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Making Sense of the Common Sense Census


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20 Feb 2018

Making Sense of the Common Sense Census

Jeff Mao, former Senior Director of Outreach at Common Sense Media, provided one of my favorite analogies a few years back. We were talking about how ...


By     Rob Yoegel
06 Feb 2018

Student Safety and Restorative Justice

Zero-tolerance behavioral policies spread throughout the United States in the mid-1990s, after the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 required states to exp...


By     Corey Tutewiler
25 Jan 2018

Are There Student Safety Concerns in Your Archive?

I’ve written in the past about the reasons why you should archive email, documents and files using a third-party solution. Similarly, there are strong...


By     Patrick O'Neal
11 Jan 2018

The Impact of Technology-Facilitated Crimes on Students

For years, technology-facilitated crime has presented courts and legislators with the difficulty of maintaining the pace and rapidity of trends in onl...


By     Gaggle
03 Jan 2018

Have Schools Become Too Dangerous?

The term “physical campus safety” probably conjures up images of smoke detectors, evacuation plans, tornado drills, recess monitors and other componen...


By     Gaggle
21 Dec 2017

Top 10 Gaggle Speaks Blog Posts from 2017

Before you ring in the new year, we've compiled this list of top blog posts based on traffic to the Gaggle Speaks Blog and the number of shares each p...


By     Gaggle
13 Dec 2017

Student Online Safety Featured in New Video Series, "From the Principal's Office"

Round-the-clock student safety is nothing new at Gaggle. Hundreds of school districts and thousands of schools have relied on Gaggle Safety Management...


By     Gaggle
05 Dec 2017

Student Safety: It Takes a Village

Who is ultimately responsible for the safety of K-12 students, school districts or parents and guardians?


By     Corey Tutewiler
16 Nov 2017

How Child Pornography Gets on School-Issued Technology

Many schools and districts are unaware, but there’s a very possible scenario by which child pornography can get on school-provided technology. This pr...


By     Corey Tutewiler
08 Nov 2017

Student Safety and SEL

Access to Chromebooks has increased 52% for students in grades 6-8 and 100% in high schools nationwide over the past two years, according to Project T...


By     Jeff Patterson

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