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Students and the Pandemic: What Is Gaggle Seeing?


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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
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
18 Mar 2021

The Dangers of Selfies

The ever-evolving life of a teenager is more challenging and has more confusion and pain than ever before. Of course, we all struggled at some level t...


By     Dr. Lisa Strohman
12 Mar 2021

Our Heroic Students

Throughout the past year, we have seen many heroes emerge. Our first responders, doctors, nurses, grocery workers, lawmakers, education leaders, teach...


By     Jennifer Garrison
09 Mar 2021

The Power of Hope

Hope is a force that no one doubts or disagrees is a good thing. What we are unsure of is what exactly hope is and, more importantly, what it looks li...


By     Angela Maiers
01 Mar 2021

Get to Know a Gaggle Therapist: Dr. Aida Vazin

With mental health on the forefront of education, the connection between students and therapists has never been greater. This connection has also been...


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
09 Feb 2021

The 20–21 School Year: How Are Students Doing So Far?

We recently released a report detailing the alarming increases in student safety trends during the first three months of the 2020–21 school year. In o...


By     Jack Russell
01 Feb 2021

Ring the Alarm: Students in Crisis

Most, if not all, districts across the country experienced a very different start to the 2020–21 school year. For those returning to the classroom, fa...


By     Lisa Railton
23 Dec 2020

Student Wellness: Confronting the Holiday Blues

Gaggle has seen a 66% increase in the number of incidents it has reported this year, partially due to an increase in the volume of content on digital ...


By     Paget Hetherington

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