Active-shooter plan

The “Active Shooter Action Plan” video shows a simulated event and school lockdown. It was produced by the Coyote Crisis Consortium, a Scottsdale-based non-profit group that provides information and best practices for businesses and community groups to prepare for a disaster. The video was created using $30,200 in donations from businesses.

It includes scenes of a man waving a gun in a school hallway and screaming at students.

Dorer, the Scottsdale schools security chief, said the video is meant for teachers to consider how they would evacuate their classrooms in a chaotic situation.

“It might be, ‘I think we can get down those stairs,’ or ‘I only have one door, but I do have a window,’ ” he said.

Scotti, the Paradise Valley district parent, helped write the script for the video and came up with the name.

“I think parents should know that their kids’ teachers are armed with so much good information that they can use any way they need to,” she said of the video. “Information is the key to everything.”

There’s a warning at the beginning of the video that the content maybe disturbing, but Gabriel Trujillo, principal at Trevor Browne in the Phoenix Union High School District, thinks it perfectly captures what would really happen.

“It gave a feel for just how it would go down in a school, because I think there is a misconception that it would be a shooter coming into the front office. Really, every area of the school has to take actions that would reduce the risk of harm,” he said.

Trujillo doesn’t think schools should train students to counter an armed intruder. Instead, teachers and staff should watch the video and think about what they would do.

“We’re the ones whose actions and reactions in the face of an emergency will determine the safety of the kids,” Trujillo said. “We’re the ones at the helm.”