SafeSchools About Us

What is SafeSchools?

SafeSchools is an online safety training and tracking system specifically designed for school employees. With several courses that address Environmental, Behavioral, Health, School Safety, Human Resources, and Transportation issues, SafeSchools delivers all of the essential training you need for each employee in your district.

Brief History

Co-Founders.
Brian Taylor and Greg Estep co-founded Scenario Learning in late 2001 with the idea of creating Web-based safety and compliance resources to meet the unique needs of academic institutions. Based in Cincinnati, Ohio, the company began operations in 2002 and has quickly grown to serve customers in all 50 states as well as internationally.

Focus.
The premise for Scenario Learning’s products is simple. Safety and compliance resources for general industry or manufacturing fail to meet the unique needs of academic institutions. With that simple idea, Scenario Learning built SafeSchools.com, which was initially comprised of a half-dozen online training courses. These online courses were coupled with a state-of-the-art Compliance Management System to deploy the courses through the Internet and track all the training for compliance purposes.

Content Expertise.
From the beginning, each SafeSchools course was authored by a recognized, national expert to ensure that the content met the specialized needs of school and academic administrators. In particular, Brian leveraged his expertise as a publisher with Thomson Learning to procure the very best authors across the United States to create training content specifically for the SafeSchools system. Today, there are nearly two dozen nationally-prominent authors as part of the SafeSchools team – helping to ensure that participating districts, schools, and colleges all enjoy the most dependable content in the most critical area – safety.

Flexibility and Scalability.
SafeSchools revolutionary Compliance Management System (CMS) is unlike any other. The system has an array of features that are uniquely suited to simplifying safety and compliance tasks for school and college administrators. This includes seamlessly integrating online and offline learning. Leveraging Greg Estep’s background as an architect of Internet-based systems, the CMS enables the busy safety administrator to have all relevant compliance data at their fingertips and to analyze the data for process improvement.

Expanding and Growing.
SafeSchools courses now number approximately 80 with more to be announced—school-specific, of course, and with nationally-renowned authorship. We’re also increasingly publishing state-specific courses in many areas. The recent release of SafeSchools CMS 2.0 proved to be a quantum leap forward, giving SafeSchools administrators more tools and more analytics to manage safety and compliance across their campuses. The Fall of 2008 will mark the debut of SafeColleges.com, the long-awaited postsecondary version of SafeSchools. SchoolMSDS.com continues to be an outstanding resource for MSDS administration and compliance. The SafeSchools LifeLine anonymous tip line continues to grow as well.

Management Team

Brian Taylor - Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder

Brian honed his leadership skills over 15 years with Thomson Learning, one of the nation's largest publishers, where he held a number of executive and general management positions. More recently as co-founder and COO of Thinkronize, Brian helped conceptualize NetTrekker.com, the nation’s leading “Safe Search Engine,” which recently served its 11 millionth student. At Thinkronize he led the sales, marketing, capital raising, and business development efforts for the business. Over the years, he's led successful partnership efforts with industry giants such as McGraw-Hill, Apple, Intel, Pioneer, the Follett Corporation, Pearson, and Houghton Mifflin. Throughout Brian’s career, he’s demonstrated the ability to help conceptualize and create market-leading educational products, including Computer Visions MultiMedia, Paws in Typing Town, The White House is Our House, NetTrekker.com, and now SafeSchools.com.

Experience: COO/Co-Founder, Thinkronize (NetTrekker); various executive positions at Thomson Learning, Publisher/General Manager, Thomson Learning TOOLS (acquired by McGraw-Hill).

Education: MBA, Xavier University; BA, Judson College; Additional Studies through Executive Ed., Columbia University, and Thomson Leadership Development Institute.

Greg Estep - Chief Operating Officer, Co-Founder

Greg is the architect and engineer that masterminds the deployment of SafeSchools.com’s courseware across the revolutionary Compliance Management System, a sophisticated learning management system designed specifically for compliance. Greg and his team constructed the application from scratch, and it now serves approximately 1,000 school districts, including some of the nation’s largest. His broad IT skills range from database architecture to programming and Internet development. His renowned specialization in building cutting-edge, open-source Internet applications has made him widely respected in the education software industry. Prior to SafeSchools.com Greg successfully led the IT development efforts for a number of education-oriented businesses including Thinkronize, CollegeView, and CARS Information Systems. His pioneering Internet work has been recognized in publications such as Newsweek, The Christian Science Monitor, and USA Today. Greg “hails” from Pike County, Kentucky’s largest and easternmost county.

Experience: Director of Technology, Thinkronize; Director of Engineering, Hobson's (Daily Mail and General Trust); Systems Engineer, Campus Administrative Resource Systems (acquired by Jenzabar).

Education: BS, Information Systems, University of Kentucky.