ALICE Training

In order to maintain a safe environment for teaching and learning, it is necessary that we practice our emergency and crisis response plans by having drills designed to exercise our procedures. Sycamore Community Schools utilizes ALICE Training for staff and students to prepare them in the event that an armed intruder enters one of our schools with the intent on doing harm.  ALICE is a federally endorsed safety protocol that stands for Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, and Evacuate.

During ALICE training, staff and students are trained in different options for responding to a school intruder who is intent on doing harm. In certain circumstances, the “lock the door and hide” strategy might be appropriate. In some cases, staff and students might take precautions to barricade the entrance of the classroom. Under certain conditions, it might be the best decision for the teacher and students to flee the building.

The goal of ALICE training is that the strategies learned will increase the chances that our staff and students might survive if a terrible circumstance of an armed intruder ever were to occur.