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25 May 2021

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 d...


By     Lisa Railton
04 May 2021

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 200...


By     Paget Hetherington
23 Apr 2021

Student Wellness: Dealing With Selfies and Explicit Content

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted education in many ways. One trend Gaggle has observed is a 76% increase in incidents related to nudity and sexual c...


By     Jack Russell
20 Apr 2021

Students and the Pandemic: What Is Gaggle Seeing?

More than a year after the COVID-19 pandemic flipped learning upside-down overnight for students and educators across the country, how are students co...


By     Lisa Railton
13 Apr 2021

Uncovering Cries for Help With Gaggle

When Cajon Valley Union School District rolled out a 1:1 Chromebook program in 2014, Chief Technology Officer Jonathon Guertin and his team felt that ...


By     Lisa Railton
06 Apr 2021

The Fight Against Human Trafficking

Human trafficking impacts millions of individuals across the world each year—including here in the United States. But what exactly do we mean when tal...


By     Lisa Railton
01 Apr 2021

Student Digital Signals: Navigating the District Digital Landscape

Fast-forward to 2025—how will we look back at 2020 and 2021 from an education perspective? Will the efforts to address multiple challenges around cont...


By     Lillian Kellogg
23 Mar 2021

National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week

During the pandemic, Gaggle has observed some concerning student safety trends. Among these trends is a 59% increase in student references to drugs an...


By     Jack Russell
15 Mar 2021

Pornography or Exploitation? Why Words Matter

While legal terminology still refers to visual depictions of sexually explicit conduct involving minors as child pornography, many organizations and a...


By     Lisa Railton
26 Feb 2021

Observing Self-Injury Awareness Day

Monday, March 1 is Self-Injury Awareness Day—an annual day of observance to drive awareness of self-harm. This global event is designed to help people...


By     Jack Russell

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