School safety preparedness will be a focus of the final day of the 2013 Annual Principals Conference, set for Oct. 20-22 at the Riverhouse in Bend.

Susan Graves, nationally-certified trainer with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Healthy Students, will provide an extensive training on President Obama’s “Guide for Developing High-Quality School Emergency Operations Plans.”  The training, set for 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 22, is designed to help schools develop and implement high-quality emergency operations plans.  It will cover the principles and processes that will help ensure planning efforts aligned with emergency planning practices at local, state and national levels.

Register for the Principals Conference.  To attend this session only, contact Sera Lockwood.