ERA — Emergency Response & Accountability App for Schools

One alert, one action

Four alerts everyone already knows.

Leadership sends the alert from their phone. It arrives on every staff device with the instruction attached — so nobody has to remember the protocol under pressure.

Earthquake

Drop & cover

Drop, cover and hold on. When the shaking stops, evacuate to the assembly point and report your status.

Fire

Evacuate immediately

Leave by the nearest safe exit — no elevators. Walk calmly to the assembly point and report as soon as you are safe.

Lockdown

Secure campus

Lock the room, lights off, away from windows, devices silent. Report your status once you are secure.

All clear

Resume activities

The emergency is over. Classes return to normal activity and await any further instruction from administration.

1 Open ERA 2 Select your location 3 Safe · Need help · Medical 4 Submit your report 5 Await instructions

The problem ERA was built for

A drill is not a test of the alarm. It is a test of whether anyone can say, with certainty, that every child is where they should be.

On paper

Slips collected after the eventLeadership learns the picture once everyone is back inside.

In ERA

One board, updating as it happensEvery room's status, every missing name, every medical flag — live.

On paper

The report typed up the next morningTimes reconstructed from memory, wording different every time.

In ERA

The report written as the drill closesComposed from what actually happened and emailed to the people who need it.

Who uses it

Five views of the same emergency.

Everyone opens the same app and lands where their job is. Nobody scrolls past information that isn't theirs.

Every teacher

Staff

Mark the group safe, flag a student missing, call for help, add a note. Signing in with a school account is enough — there is no staff list to maintain.

Principals & safety leads

Leadership

The whole school on one board: safe, need help, medical, still checking. Assign floor sweeps, follow up on a room, send the report when it's over.

Attendance office

Attendance

Who is in today, homeroom by homeroom, and who is with the nurse. Resets itself each morning at the hour the school sets.

School nurse

Clinic

Students currently in the clinic, a running note on each one, and a discharge back to class. Every visit stays in the history.

School administrator

IT Admins

Branding, rooms and floors, rosters, report wording, email routing, notifications. The school controls its own setup — no code, no ticket.

Inside the app

Built for high-stress clarity.

No complicated menus or cluttered screens. Simple, focused interfaces designed specifically for emergency situations.

ERA now

EMERGENCY DRILL ACTIVATED

Please follow lockdown procedures immediately. Check the app for updates.

Instant Push Alerts

Bypass email delays. Push notifications instantly wake up devices to alert staff the moment a drill or emergency is triggered.

258/297 Accounted For

Safe

Medical

Live Accountability

Admins see a real-time count of safe, missing, and medical statuses across the entire campus, updating instantly.

Admin Sarah

Floor 2 sweep is complete.

John Staff

Room 204 secure. 24 students present.

Global Campus Chat

A real-time messaging thread shared between all Staff and Admins. Auto-clears when the drill is reset.

Mark Room Safe

Need Assistance

One-Tap Reporting

Staff submit location and roster accountability instantly without relying on paper, runners, or radios.

Why ERA is different

Accountability measured against reality.

Most emergency apps start from a static staff list and ask everyone to check in. ERA runs your school's live daily attendance and clinic records. When an alert goes out, it already knows who is actually in the building this morning, not who was on a roster in September.

1. It knows who is actually supposed to be there.

This is the single hardest thing for a generic mass-notification tool to replicate. By integrating daily attendance and the clinic log directly into the core loop, ERA knows exactly who is absent or resting with the nurse before the drill even starts. Accountability isn't estimated; it is real, instant, and accurate to the morning.

2. It closes the loop

Broadcast tools only tell people something is happening. ERA tracks the response until every space is accounted for, coordinates the floor sweeps, and automatically generates the final incident report. Alert, response, accountability, sweep, report — one system, one record.

3. Automatic safe-status

When a homeroom teacher reports safe and no students from their roster are checked in elsewhere, the system resolves that roster itself. Students flagged medical or in the clinic count as present and located. Fewer taps under pressure means fewer false "missing" alarms.

4. Isolated infrastructure

ERA is not a shared multi-tenant database with school data sitting side by side. Each school runs on its own dedicated cloud project, with its own database, credentials, and subdomain. Data is never pooled across customers.

5. Genuinely white-label

Your school's logo, colours, name, and app icon. Staff install your school's app to their phone, not a vendor's generic tool. No ERA branding is baked into what your staff sees on their devices during a crisis.

6. Multilingual interface

English, French, Spanish and Turkish translations are built-in. Each staff member picks their own language, and the choice persists on their device. Built for international-school staff rooms where the caretaker, the nurse, and the maths teacher do not share a first language.

7. Deploys without touching a device

No app store submission, no MDM rollout, no IT ticket per phone. It operates as a Progressive Web App (PWA) — staff simply open a link and save it to their home screen. Updates reach every device on the next open.

Data & access

Your school's data stays your school's.

ERA handles student records, including medical flags. That is treated as the serious responsibility it is, and the terms are put in writing before handover — not buried in a settings page.

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Your own instanceEach school runs on its own database and its own hosting. No shared tenancy, no other school's records alongside yours.
02
Access by school accountStaff sign in with the school's own email domain. Leadership, attendance and clinic access comes from lists your administrator controls.
03
Written agreement firstA data processing and confidentiality agreement is signed with the school, covering what is accessed, how it is handled, and how long it is kept.
04
Developer access, stated openlyThe developer keeps standing access for setup, troubleshooting and maintenance. It is disclosed inside the product itself and governed by the signed agreement.
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Designed around KVKK and GDPR obligationsData location, retention and access are configured per school, so the school can answer its own regulator.

Getting started

From first call to first drill.

The order matters, so it is done in one sequence with the school's IT contact. A written setup guide stays with the school afterwards.

Step 1

Your project

The school creates its own cloud project. ERA is deployed into it and belongs to the school from day one.

Step 2

Brand it

Logo, school name, app name and icon. Staff install from a link and see the school's identity, not ours.

Step 3

Import the school

Classrooms, offices, floors, homerooms and students, imported from a spreadsheet using a supplied template.

Step 4

Routing & wording

Who receives drill and attendance reports, and exactly how those emails read. Previewed before anything is sent.

Step 5

Hand over

Access lists set, staff onboarded, and a first practice drill run together before it enters the safety calendar.

About the Founder

"I didn't set out to build software. I set out to fix a drill."

I've spent my career in international schools, leading educational technology and teaching ICT. But ERA didn't start at a desk. It started standing in a drill, holding a roster in one hand and a phone in the other, trying to account for a whole class — and knowing that nobody at the other end of the building could see what I was seeing.

Our procedures lived on paper checklists and group chats. Slips came back after it was over. The report was typed up the next morning from memory, with the times reconstructed. Neither one survives a real incident, and everybody in the building knows it.

So I built the tool I wanted to have that day: staff report their own status from wherever they are, leadership watches every room resolve live, the clinic knows who's in it, and the report writes itself when it's over.

I designed, built and deployed all of it — the app, the database, the alerts, the reporting. It has run through real drills in a working school, which is a different test from a demo. Every feature in it exists because something in a real drill didn't work.

ERA is now available to other schools. If your emergency plan lives in a binder, I'd like to hear from you.

Rawan El Adawi

Founder of ERA

Contact Rawan

Frequently Asked Questions

Deployment & Integration

Do we need Mobile Device Management (MDM) to deploy ERA?

No. ERA operates as a Progressive Web App (PWA). Staff simply open a secure link and tap "Add to Home Screen". There is no need to configure MDM profiles, wait for App Store approvals, or manage IT tickets for individual staff devices. Updates are pushed automatically the next time the app is opened.

How does ERA integrate with our Student Information System?

ERA uses a straightforward bulk-import process via spreadsheet templates. You export your rosters, room lists, and student data from your existing SIS (such as ManageBac, PowerSchool, or iSAMS) and import them directly into your isolated ERA database. This avoids complex API integrations that compromise security.

Do staff need to create new accounts and passwords?

No. Authentication is handled entirely through your school's existing Google Workspace domain (@yourschool.edu). Staff sign in instantly without creating new credentials. If an employee leaves and their Google account is deactivated, their access to ERA is automatically revoked.

Does the system work if the Wi-Fi goes down?

The app itself loads from the device cache instantly, even on poor connections. However, because ERA calculates live accountability across the entire campus, reporting a status or viewing the live dashboard does require a functional network connection (Wi-Fi or cellular) to sync with the central database.

Know the alert.
Take action.
Stay safe.