any state-specific plan requirements are applied to your calendar at signup based on your school’s state.
What we do not claim
ProtectED is not a certification body, an accreditor, a law firm, or an emergency service. Your school owns its plan and approves every protocol before it is in effect. Our role is to make a strong plan easy to build, easy to keep current, and easy to prove.
Guidance changes. When one of the sources above publishes an update that affects your protocols, ProtectED flags the change in your Monday digest and proposes the edit for you to approve.