Mason B. Wooldridge
To date, Mason has worked in every facet of the school safety world for both public and private K-12 educational environments. Currently, he is a registered provider through PCCD in the facet of physical security assessments, an active subject matter expert for Act 55 related topics and needs through state-based grant, as well as working privately within the world of school safety throughout the Commonwealth. Mason is a member of his county’s Safe Schools Committee and is currently working to bring brain health programming into the lives of Pennsylvania’s youth throughout Luzerne County.
He has been interviewed nationally for stories and articles pertaining to school safety, written a book on the topic of school safety, trained thousands of teachers and school faculty on the threats that face schools, performed assessments on over 160 schools across the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and has been a national trainer on the topic of school safety throughout the United States as well as a respected in-person trainer for school districts and educational leadership across Pennsylvania.
Starting in 2012, Mason took part in launching a project for the Indiana Sheriffs’ Association to build the safest school in America. Once the “Safest School in America” was complete and shown to the world on September 11th, 2014, Mason became the first school safety consultant for the Indiana Sheriffs’ Association. In this role, he worked to build support statewide in Indiana for the passage of a first-of-its-kind safe schools’ legislation which passed unanimously in 2016. This bill gained statewide support from the IN Teachers’ Association, the IN Superintendents’ Association, the IN Principals’ Association, the IN Chiefs of Police Association, the IN Tactical Officers’ Association, and the IN School Resource Officers’ Association.
After the legislation passed and went into effect, Mason traveled around the country providing in-person training to law enforcement and educational leadership on how to better protect their school environments. During this time of traveling nationally, he was invited by the Luzerne County Intermediate Unit’s countywide Safe Schools Committee to come and speak to a conference of attendees, and it was at this event that a connection was made with LIU18 where he would eventually be brought back post the Parkland School Shooting to facilitate a roundtable discussion with school Superintendents and local legislators for the purpose of putting a plan into action for better protecting the county’s schools. From this meeting, Mason started a full-time consulting focus on helping the schools within Pennsylvania be as safe and secure as possible.
Mason has also been a Director of Safety & Security for a Pennsylvania based, Public K-12 School District, and currently travels across the state training every school entity on Act 55 related topics and mandates.