Teaching · Related Services

Every room the student uses needs a way out that has been practiced.

List each place in the school day and how the student leaves it. The summary finds the rooms with only stairs or an elevator, the helpers with no backup and the drill that is overdue.

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The evacuation plan

One record per student, dated each time it is revised. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Related Services$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
A plan for one student: every place without a level way out and its waiting spot, helper and backup gaps, equipment and practice gaps, alerting steps and the drill history.
Who it is for
School physical therapists, nurses, special education teachers and building administrators writing a student’s evacuation plan with the family.
Format
Browser organizer. One saved record per student and revision; printed with its summary or as a blank form; CSV; export and import a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Related Services toolkit ($99) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Related Services space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
waitEXITa level way out, or a named wait
Drawn for this page. For a student who cannot use stairs, every upper-floor room needs a waiting spot, a helper and a way down that has been practiced.

How to use it

  1. Walk the student’s full day, including specials, lunch and the bus loop, and list every place.
  2. For each place, mark the floor and the way out a wheelchair or walker can use.
  3. Name a refuge space or waiting spot for every place with stairs or an elevator only.
  4. Name a primary helper and a backup for every time of day, and train both.
  5. Practice with the student, the real helpers and the device, and record how it went.

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What the plan covers

Why every place

Plans often cover the homeroom and miss the science lab, the library or the music room upstairs. A student is only as safe as the hardest room in their week, so the list should match the schedule, including rooms used one day a week.

Waiting spots and elevators

Building codes provide refuge spaces by some stairs: fire-resistant waiting spots, often with a two-way call box, where a person who cannot use the stairs waits for help. Elevators are normally recalled to the ground floor when the fire alarm sounds, so a room reached only by elevator needs its own plan.

What it is not

It does not replace the school’s emergency operations plan or the fire service’s direction. Equipment choice and transfer methods belong to the student’s therapist and the device maker’s instructions.

Sources

  1. U.S. Department of Education and partner agencies (2013). Guide for Developing High-Quality School Emergency Operations Plans: the access and functional needs annex.
  2. National Fire Protection Association (2016). Emergency Evacuation Planning Guide for People with Disabilities.
  3. U.S. Fire Administration (FEMA). Emergency Procedures for Employees with Disabilities in Office Occupancies: buddy systems, refuge spaces and evacuation devices.
  4. U.S. Department of Justice. 2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design, section 207: accessible means of egress.

The example student and building are made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.