Superintendent Shaver-Hood Focuses on Technology for Safety and Education

Wareham Public School- Wareham, MA

Wareham Schools Superintendent Kimberly Shaver-Hood said the schools would begin to implement the safety program known as ALICE. ALICE, which stands for Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate, focuses on training individuals to handle the threat of an active shooter. The program was developed by a police officer, after the Columbine shooting in Colorado in 1999. “Next year [it will be implemented] in middle and high school,” Shaver-Hood said. “The following year, we would implement it in all schools.” Read more