Tips From a First-Year Teacher

Always confirm and practice your building access code to ensure that you a) have the right code and b) truly know how to enter it to fully turn off the alarms.

If you do not do this, you may in fact set off all the alarms in the building, not be able to reach any of the emergency numbers, be told by the security company that you have the wrong access code, and be stuck at the building with the alarms sounding in the corner near tears until you finally do get ahold of the on-call person (whom is really not happy that you are calling him on Labor Day weekend) to come fix the problem.