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GSFT School Safety Certification

A Guardian program is only as strong as its last training day

Initial certification starts a program; sustainment keeps it defensible. We deliver the requalification, scenario training, and documentation cadence that keeps a Texas armed-staff program current — year after year, as personnel, campuses, and law change.

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What sustainment includes

Why boards fund this

The statute is silent on Guardian requalification — which means the standard your district is judged against is the one it writes for itself. Helping boards define and maintain a defensible requalification standard is a specialty of ours: we draft the written standard with your leadership, deliver the training against it, and keep the documentation trail that proves it is followed. That cadence, followed and documented, is the strongest evidence a board can produce that its program is run seriously. It is also what keeps skills real: judgment and accuracy under stress decay without practice, and a program that only fires on qualification day is quietly aging out.

Built around your calendar

Sessions schedule around the school year — in-service days, breaks, and summer windows. Multi-year sustainment agreements lock the cadence in so training happens on schedule instead of when someone remembers.

Frequently asked questions

Is continuing education required for Guardians?
Texas statute sets no requalification interval for §411.1901 trainees — requalification is district policy. That is exactly why it matters: a board that authorizes armed staff and then documents regular, dated proficiency training is running a defensible program. One that trains once and stops is not. Separately, watch the License to Carry itself: the DPS school safety endorsement rides on the LTC, and a lapsed license — even briefly — drops the endorsement and sends that guardian back through the initial course.
What does scenario training involve?
Force-on-force and decision-making exercises using non-lethal training ammunition in realistic settings, with structured debriefs. Participants practice the judgment component — identify, move, communicate, engage or hold — that live-fire qualification alone cannot teach.
How often should our program train?
Most well-run programs pair an annual requalification with at least one scenario-based session per year, plus refreshers when policy, campus layout, or law changes. We help boards set a written cadence that fits their calendar and budget, then keep it on schedule.
Do you train School Marshals too?
Yes — for everything outside the licensing courses themselves. Marshal licensure and the TCOLE renewal course run exclusively through TCOLE-approved law-enforcement academies, but that is the only piece we don’t deliver. Districts with marshals engage us for supplemental training, proficiency enhancement, scenario-based work, and program consulting alongside their TCOLE requirements — the skills that keep a marshal sharp between licensing cycles.
Can training happen on our campuses?
Yes — scenario training is most valuable in the environment your staff actually work in. Sessions are scheduled outside student hours, coordinated with administration, and conducted with strict site-control protocols.

Put your program's next training day on the calendar

Tell us your participant count and when your program last trained. We'll propose a cadence and cost the same business day in most cases.

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We respond to every inquiry the same business day in most cases.