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Signs and Signals of Violence: Secret Service Report Indicators Defined

Paget Hetherington: Jan 7, 2019 4:37:03 PM

Research conducted by the US Secret Service showed a strong correlation between school shootings and previous incidents of bullying and suicidal...

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Holiday Blues: The Effect Depression Has on Students During Winter Break

While the holidays are typically described as a time of joy, not all of our students are necessarily sharing in the spirit of the season. The...

Former Wrestling Pro Gives Hope to K-12 Audiences

Gaggle: Nov 15, 2018 5:42:13 PM

One of our sales representatives, Alex Danko, learned about a dynamic school assembly speaker who focuses on bullying, suicide, and making good life...

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4 Ways Parents Can Keep Kids Safe on Social Media

Gaggle: Sep 21, 2018 7:00:34 AM

With the 2018-19 school year underway, children K-12 will be increasing the time spent on both school-provided technology and personal devices. Many...

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How to Talk to Parents About Safety on School-Provided Technology

Gaggle: May 3, 2018 10:00:46 AM

More and more of today’s parents are digital natives who grew up with laptops, tablets and smartphones as part of their lives, so unlike previous...

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Is the Blue Whale Game Really Causing Kids to Kill Themselves?

Tara Skoglund: May 1, 2018 12:33:19 PM

Last week, our Safety Management team received a considerable number of inquiries from educators concerned about the game “Blue Whale,” which has...

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How to Keep Your Students (and Teachers) Safe on Facebook

Gaggle: Apr 5, 2018 9:48:27 AM

Every day, students and teachers provide information to social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and Instagram, whether they are chatting...

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Cyberbullying Never Sleeps: How to Protect Kids at School and at Home

We’ve all seen that scene in a movie where a kid comes sprinting down his street, pursued by a snarling bully. Just as the bigger, meaner kid reaches...

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Making Sense of the Common Sense Census

Jeff Mao, former Senior Director of Outreach at Common Sense Media, provided one of my favorite analogies a few years back. We were talking about how...

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Student Safety and Restorative Justice

Corey Tutewiler: Feb 6, 2018 8:56:02 AM

Zero-tolerance behavioral policies spread throughout the United States in the mid-1990s, after the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 required states to...