Ouray Superintendent Tod Lokey lay on the floor of a classroom, pretending he’d been in a medical emergency.

In one scenario, he played a patient who’d fallen down the stairs with a possible concussion; in another, he was assigned to be an unconscious person in a motorcycle crash.

Under the watchful eye of paramedic Ruth Stewart, a group of high school students stepped forward to respond to each situation, assessing his condition and determining their next steps.

Lokey was roleplaying as a pati...