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One Size Fits One: More Than a Mantra


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25 Jun 2021

One Size Fits One: More Than a Mantra

As a superintendent, I believe that most people in this role, including myself, were taught the wrong way to lead. It is mostly about the language we ...


22 Jun 2021

Prioritizing SEL for the New School Year

The crisis in student mental health has been growing for years, but the pandemic has heightened these struggles for today’s students. In a recent repo...


By     Lisa Railton
11 Jun 2021

Inside Gaggle: Interview with Lucy Quinonez

Lucy Quinonez has spent her entire career focused on education. As a former elementary school educator and Positive Behavioral Interventions and Suppo...


By     Lisa Railton
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

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