School is out for summer for students in Central Florida, but that doesn't mean school resource officers aren't working their hardest to make sure schools are well protect for this upcoming year.

More than 1,500 school resource officers attended the annual National Association of School Resource Officers conference at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort.

The purpose of the five-day meeting in Orlando is to help train and lead law enforcement in ways to keep students at schools safer.

"An event like this is phenomenal for all SROs and school resource deputies to be able to take part in, because of the training they receive," says Lt. Tim Enos with the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office.

"This gives our guys the opportunity where we learn skills to intervene in kids' lives, to intervene in parents' lives, to be able to provide them with services that are available in the community," added Enos, who is also president of the Florida Association of School Resource Officers.

One of those ways is with parents closely monitoring their children's social media accounts to try and prevent cyberbullying, an issue that has increased in recent years.

Kelly Dejonge, a school resource officer who led one of the seminars Tuesday, said social media needs to be closely monitored.

"Parents need to pay attention. They need to know who their kids are hanging out with, what they're doing online, what they're doing on their cell phones," Dejonge said. "It's education. If they know what's going on, hopefully they can help the problem."

Many resource officers did a site survey Tuesday afternoon of a local middle school by walking around with national school security experts to plan what to do in case of a school emergency. For them, it was about being proactive and knowing what to do if preparations become a reality.

"What we found in research is that people who take a little bit of time to practice and think about what it is they would do if they were in one of these situations do much better than if they don't do that," said Rapid Response training expert Pete Blair.

Many of the officers said they would like to see broader, stricter laws when it comes to bullying and cyberbullying, adding that would be the best way to reduce the number of incidents from happening.