The Pella Community School District is developing ways to make their campus safer by the fall of 2019 with new initiatives starting this coming academic year.
Superintendent Greg Ebeling says they are updating safety procedures in response to legislation from this past session to help make schools safer.
“We’re planning on having some new protocols in place,” he says. “Some of those will involve lock down drills and some of those will involve how we intake guests into the building — how we handle checking people that are coming into the building–checking our procedures for that, and then ultimately using some additional technology to make sure our buildings are secure.”
Ebeling says their goal of a more protected learning space has been helped by new safe entrances installed at all buildings during the district wide construction and renovation projects over the last five years. Hear more about ongoing summer projects in the Pella School District on today’s Let’s Talk Pella.