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Cause for Concern: Child Exploitation on the Rise

In 2020, the National Center for Exploited & Missing Children (NCMEC) received a record-breaking 21.7 million reports of suspected child sexual exploitation on its CyberTipline. This was up 28% from 2019, when the CyberTipline received 16.9 million...

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Educator Stress Levels Are Rising

Here at Gaggle, our data has provided insight into the state of student mental health throughout the pandemic. We know that students have...

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Reflecting on Columbine: Mass Shootings and Mental Health

Back in April 1999, I was at the FBI Headquarters in Quantico trying to make sense of the Columbine tragedy. As a newly recruited FBI visiting...

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Our Youngest Students Are Not Okay

When schools shut down last March, many districts opted to include elementary students in their Gaggle services to ensure they were protected in the...

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Mind, Mission, and Money

How can your district put stimulus funding into action to enhance the look and feel of education in the post-COVID-19 era? How might you resource...

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Inside Gaggle: Interview with Tamir Rosenberg

Here at Gaggle, technology plays a significant role in keeping students safe, as our machine learning watches out for words and phrases that might...

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Funding Student Mental Health Efforts in the Post-Pandemic Era

In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drastically changed education for most students across the country. Since then, districts have had to shift...

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Mental Health Awareness Month: You Are Not Alone

It was my sophomore year of high school. The district had transitioned from its previous school model, moving my entire class and the class below up...

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Equity in Mental Health: Supporting All Students

The data is in: Students are struggling with their mental health. More than a year after it began, students and educators are still reeling from the...

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Disrupting School Violence: New Secret Service Report Offers Tips for Educators

The U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) recently released a report analyzing 67 disrupted plots against K-12 schools from...

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