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Fridays with Chief Trawick: How Tip Line Platforms Enhance Campus Security


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09 Jun 2023

Fridays with Chief Trawick: How Tip Line Platforms Enhance Campus Security

In today’s segment, we’re exploring the topic and benefits of utilizing a tipline platform to enhance student safety.


26 May 2023

Fridays with Chief Trawick: Supporting the Mental Health in Youth and Adolescents

In today’s segment of “Fridays with Chief Trawick”, we’re exploring the importance of schools effectively supporting the mental health and well-being ...


12 May 2023

Fridays with Chief Trawick: A New Blog Series on Campus Security

Gaggle has partnered with Chief Thomas Y. Trawick, Jr. (Ret.), CEO and Founder of Reimagined Campus Security, LLC, for a new six-part blog series titl...


11 Apr 2023

A Return to Gaggle After Competitor Services Fall Short

Keeping students safe in the digital world has become an increasingly difficult challenge for schools. As part of an ever-evolving digital world, scho...


By     Candy Tai
21 Mar 2023

The Key to Keeping Students Safe Online

In July of 2018 I went from a high school teacher of 15 years to a building-based administrator. The change, although pre-COVID, was at the beginning ...


18 Nov 2022

Proactive Protection: AI-Powered Gun Detection Technology

A 2021 report from the U.S. Secret Service’s National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) analyzed 67 disrupted plots against K-12 schools from 2006–2018....


By     Candy Tai
07 Oct 2022

What to Know About Child Sex Trafficking

Commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) is also known as child sex trafficking. Any child or teen can be a victim, but we know that homeless...


By     Dr. Kecia Ray
20 Sep 2022

Social Media: Hotspot for Predators

In 1990, the Center for Disease Control began administering the Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey (ABES). The survey is still being administ...


By     Dr. Kecia Ray
08 Sep 2022

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Emojis

In the fall I had a group of mothers approach me after a seminar to ask me about what they were calling ‘picture texting’ as a cause for concern that ...


By     Dr. Lisa Strohman
28 Jul 2022

It’s Not Too Late

When I was teaching in the early 80s, one of my former students entered his classroom with a gun and shot himself in front of the classroom. Before he...


By     Dr. Kecia Ray

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