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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
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...


26 Apr 2021

Using Trauma-Informed Practices to Protect Students Against Critical Incidents

Critical incidents in schools are on the rise. Between 2007 and 2018, teenage suicide increased by 60%. Between 2014 and 2019, there were nearly 350 s...


By     Dr. Will Henson
23 Apr 2021

Student Wellness: Dealing With Selfies and Explicit Content

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted education in many ways. One trend Gaggle has observed is a 76% increase in incidents related to nudity and sexual c...


By     Jack Russell
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

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