7 Tips on How to Improve Your School Dismissal Process

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Are you looking to improve your after-school dismissal process?
Use these seven tips to take your school dismissal from chaos to a well-managed experience for teachers and parents.
1. Determine your school’s dismissal plan and communicate it to parents and staff at the beginning of the school year. Send regular reminders and post it on your website.
2. Organize students into smaller groups for dismissal, like by classroom or grade level. Have students packed up and ready to leave.
3. Teach students to ‘Walk with purpose’ to their release area - this means no stops at the bathroom or water fountains.
4. Display signs and directions around the school entrances, car lines and parking lots to direct traffic. Parents should easily understand where to enter and exit the car line.
5. Require changes to a child’s dismissal be made by a certain cut-off point during the day. This will help alleviate last-minute changes that cause chaos and confusion. Have a clear plan to handle exceptions and how to communicate these changes with your team.
6. Engage your team in dismissal - assign staff and extra teachers to designated areas and exits to flow.
7. Make use of technology to update your system from noisy walkie talkies and bullhorns to a safe and effective app, like CurbSmart, that reduces wait time and improves safety and accountability.
CurbSmart is an easy-to-use app that enhances your dismissal flow by enabling staff members in the car line to quickly enter the number of an arriving parent’s car via their mobile device. CurbSmart makes your dismissal safer for students by allowing them to wait in their classrooms or holding areas inside the building, where teachers are notified when their students are ready for release. CurbSmart also tracks the students who are riding the bus, walking home, or are dismissed to an extracurricular activity or after-school program.
With CurbSmart, you’ll have peace of mind in knowing that students are safely and efficiently released from school. Ready to reduce wait times and make your dismissal safer? Give us a call or check out our website at 888-811-8704 or nutrilinktechnologies.com.