\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Pennsylvania School Board Association and its trust will utilize a new training facility in Cumberland County to educate school leaders and law enforcement on how to more effectively respond to emergencies. The 11,000-square-foot facility will be located next to the PSBA’s headquarters on Baden Powell Lane in Silver Spring Township. It will include new technology, including: 360-degree smart screens for immersive safety scenarios,Simulated classrooms and a two-story school building for real-life experiencesA lecture hall for classroom-style trainingThe association says it will have the most advanced school safety technology available in the country. “I think the idea to have the hands-on training using this incredible technology will really benefit all the local school districts, teachers, principals, school resource officers and everyone who is responsible for children’s safety,” said Kathy Swope, a PSBA board member.Once completed, Swope says school districts that are members of the association and law enforcement will be able to use the facility. The association will be holding a groundbreaking ceremony for the facility Wednesday at 10 a.m. The training facility is expected to be completed by July 2026.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\tSILVER SPRING TOWNSHIP, Pa. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The Pennsylvania School Board Association and its trust will utilize a new training facility in Cumberland County to educate school leaders and law enforcement on how to more effectively respond to emergencies. <\/p>\n
The 11,000-square-foot facility will be located next to the PSBA’s headquarters on Baden Powell Lane in Silver Spring Township. <\/p>\n
It will include new technology, including: <\/p>\n
360-degree smart screens for immersive safety scenarios,Simulated classrooms and a two-story school building for real-life experiencesA lecture hall for classroom-style training<\/p>\n
The association says it will have the most advanced school safety technology available in the country. <\/p>\n
“I think the idea to have the hands-on training using this incredible technology will really benefit all the local school districts, teachers, principals, school resource officers and everyone who is responsible for children’s safety,” said Kathy Swope, a PSBA board member.<\/p>\n
Once completed, Swope says school districts that are members of the association and law enforcement will be able to use the facility. <\/p>\n
The association will be holding a groundbreaking ceremony for the facility Wednesday at 10 a.m. The training facility is expected to be completed by July 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pennsylvania School Board Association and its trust will utilize a new training facility in Cumberland County to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10021,5855,3680,10007,10024,10020,10019,1856,10017,7233,10016,10008,28,30,29,10018,10022,10009,10010,10023,10025,10011,10012,10013,10014,10027,9167,10015,10026],"class_list":{"0":"post-13017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-baden-powell-lane","9":"tag-child","10":"tag-cumberland-county","11":"tag-emergency-response-training","12":"tag-headquarters","13":"tag-immersive-safety-scenario","14":"tag-kathy-swope","15":"tag-law-enforcement","16":"tag-local-school-district","17":"tag-mechanicsburg","18":"tag-new-training-facility","19":"tag-pennslyvania-school-board-association","20":"tag-pennsylvania","21":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","22":"tag-pennsylvania-news","23":"tag-pennsylvania-school-board-association","24":"tag-principal","25":"tag-psba","26":"tag-psba-trust","27":"tag-real-life-experiencesa-lecture-hall","28":"tag-school-resource-officer","29":"tag-school-safety","30":"tag-school-safety-facility","31":"tag-school-safety-training","32":"tag-silver-spring-township","33":"tag-simulated-classroom","34":"tag-teacher","35":"tag-training-facility","36":"tag-two-story-school-building"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}