Teaching Better Digital Citizenship at Rhea County School District

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Monitoring Student Activity in Google Workspace

The Challenge:

Rhea County School District is a public school district located in Dayton, TN. With over 4,400 students, Rhea County has an emphasis on developing digital literacy. They needed a system in place to monitor student behavior on Google Workspace programs but did not have the systems or administration procedures in place to support it.

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Protecting Children in a Digital World

The Solution:

When Dallas Hicks was introduced to Gaggle at an industry conference in 2018, this Technology Director at Rhea County School District in Tennessee knew that he’d found a solution to a very modern problem: protecting children in our digital world and helping to nurture responsible digital citizens. The district chose Gaggle and used its professional development resources to ensure that all of the district’s administrators knew how the program worked and how to handle alerts.

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Equipped to Handle Student Safety Situations

The Results:

Now they have clear processes within Gaggle, and all administrators understand how to properly handle a wide range of student safety situations.

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“It’s too easy to say that it can’t happen here, or that it only happens in big cities, but kids are the same everywhere; we’re all susceptible. They’re going to make mistakes and do things that they shouldn’t do, and we need to be aware and protect them—just in case.”

Dallas Hicks

Technology Director

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