MCCPTA Standing Committees Web Pages:

• Bylaws
• Capital Improvement Program Budget
• Communications
• Cultural Arts
• Curriculum
• Down County Consortium
• Finance
• Gifted Child
• Grading and Reporting
• Guidance and Counseling
• Health
• High School
• Legislative
• Membership
• Middle School
• Nominating
• Operating Budget
• Parent Involvement
• Presidents/Principals Dinner
• Reflections
• Safety
• Special Education
• Special Events
• Technology
• Training

List of MCCPTA Standing Committees

MCCPTA Safety Committee Meetings for 2008-2009

If you are passionately interested in improving any of the following safety concerns, please put your energy into action as we meet to evaluate safety concerns and work with MCPS and other community leaders to advocate for our children:

• not enough supervision on the playground
• safety and security on school grounds
• traffic issues affecting student safety
• gang or bullying problems
• drug and alcohol use
• poor condition of school buildings and portables / air quality in your school and portables
• emergency preparedness concerns.

We will have the following MCCPTA Safety Committee meetings at Carver Educational Building at 850 Hungerford Drive, Rockville:

• Monday, September 22 at 7:00 pm (room 127)
• Monday, October 20 at 7:00 pm (room 223)
• Monday, November 17 at 7:00 pm (room 223)
• Thursday, December 18 at 12:30 pm (room 127)
• Wednesday, January 7 at 7:00 pm (room 127)
• Monday, February 9 at 7:00 pm (room 223)
• Monday, March 23 at 7:00 pm (room 127)
• Monday, April 20 at 7:00 pm (room 223)
• Monday, May 11 at 7:00 pm (room 127)

Note: There is plenty of parking available. Please enter at the side entrance close to the Board of Ed parking spaces (the same entrance near the BOE board room and MCCPTA Delegates room.)

Contact

Please contact the safety committee with any questions or concerns.  Also, please consider setting up your own safety committee and/or designating a liaison to the MCCPTA Safety Committee.

Laurie Halverson
Chair, MCCPTA Safety Committee
Email Laurie

MCCPTA Safety Committee Reports / Workplan

2008 - 2009

• Committee Report,, May 2009
• Committee Report, March 2009
• Committee Report, February 2009
• Committee Report, January 2009
• Committee Report, December 2008
• Summary, MCCPTA Meeting with MCPS Department of Safety and Security Leaders, December 5, 2008
• Committee Report, November 2008
• Committee Report, October 2008
• Committee Report, September 2008
• Committee Report, August 2008
• Committee Workplan 2008-2009

2007 - 2008

• Committee Report, October 2007
• Committee Report, August 2007
• Committee Workplan 2007-2008

2006 - 2007

• May 2007
• April 2007
• March 2007
• February 2007
• December 2006
• November 2006
• October 2006 (Topics: School security, Bus safety, Mold and indoor air quality, Sex offender screening)
• Safety Committee Workplan 2006 - 2007
• To view committee reports not listed here, go to MCCPTA Newsletters Archive

MCCPTA Resolutions

See the MCCPTA Resolutions page for a resolution on improving building and portable security passed by the Delegates' Assembly January 23, 2007.

Newsletters

• SAFEnet, April 2007, Volume 1, Issue 13

Traffic

• Traffic Control Devices.  What are they and how do we decide where they go?
• Click the following to learn about:
  • Md. Kids in Safety Seats (KISS) Flyer
  • Maryland's Child Safety Seat Law
  • Does your child need a booster seat? The 5-Step Test
• Parent involvement in novice teen driving: a review of the literature
• The Checkpoints Parent-Teen Driving Agreement

From MCPS

• Improved Access to Schools (IAS), CIP Project #975051, March 28, 2007
• MCPS Response to Security Resolution
• Security Protocols
• Memo to All Principals on Pedestrian Safety DVD, September 19, 2008

School Safety Information

Basic Facts on MCPS security policy and procedures, October, 2006

MCPS Definition of Bullying

At the October 2005 Delegates' Assembly, Director of Safety and Security Ed Clarke distributed a form for reporting incidents of bullying. This form was provided by the State of MD, and it includes a definition of bullying that deems only incidents that appear to be motivated by some type of bias (e.g., racial, ethnic, special education) as "bullying." Some have questioned this on the listserve, as they are familiar with situations that they would deem as "bullying" that would not fall into under these categories.  For purposes of complying with required state reporting, MCPS is using the definition on the form.  However, for purposes of identifying and dealing with bullying going on in a school, MCPS uses a different, broader definition.

Teen Safety

• "Adults Who Host Lose the Most" brochure
• Parent Liability and Teen Drinking
• Parent involvement in novice teen driving: a review of the literature
• The Checkpoints Parent-Teen Driving Agreement
• Teen Driving: Presentation  from Montgomery County Police Department available online - view the PowerPoint presentation and crash videos from the Delegate Assembly, January 25, 2005

Bus Safety

• MCPS Ride by the Rules Bus Safety program, August, 2005

Lead in School Drinking Water

• Lead Controls - How To Get Your Fountains and Faucets Turned Back On
• Further Explanation of the Lead in Water Issue (October, 2004)
• More School Results Released (November, 2004)
• More School Results Released (December, 2004)
• More School Action Information Released (June, 2005)
• MCPS Lead Safeguards website

Emergency Preparedness

• MCPS information on emergency preparedness

Two guides for parents may be helpful during times of crisis:

• Trauma and Children: What Can We Do? and
• Children living with fear: Recognizing and healing the trauma

(both in Adobe Acrobat format). They were developed by Linda Goldman, the author of many books and articles about children and grief including, "Breaking The Silence" and "Life And Loss." Ms. Goldman is a Montgomery County Parent and trainer. Her articles are reprinted here with her permission.