INTERACTIVE DRILL · SHARE911
Take the call.
You're the principal. A teacher just reported someone in the building who doesn't belong. Pick up the phone, and a 911 dispatcher will walk you through the next five minutes — the questions you'll be asked, the ones you can answer, and the ones you can't.
How to start
This is not a real 911 call. Nothing you say goes to a 911 center, a police department, or anyone else. The "dispatcher" is a simulation running on this page, so you can use your real name and your real school's address to make it feel authentic, or make them up. Either works.
The drill runs from the small dark bar in the bottom-right corner of this page. It does not start on its own.
1. Click the round orange phone icon in that bar. That's the start button.
2. Allow your microphone when the browser asks.
3. Turn your volume down a little, or use headphones. This is a realistic 911 call about a threat in a school, and you don't want anyone nearby to overhear it and think it's real.
4. The dispatcher will explain the setup. When she asks, say "I'm ready" and the call begins.
It takes about five minutes and ends with a short debrief of how you did.
HOW IT WORKS
1. Take the call
You report what your staff told you. The dispatcher confirms your location, gets a description, and directs the lockdown. Officers are dispatched.
2. Answer what responders need
How many people are in the building. Which rooms are locked. Who's outside. Where the visitors are. The questions arriving officers ask in the first two minutes — answered from memory, on the phone.
3. Debrief
The dispatcher steps out of character, tells you what you answered and what you couldn't, and explains why the hard questions were hard. Then you decide what to do about it.
The hard questions aren't hard because you don't know your school. They're hard because the answers live in forty people you can't reach, and the only way to get them to police is to say them out loud to one dispatcher. Share911 is built to close that gap.
This is a training simulation from OnScene Technologies. No real emergency services are involved, and the simulation cannot send help. In a real emergency, always call 911. Conversations are recorded so the drill can produce an after-action summary.