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Cause for Concern: Child Exploitation on the Rise


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08 Jun 2021

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 ex...


By     Jack Russell
03 Jun 2021

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 increasingly...


By     Lisa Railton
27 May 2021

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 scholar...


By     Dr. Lisa Strohman
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
20 May 2021

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 your...


By     Susan Gentz
17 May 2021

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 ind...


By     Lisa Railton
14 May 2021

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 betwe...


By     Lisa Railton
10 May 2021

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 t...


By     Jack Russell
07 May 2021

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 d...


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

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