Events

School Behavioral Threat Assessment Trainings

Virtual Fall 2024 - Spring 2025

Threat Assessment provides a proactive, evidence-based approach for identifying individuals who may pose a threat and providing interventions before a violent incident occurs. With the passage of Senate Bill 11, Texas public school districts and open-enrollment charter schools are mandated to establish a threat assessment team to serve at each campus, and each team is required to complete training provided by the TxSSC or a Regional Education Service Center.

Operationalizing School Behavioral Threat Assessment Technical Assistance

Virtual Fall 2024

The Texas School Safety Center is offering technical assistance sessions to answer questions related to implementation of SBTA processes and specific district needs. Districts will receive an action plan based on the outcomes of the technical assistance session. The action plan will support threat assessment teams in improving their threat assessment programming.

Intermediate School Behavioral Threat Assessment Manual Training

NEW! Virtual In-Person Fall 2024 - Spring 2025

This full-day work session is geared towards district staff responsible for ensuring the operationalizing of school behavioral threat assessment programming within their district. Participants will review the newly created TxSSC model SBTA Manual. The review will include an examination of TxSSC created templates and completed exemplars. Each session module will provide many opportunities for group discussion about your current SBTA practices, and planning time to map what system and process improvements you will engage in when you return to your district.

Mitigating Educator Maltreatment Trainings

NEW! Virtual Spring 2025

This comprehensive training will equip administrators with the knowledge, skills, and tools to create and maintain a safe, supportive, and nurturing learning environment for all staff and students. By delving into real-world scenarios and examining TxSSC developed exemplars, participants will explore effective prevention and intervention strategies to address educator maltreatment, which can be defined by incidents of verbal attacks, threats, harassment, and physical aggression. The training will also explore strategies for supporting educators who have experienced maltreatment and processes for returning students to the learning environment. Upon completion, administrators will be equipped to play a crucial role in safeguarding all stakeholders and fostering healthy, positive learning and working environments.

Staying Safe: School Safety Response Train-The-Trainer

In-Person Fall 2024 - Spring 2025

The Texas School Safety Center is proud to offer a new curriculum developed in partnership with Safe and Sound Schools and Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) that teaches students and staff their very own age and ability options to school safety during an active event. Based upon Safe and Sound Schools' curriculum and ALERRT's Civilian Response to Active Shooter Events (CRASE), this curriculum will be offered as a six-hour train-the-trainer session for all regional Education Service Centers (ESC).

Standard Response Protocol Train-The-Trainer

Virtual Fall 2024 - Spring 2025

The Texas School Safety Center, in collaboration with the I Love U Guys Foundation, is hosting a no cost, 4-hour, train-the-trainer version of the Standard Response Protocol training. A uniform, planned, and practiced response to any incident is the foundation of a safe school. The Standard Response Protocol is action-based, flexible, and rationally organizes tactics to respond to events, accidents, intruders, and other threats to safety. SRP’s tactics are data-driven, researched, and based on experience and contemporary practices. This training also covers mandated drills for Texas schools.

Standard Reunification Method Train-The-Trainer

Virtual Fall 2024 - Spring 2025

The Texas School Safety Center, in collaboration with the I Love U Guys Foundation, is hosting a no cost, 4-hour, train-the-trainer version of the Standard Reunification Method training. One critical aspect of crisis response is accountable reunification of students with their parents or guardians in the event of a school emergency. The Standard Reunification Method provides school and district safety teams with proven methods for planning, practicing, and achieving a successful reunification.

Bullying and Cyberbullying Training

Virtual Fall 2024 - Spring 2025

This virtual training will walk participants through all Texas bullying and cyberbullying laws, including behaviors that may apply to suspected bullying situations, such as assault, harassment, hazing, stalking, sextortion, dating violence, and related federal laws.

Digital Threat Assessment Trainings

Virtual Fall 2024 - Spring 2025

Digital Threat Assessment was developed to address the need to keep pace with the ever-evolving technology challenges that face our students currently. Successful Violence Threat Risk Assessment requires a have a solid understanding of all data needed to appropriately assess an individuals’ potential for violence. An overall assessment of risk cannot be determined without looking at social media and online activity. It is imperative to understand the tools and methods available to identify online threat related behavior.

Cybersecurity Tabletop Exercise

NEW! In-Person Spring 2025

This 4-hour tabletop exercise is a collaborative opportunity to pressure test your district’s current Cybersecurity Annex under the guidance of cybersecurity experts from the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). By the end of this exercise, you will gain insight into the strengths and areas of improvement of your Cybersecurity Annex, enabling you to make informed updates.

Especially Safe Trainings

Virtual Spring 2025

The Texas School Safety Center, in partnership with Safe and Sound Schools is hosting Especially Safe: An Inclusive Approach to Safety Preparedness in Education Settings virtual trainings. Through inclusive planning, we can create a culture of safety and security for our children, students, parents, and staff to depend on in emergencies of all kinds.

Restorative Practices for Educators

In-Person Fall 2024 - Summer 2025

Restorative Practices helps us to build healthy relationships by identifying core values and establishing consensus around how we relate to one another. Restorative Practices provides a process for effective communication, establishing healthy boundaries, taking responsibility, solving conflict, healing when harm has occurred, and creating accountability for self and others.

Trauma-Informed Care Workshop for Educators - Elementary

Virtual Fall 2024 - Spring 2025

The Trauma-Informed Care Workshop for Educators focuses on providing an overview of trauma, and its impact on student behaviors in the elementary (K-5) classroom. Attendees will learn about the role of mental health in daily functioning, how trauma impacts the brain, the importance of unrecognized executive function deficits, and the role neuro diverse complexities play in student behavior.

Trauma-Informed Care Workshop for Educators - Secondary

Virtual Fall 2024 - Spring 2025

The Trauma-Informed Care Workshop for Educators focuses on providing an overview of trauma, and its impact on student behaviors in the secondary (6-12) classroom. Attendees will learn about the role of mental health in daily functioning, how trauma impacts the brain, the importance of unrecognized executive function deficits, and the role neuro diverse complexities play in student behavior.

Sandy Hook Promise - Start with Hello Trainings

Virtual Fall 2024 - Spring 2025

Start with Hello, one of Sandy Hook Promise's no-cost Know the Signs programs, teaches students to be more socially inclusive and connected to each other. With activities and curricula available for all ages, students are empowered to end social isolation in three easy steps which include: see someone alone, reach out and help, and start with hello.

Sandy Hook Promise - Say Something Trainings

Virtual Fall 2024 - Spring 2025

Say Something is a no-cost, easy-to-implement, and life-saving program that will help school personnel and/or school-based law enforcement to teach students how to recognize warning signs of potential violence or self-harm and act immediately to intervene.

School-Based Law Enforcement Trainings

Virtual In-Person Fall 2024 - Summer 2025 

The Texas School Safety Center offers a variety of no-cost TCOLE accredited school-based law enforcement trainings that will educate the SBLE officer/and or school personnel on effective strategies when working with school and community partners. Currently we are offering the following trainings: TCOLE #3737 SBLE New Supervisor's Course, TCOLE #4064, TCOLE #41501 Introductory Training, TCOLE #41502 Intermediary Training, TCOLE #41504 Advanced Training, TCOLE #41505 Master Training.

Beyond Burnout: Exploring the Cost of Caring Lunch and Learn

Virtual Fall 2024 - Spring 2025

During the Beyond Burnout Lunch and Learn event, participants will be provided tools to decrease risk for compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, secondary traumatic stress, and burn-out. Discussion will then focus on enhancing compassion satisfaction and resilience through individualized strategies. This presentation seeks to reframe the way we think about self-care and will include a live Q&A with The Trauma and Grief Center at The Hackett Center for Mental Health.

Advanced Digital Threat Assessment Trainings

Virtual Fall 2024 - Spring 2025

The Advanced Digital Threat Assessment Training will build and expand significantly on the skills gained in the Basic Digital Threat Assessment training. Participants will leave with a concrete understanding of how to find and curate relevant digital information as is typically represented in a real-life digital threat assessment data gathering scenario. Major engagement and hands-on practice will take place as participants are assembled into investigative teams and given mock real-life scenarios. The Texas School Safety Center requests that participants register for this training after receiving their certificate of participation for the 7-hour Digital Threat Assessment course.

Advanced School Behavioral Threat Assessment Trainings

Virtual Fall 2024 - Spring 2025

The Advanced School Behavioral Threat Assessment Training leads participants through multiple scenarios on different fact patterns, providing participants the opportunity to handle threat cases from start to finish, iron out their roles and responsibilities, and hone their procedures and decision-making, all with continuous trainer feedback. In addition to multiple scenarios this training also includes common problems and solutions in implementing school threat assessment programs. The Texas School Safety Center requests that participants register for this training after receiving their certificate of participation for the 7-hour School Behavioral Threat Assessment course.

Texas School Safety Conference

In-Person June 22 - 26, 2025

The Texas School Safety Conference will provide a unique and exceptional platform for educators, administrators, school-based law enforcement, and school safety professionals to collaborate and work together towards creating and fostering a safe and secure learning environment.

Say What! Action Summits

Virtual

Summits are led by the Say What! Teen Ambassadors who discuss a variety of tobacco and vaping prevention topics, including vaping and teen mental health, teen addiction, nicotine vapes vs. THC vapes, harmful health effects of all tobacco products, targeted marketing from the tobacco industry, and more. Summits are free and are designed for middle and high school students.

Texas Say What! Conference

In-Person July 20-22, 2025

The Say What! Texas Tobacco-Free Conference is a youth-oriented event focused on tobacco prevention awareness, education, and advocacy. Youth groups who attend gain the knowledge and skills necessary to successfully carry out innovative strategies centered on tobacco prevention and youth leadership.

On our YouTube Channel you can view all of our past recorded webinars at: TxSSC Webinar Archive, or watch some of our past event videos at: TxSSC Event Videos.