Your safety plan means nothing if your staff cannot execute it.
When law enforcement arrives — on average 30 minutes after an incident begins — your staff will have been managing it alone for 25 of those minutes. The Sentinel Series closes that gap with training built by someone who has been inside a building when it happened.
30 minutes. 5 minutes. 25 minutes your staff fills alone.
The National average law enforcement response time to an active school incident is approximately 30 minutes. The average violent school incident ends in under 5 minutes — which means law enforcement arrives after the situation has already been determined.
That leaves your staff — teachers, counselors, office staff, substitutes — holding the line for roughly 25 minutes with whatever training they received, whenever they last received it, from whoever delivered it.
Most districts train annually. A 45-minute session with a slide deck. Then they hope the staff remember what to do when the moment arrives.
The Sentinel Series was built for that 25-minute gap — because that gap is where outcomes are decided.
Five tiers. One integrated framework.
Each tier builds on the one before it. The Sentinel Series is always the primary engagement. Every other tier extends and sustains the investment your district makes in it.
Sentinel Series
23 modules + 5 Specials. The flagship curriculum. SRP-aligned, scenario-driven, practitioner-built. For every adult in the building.
Reunification Services
16-week consulting engagement. 27 templates. SOGs, tabletop exercises, AAR reporting. The moment most districts get wrong, done right.
Sentinel Compact
Seven written guarantees. A documented accountability framework for districts that want measurable commitments, not vendor promises.
Keynotes
11 keynote addresses, each with 14 production artifacts. For board meetings, staff development days, ESC convenings, and leadership institutes.
Sentinel Ground Coming Q4 2026
Digital site intelligence layer. Virtual walkthrough of your campus mapped to your SOGs. The spatial layer that completes the procedural work.
23 Modules. One Discipline. Every Adult.
Organized by category. Delivered in any order. Each module includes a Participant Workbook and a Facilitator Guide. All 23 are SRP-aligned and scenario-driven.
The Gravity of Complacency
Why safe schools become unsafe. The psychology of small things that compound.
Presence and Reporting
Building the observer mindset — seeing and reporting before something breaks.
Perimeter and Transitions
Where most incidents actually begin — the unlocked door and the unsupervised hallway.
Hold and Secure
The protocol most confused in practice. What it is, what it is not, and when to call it.
Lockdown
Beyond the drill. Decision-making under pressure when protocol meets chaos.
Evacuate and Shelter
Knowing the difference — and which protocol your building can actually execute.
Reunification
The moment most districts get wrong. The SRM framework that keeps families safe.
Measure to Improve
Drill evaluation that produces real change. What to measure. What to discard.
Sustaining the Shield
Keeping a safety culture alive after the first training year.
The Guardian's Vow
The commitment staff make — and the structure that keeps it.
The Investigative Mindset
How to think about concerning behavior. What separates a report from a file.
The Forensic Principal
Building a campus leader who can dissect an incident and prevent the next one.
Situational Awareness
Training the brain to detect patterns before events. Research-grounded techniques.
Behavioral Threat Assessment
The framework every district needs. What CSTAG teaches and what it misses.
The Digital Perimeter
Social media, device, and communication threats that schools did not sign up to manage.
Indecision as a Threat
When hesitation costs. How leaders build decision speed in their teams.
Tactical Handshake
The coordination gap between school staff and first responders — and how to close it.
Vulnerable Populations
Safety protocols that account for every student, including the hardest to move.
Strategic Communications
Crisis communications before, during, and after.
Recovery and the 1000-Day Timeline
What comes after the incident. The long recovery no district is ready for.
The Sentinel Committee
The internal governance structure that keeps safety alive beyond any single administrator.
The Sentinel Substitute
Training for substitutes — the most underprepared group in every building.
The Mirror
When discipline data becomes a safety conversation — and what to do with what it reveals.
Five standalone workshops outside the 23-module sequence.
Every Child Comes Home
A Deep Dive in School Reunification — advanced scenario training for crisis teams and district coordinators.
When Complacency Costs Everything
A Critical Incident Review — case-study-driven examination of what was missed and when.
Sentinel Substitute Deep Dive
Workshop Edition of M-22 — extended training specifically built for substitute staff.
SRP-SRM Scenario Training
Working the Six Protocols Under Pressure — live scenario exercises for safety teams.
Cultivating Sentinels
Building the Adult Habits That Hold a School Together — culture and mindset at the campus level.
11 keynote addresses. Each with 14 production artifacts.
For board meetings, staff development days, ESC convenings, and district leadership institutes. Practitioner voice. No slides full of statistics without context.
The Gravity of Complacency
The Little Things That Lead to Big Problems
Hold, Secure, Lockdown
Three Words That Save Lives or Cost Them
Awareness Is Not a Personality Trait
What You Scan For Is What You See
The 77-Minute Lesson
Indecision Is a Decision Whether You Made It On Purpose
Parent Trust Lives in the Reunification, Not the Lockdown
The Guardian's Vow
You Do Not Need Motivation, You Need a Reason
The Tactical Handshake
Your Plan Should Not Depend on One Deputy's Cell Phone
The November Wall
Why School Safety Programs Die in Q2
The Mirror
When Discipline Data Becomes a Safety Conversation
Your Principal Is the Building's Senior Fact-Finder
The Information Was Already in the Building
Only Your Staff Can Interrupt
Three engagement tiers. The right one depends on where your district is starting.
Pricing is discussed on the discovery call — every district's situation is different. All three tiers include the full Sentinel Series curriculum package and are eligible for BSCA, Title IV-A, and Texas HB 3 funding.
Sentinel Series Pilot
Two modules delivered on-site. Foundation modules or your selection. For districts that want to see the curriculum in action before committing to the full program.
- Two Sentinel Series modules — your selection
- All participant workbooks printed and delivered
- Facilitator Guide for your safety team
- On-site delivery by Michael Peck
- Post-session debrief and gap analysis
Sentinel Series Core
The complete 23-module curriculum delivered over one full school year, sequenced to your district calendar, with a dedicated facilitator track for your internal safety team.
- All 23 modules — full curriculum delivery
- Participant workbooks for all staff
- Complete Facilitator Guide library
- Dedicated internal facilitator track
- Quarterly progress reviews
- Annual sustainment planning session
- Eligible for BSCA, Title IV-A, HB 3 funding
Sentinel Series Wrap-Around
Full curriculum plus Reunification Services and Sentinel Compact — the complete three-tier engagement for districts that want the full program covered in year one.
- Everything in Core
- Reunification Services — 16-week engagement
- All 27 reunification templates customized
- Sentinel Compact — 7 Guarantees framework
- Annual sustainment package — Year 2
- Priority scheduling and dedicated account access
Multi-campus districts receive per-campus rates discussed on the discovery call. All tiers eligible for BSCA Stronger Connections, Title IV-A, and Texas HB 3 funding.
Districts do not have to choose between safety and budget.
Three federal and state funding mechanisms were designed to pay for exactly this kind of training. Most districts are not using all of them.
BSCA Stronger Connections
Bipartisan Safer Communities Act funding specifically designated for school safety and mental health. Districts that have not yet obligated these dollars have a hard deadline of September 30, 2026. Funds may be used for professional development, curriculum, and consulting services.
Check Your District's BalanceTexas HB 3 + SB 57
Texas school safety allotment established under HB 3 and strengthened under SB 57. Allocated annually per district based on ADA and campus count. May be used for safety training, audits, and professional development programs aligned to the Texas School Safety Center standards.
Title IV-A — SSAE
Student Support and Academic Enrichment grants are available to every district receiving Title IV-A funds. School safety professional development is an explicitly allowable use. Many districts park Title IV-A funds without fully utilizing the safety development allowance.
Schedule Funding Conversation
23 years inside Texas public education. Practitioner, not consultant.
Michael Peck spent 23 years in Texas public education running campuses, leading safety teams, participating in actual critical incident responses, and watching how training fails under pressure when it was built on slides instead of scenarios.
He did not build the Sentinel Series from a conference room. He built it from the inside — from every drill that fell apart, every call he fielded at midnight, every moment he saw a staff member freeze because no one had taught them what to actually do.
"I spent 23 years inside Texas public education. I know what it looks like when a drill falls apart because staff were trained on slides, not scenarios."
— Michael Peck, M.Ed., MBA · Founder, High Impact ProgramsA 30-minute discovery call. No pitch deck. No pressure.
Pick a time, share where your district is, and we will have an honest conversation about whether the Sentinel Series is the right fit — and if it is, what funding covers it.
281-203-7810 · Peck@highimpactprograms.com · Houston, TX · M–F 8am–6pm CT