Preventing Student Suicides in Greenville City Schools

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Detecting the Early Signs of Students in Crises

Gaggle gives this Tennessee district an advantage in a world where the first sign of a troubled student often surfaces in an email or a saved document—both of which are monitored by student safety software around the clock.

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The Challenge:

Located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in rural Tennessee, Greeneville City Schools serves about 3,000 students across seven schools. There is simply not enough time in the day for an individual—or the district as a whole—to monitor how students are using their devices in this 1:1 Tennessee school district.

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Extra Set of Eyes to Monitor Safety and Well-Being

The Solution:

Greeneville City Schools enlisted the help of Gaggle to provide an extra set of eyes to keep track of what students were saying and feeling in the district’s Microsoft 365 environment. In addition, Gaggle provides them with a dashboard that contextualizes searches and pulls everything together into a format that’s easy to search and reference.

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Benefiting Districts in Ways that Can't be Measured

The Result:

Gaggle helped Greeneville City Schools intervene in multiple suicide attempts, as well as other attacks, incidents involving self-harm, and the sharing of inappropriate content. According to a Greeneville City Schools district employee, Gaggle's student safety platform has benefitted the district in ways that simply can’t be measured from a quantitative perspective.

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Carrollton-Farmers
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Serving approximately 26,000 students across 37 schools, this Texas district turned to Gaggle to help prevent student suicides and self-harm. The district has since intervened in suicide situations after receiving Gaggle alerts.

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With a new 1:1 initiative underway, School District 87 in Illinois needed to gain better visibility over students’ online activities to prevent bullying, fighting, suicide, and self-harm. In search of a trusted provider to work with, the district adopted Gaggle across its 10 schools and 5,500 students.

Northern York
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After implementing a 1:1 laptop initiative, this Pennsylvania district needed a system to monitor student activity online. One student life has been saved as a result of Gaggle’s diligence and immediate alerts, and 36 incidents were flagged as potentially problematic during the platform’s first semester in use.

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