Revere High School recently implemented a state of the art sign in system to enhance the safety of every student.
Just in time for the 2024-2025 school year, the high school implemented a VMS (Visitor Management System). The VMS is currently located inside the front office, acting as a gateway into the school. The VMS has a touchscreen where building visitors can scan their drivers license and automatically be signed into the database. Once approved, a sticker will be printed out with the name of the visitor, their destination and their image.
Principal Doug Faris has approved of the device following its initial implementation in the lower schools.
“You have got a thousand people in here. It can be a little stressful trying to make sure everybody’s safe,” Faris said.
Student Resource Officer (SRO) Scott Dressler describes the process in which a visitor can enter the building.
”You come into the locked vestibule area. You swipe your ID and it tells you if you are allowed to enter or not, and the secretaries and the administrative assistants will get an alert if you are allowed to come in or not. Then they can buzz you in. It prints out a sticker with your name on it and then you are free to go,” Dressler said.
Dressler observed the benefits of the schools who had previously implemented VMS machines.
“I talked to the principals at the middle school, principals at the high school and we decided that we are going to do visitor management systems all across the board,” Dressler said.
Attendance Administrator Debra Zendlo oversees the process of the VMS by “buzzing in” visitors.
“It’s nice that they have a picture ID on them, if someone stops them in the hall wondering who they are [if] maybe they have lost that tag, but this requires the picture and who they are here to visit,” Zendlo said.
Dressler has plans for this device as it becomes in common use at the high school.
“It works with ProgressBook, it is all in one. You do not have to sign in, it is all electronic,” Dressler said.
Zendlo monitors the VMS throughout the day, ensuring that its functions are working properly.
“Today we had a PTSA meeting, so there was about seven or eight people right in that. Probably about ten to twenty times [per day], depending on what we have going on,” Zendlo said.
In the 2024-2025 school year, Revere will use VMS for ongoing safety within the school district.
