 Well, if there's ever an active shooter on a school campus, students are usually placed on lockdown. Alice's training will change that. Haiti Clotter tells us how staff at Horace May Elementary are taking matters into their own hands. Horace May Elementary is one of several schools throughout the state that have implemented a new standard for active shootings. Alice's training serves as an alternative to traditional school lockdowns. We just want to be as best prepared as we can be to protect our, we call them little pumpkins. There are little kids, there are students, but they're truly our Horace May family. So we want to be as best prepared as possible to look out for their best interests always. Officer Jeff Roberts with the Biltrami Police Department spent Tuesday afternoon going over Alice's training, scenarios and answering questions. All this led up to the teachers getting put to the test. Alice gives teachers the ability to use the knowledge of their classroom, their students and the situation as it unfolds to make decisions that are best for keeping their children safe. Alice stands for alert, lockdown, inform, counter and evacuate. Alert if you see or hear a threat you have to react. Lockdown, lock the door and fortify it so the attacker won't enter. Inform, call 911, counter, do what you can to restrain the attacker like throwing objects. Evacuate if you run away from a threat you're safer. The training can be a little intense and it could be, it's obviously scary. You don't have something that's happening in school and it scares anybody. But I think the fact that you have tools, you have resources and the ability to make decisions to keep yourself and your kids safe is a reassuring factor for them. Officer Roberts simulated an attack by announcing there was a bad guy with a black shirt and blue jeans on campus that poses a threat. Teachers then swung into action by implementing the techniques. It's really good for us to be prepared. We watch the news and the media about tragedies all the time and we're not prepared and we're not ready to react. We just have to be as ready as we possibly can and this gives us some tools to think about before we're ever in a situation like this. For 37 years, John Shorter has taught at Horace May and has never been involved in an active shooter incident. With the training, he feels confident that he would know how to handle the situation. I definitely feel I'm a little more prepared but it also, you know, it gives me some homework assignments to think about what can I do to prepare myself to be better. In Bemidji, Haiti Clotter, Lakeland News. Officer Roberts says the goal is for the teachers to learn the ALICE training and then take that information and prepare their students if there's ever an emergency situation such as an active shooter. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.