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Safety Website Overview
The Board of Education of Marlboro Central School District is committed to providing a safe and orderly school environment where students may receive and district personnel may deliver quality educational services without disruption or interference. The intent of this website is to provide a comprehensive collection of safety topics, training and awareness materials, an additional information to assure that each employee understands their role in keeping our students and ourselves, safe.
Each year, every employee must complete a certification waiver which serves to assure the Superintendent that each employee is aware of these topics, procedures and points of contact. Below and in alphabetical order, each topic is listed and accompanied by a description, training media, school contact and related resources.
2020-21 Employee Compliance Certification (Due for All employees by 9/15/20)
Please view the Compliance video. The video covers many of the topics listed below. Once the topics below are reviewed and understood, please proceed to the Employee Certification page and follow the steps to complete your reporting obligation.
2021 Compliance Video - Click here to view
Print the compliance contact form for your records.
Alcohol - Substance Abuse
The Marlboro Board of Education is committed to the prevention of alcohol, tobacco, and other substance use and abuse. This policy describes the philosophy of the District and the program elements the District will use to promote wellness for its students and staff and to inhibit the use and abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and other substances..
Training media: Policy 6150, Alchohol, Drugs, and Other Substances, Compliance Training Video
School Contact: Building Principal or Assistant Superintendent
Related Resources: MCSD Board of Education Policies
Bloodborne Pathogens
OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens standard were designed to protect workers. In effect since 1992 the goal was to prevent occupational transmission of diseases potentially present in blood and bodily fluids.
Training media: Compliance Training Video
School Contact: Facilities Director, Director of Business & Finance
Related Resources: OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens
Child Abuse in the School - Mandatory Reporting
The Marlboro Central School District subscribes to all of the provisions of Title 6 - Child Protective Services of the Social Services Law (Sections 411-428). Our purpose is to provide protective services to abused and maltreated children as described by the law, and to make all school personnel within the District aware of our legal responsibilities under this law: a) Mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse/neglect directly to the Building Principal and/or proper authorities.
Training media: New York State Mandatory Reporter Guidelines, Compliance Training Video
School Contact: Building Principal or any other administrator
Related resources: NYS Office of Children and Family Services
Codes of Conduct
The District has developed and will amend, as appropriate, a written Code of Conduct for the Maintenance of Order on School Property, including school functions, which shall govern the conduct of students, teachers and other school personnel, as well as visitors and/or vendors. The Board of Education shall further provide for the enforcement of such Code of Conduct.
Training media: Policy 3410, Code of Conduct on School Property.
School Contact: Building Principal or other direct supervisor
Related Resources: MCSD Board of Education Policies
COVID19 - Return to Learn Required Training
The following segment has been developed to guide educators and staff on the required training portions of the Return to Learn Plan. The information is organized in a manner that is consistent with Marlboro's Return to Learn Plan. Please click the link below to proceed to the training site.
Training media: Return to Learn Required Training website
School Contact: Building Principal or Assistant Superintendents; M. Bakatsias & R. Mele
Related Resources for Classrooms: MCSD Return to Learn Plan
Dignity for All Students Act
The Marlboro Central School District is committed to providing an environment free from harassment, bullying, cyberbullying and/or discrimination against any student by employees or students that creates a hostile school environment based on a person's actual or perceived race, color, weight, national origin, ethnic group, religion, religious practice, disability, sexual orientation, gender or sex.
Click here more information on your school's DASA coordinator and how to report a concern or incident. If you have any other questions, please contact your school Principal.
Training media: Compliance Training Video
School Contact: Building Principal, Assistant Superintendent
Related resources: DASA ppt, OU BOCES ppt, NYSED/DASA
Education Law 2D - Data Privacy & Security
The Board of Regents adopted Part 121 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education on January 13, 2020. These rules implemented Education Law Section 2-d and provide guidance to educational agencies and their third-party contractors on ways to strengthen data privacy and security to protect student data and annual professional performance review data. The regulation went into effect January 29, 2020.
Training media: Ed Law 2d Video Part 1, Ed Law 2d Video Part 2, Educator's Guide to Data Safety, Parent Bill of Rights, Data Privacy Complaint Form, Third Party Addendum - Student Data Privacy
School Contact: District Data Protection Officer, Director of Curriculum & Instruction
Related Policies: MCSD Board of Education Policies; Policy 7240 - FERPA; 5672 - Information Security Breach and Notification; 5673 - Employee Personal Identifying Information; 7243 - Student Data Breaches
Related Resources: Data Security Flyer, Data Protection Poster
Equal Opportunity - Title IX
The Marlboro Central School District is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment in its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age or any other basis prohibited by stae or federal non-discrimination laws.
Training media: Policy 6120, Equal Employment Opportunity
School Contact: Assistant Superintendent, Director of Curriculum & Instruction
Related Resources: MCSD Board of Education Policies;
Facility
The Marlboro Central School District installs and maintains high-tech safety and surveillance equipment. Each school building is locked throughout the day, access to the building is managed through access control technology which allows staff to view and interact with a visitor to the school prior to entry. Visitors are then received by school monitors for sign in procedures and to address needs. In addition, each school maintains a fleet of security cameras that allow for electronic surveillance of outside areas, hallways and stairwells. These systems work together to provide an additional layer of safety and security for students and staff.
Handbook - Teacher / Faculty
The Marlboro Central School District provides a "Teacher Handbook" that outlines a variety of professional and general school responsibilities for teachers and professional faculty.
Training media: MCSD Teacher Handbook
School Contact: School Principal
Harassment - Sexual
The Marlboro Central School District does not discriminate on the basis of sex in its educational programs or the activities which it operates. Sexual harassment of employees and students is illegal and the district will strive to safeguard the rights of all employees and students within the district and to provide an environment that is free from sexual harassment. This policy relates to sexual harassment including that contemplated by Title VII and IX of the US Code.
Training media: Compliance Training Video; Harassment Complaint Form
School Contact: Assistant Superintendent, Director of Curriculum & Instruction
Related Resources: Policy 6121, Sexual Harassment, Policy 3420 Nondiscrimination/Anti-Harassment
Homeless Students (McKinney-Vento)
Important changes related to McKinney-Vento were included in the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 (ESSA). The changes went into effect October 1, 2016, and include: expanded transportation protections until the end of the school year for temporarily housed students who move into permanent housing.
Training media: US Department of Housing Fact Sheet
School Contact: Principal, Director of Curriculum & Instruction
Related Resources: McKinney-Vento 101
Internet, Use of Computerized Resources & Online Safety
As the roles of students, parents, schools, and districts evolve in response to technological change, so does the potential of educational technology to support new forms of communication, collaboration, and learning. The Internet and other collaboration tools are essential to education, future careers, and lives, yet ways of socializing and communicating on the Internet come with certain risks. Each employee with a school account is required to complete the "Acceptable Use Policy for Computerized Equipment" at the beginning of each year. While the school, by law (CIPA) must maintain certain safety programs and protocols required, it is also essential that employees behave appropriately online and use services and equipment for educational purposes.
Training media: Compliance Training Video
School Contact: Assistant Superintendent
Related Resources: Polcy 6450, Staff Use of Computerized Resources
Mental Health
Misunderstanding about mental health can lead to negative attitudes the prevent people with mental illness from being accepted and supported, and can make it harder for them and their families to get help and lead productive lives in their communities. People can and do recover from mental health problems. Learning about developing symptoms, or early warning signs, and taking action, can help. Early intervention can reduce the severity of an illness. It may even be possible to delay or prevent a major mental illness altogether.
Training media: OU BOCES Mental Health training document
School Contact: Principal or direct supervisor
Related resources: Ulster County Mental Health
Parents' Bill of Rights for Data Privacy & Security
In accordance with the requirements of Section 2-d that was added to the New York Education Law, the Marlboro Central School District (MCSD) provides the following Parents’ Bill of Rights with respect to maintaining the privacy and security of student data:
- A student's personally identifiable information cannot be sold or released for any commercial purposes;
- Parents have the right to inspect and review the complete contents of their child's education record;
- State and federal laws protect the confidentiality of personally identifiable information, and safeguards associated with industry standards and best practices, including but not limited to, encryption, firewalls, and password protection, must be in place when data is stored or transferred. This includes third-party vendors' software and programs which require students to "sign-in" with personal information. Each vendor must have a signed "Addendum to Agreement" on file with the Office of Curriculum & Instruction.
Training media: Parents' Bill of Rights for Data Privacy & Security; FERPA
School Contact: Assistant Superintendent, Director of Curriculum & Instruction
Related resources: NYSED Student Data Privacy
Personnel
Each main entrance to our school buildings have monitors observing and assisting visitors to each school. Additional monitors are employed to supervise students during lunch, recess, hallways and other outdoor areas and parking lots. A School Resource Officers is available to each school and travel in between school buildings. The people are police officers assigned to the school and work with administration, staff and students to maintain a safe and secure learning environment. Additionally they offer their expertise in school safety discussions, trainings and assist in communications with our local police department.
Policies
The Board of Education maintains many school policies that address safety to include but not limited to visitors to the school, conduct on school property, anti-harassment, and many others. To go to the Board of Education school policy page, click here.
Right to Know
The district provides employees a workplace free from recognized hazards. It is illegal to retaliate against an employee for using any of their rights under the law, including raising a health and safety concern with you or with OSHA, or reporting a work-related injury or illness.
Training media: Compliance Training Video
School Contact: Director of Facilities, Director of Business & Finance
Related resources: Right to Know OSHA
School Safety Teams (SAVE - Schools Against Violence in Education)
Each school maintains a school safety team. The safety team discusses safety related concerns and assists the building in reviewing building safety protocols and plans. School administrators, district administrators, monitors, teachers, students and Safety Resource Officers are commonly found on these teams. The district also maintains a safety team which meets regularly to review safety in our buildings and discuss training and resources to help ensure a safe safe learning environment for all students.
SCHOOL SAFETY: The Safe School Against Violence in Education (SAVE) and Section 100.2(1) of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education require that each school district adopt a written policy on school conduct and discipline “designed to promote responsible student behavior.”
School safety plans include but are not limited to:
- threat assessment
- emergency response team
- prevention and intervention
- responses to threats and violence - lockdown, lockout, evacuate, shelter
During the school year, you will experience a variety of drills to include, fire, early dismissal, bus drills and lock downs. In the plan we refer to these as standard response protocols or SRP's. Each classroom should have safety related information posted near the door, please see the Classroom poster below and be sure you are familiar with this information. For more information, please see the links below or contact your Principal.
Training media: Standard Response Protocol sponsored by "I Love U Guys" foundation
Staff Training Presentation 9/5/2017 (PDF) (PowerPoint)
Threat Assessment, Spring 2017 Training, NYS Trooper Craig Vedder
Classroom SRP Poster - English, Spanish **To be posted in all classrooms
Student-Parent Handout - English, Spanish
Lockdown Drill Guidance Post Drill Connections
School Contact: Building Principal
Related resources: NYSED Safe Schools Act, iloveuguys.org
Sex Offender Registry
The New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services allows you to be able to view information on sex offenders in our area. The site also contains information on missing children and related information. To visit the Criminal Justic page goto http://www.criminaljustice.ny.gov/index.htm
Click here to search the sex offender registry for your area.
2018-19 Employee Compliance Certification
(To be completed by each employee by September 15)
Once the topics above are reviewed and understood, please proceed to the Employee Certification page and follow the steps to complete your reporting obligation.
