The Story Behind
the Standard.
Protecting Our Students, Inc. is a Nevada 501(c)(3) founded in 2019. We exist to answer the same question every parent in America asks: How safe is my child's school — really? The frameworks, the platform, and the standard we are building all begin with that question — and with the families, like ours, who have already paid too much for the answer.
We are small by design and patient by necessity. The kind of infrastructure we are building takes a decade to establish and a generation to matter — and the next family deserves it sooner than that.
Six years of original work, now operational.
Four proprietary frameworks. One assessment engine. A national self-scoring platform in development. The standard didn't exist — so we built it.
- The 4-Level Safety Standard℠ — the structural framework defining what comprehensive school safety looks like.
- The 94-Point Safety Zones℠ — the granular assessment instrument that makes the standard measurable across physical, procedural, and cultural dimensions.
- The Dynamic Safety Score℠ — private-by-default, the methodology that converts assessment into a comparable, trackable, real-time metric.
- SafeSchool REPORT℠ — the self-verified output stakeholders can act on.
- SITE|SAFETYNET℠ — the working assessment engine built from 2024–2025 to deliver these frameworks in the field. Now integrated into SafeSchoolMAP℠, our national scoring platform in development.
- 100+ published articles, posts, and educational resources on K–12 safety standardization.
Robert Jordan
Robert founded Protecting Our Students, Inc. in 2019 as a Nevada 501(c)(3). He has spent the years since authoring the frameworks the organization stands on and building the platforms that put them to work — from the original POSI assessment methodology to SITE|SAFETYNET℠ and now SafeSchoolMAP℠, the national scoring platform currently in development.
- Certified Terrorism Liaison Officer (TLO) — Missouri, 2024
- TxSSC Approved Audit Consultant — Texas School Safety Center
- SRP & SRM Trained — I Love U Guys Foundation
- Member — National Association of School Resource Officers (NASRO)
I come from a family of nine — my parents and seven brothers. Four of my brothers are gone. Three of us are still here.
The first loss was my eldest brother, Gary S. Jordan, killed in Vietnam in 1967. I was nine. Over the next five decades, my family lost, on average, one of us every ten years. Loss like that teaches you something about how a single moment can take a life that was just beginning, just continuing, just growing.
That is why I started this work. In a country with nearly 400 million guns and an active-shooter incident on a campus most months of the year, the next family is already counting down without knowing it. Protecting Our Students exists to make that countdown shorter, smaller, rarer. Much of what can prevent harm to a child begins in the K–12 school system — and that is where this organization has chosen to plant its flag.
One standard. Two channels.
POSI's frameworks reach schools through two channels working in parallel — built for trust on one side, scale on the other.
Direct Nonprofit Programs
Funded by sponsors, donors, and grants. This is where assessments happen for schools that could not otherwise afford them, and where our public-facing educational work and free safety profile lookups live.
Licensed Deployment
POSI licenses its frameworks under arm's-length terms to SITE|SAFETYNET℠, the national infrastructure built to deliver self-verified safety scores for all 130,000+ U.S. K–12 schools. Royalties return to POSI to fund the mission.
The standard needs to be owned by a nonprofit so it stays trusted. Deployment at national scale requires commercial infrastructure. Both serve the same mission.
Help us build the next chapter.
Districts, insurance pools, education agencies — let's talk. Mission-aligned operators, advisors, and board members — we're listening. Local businesses ready to fund a school in your community — we'll find one that needs you.