Part 1: Your School Safety Priorities for the New Year
Administrators review protocols, staff complete training refreshers, and districts take stock of what worked last year versus what needs work. Despite these annual recommitments, too many schools still operate without the fundamental systems that actually prevent violence.
How to Be a Student Outcomes Hero: Using EdTech Data for Student Success
Student needs are more complex, learning gaps have widened, and expectations for accountability and budget impact on digital learning tools have never been higher. Improving outcomes today isn’t about buying more tools or collecting more data.
New in Lightspeed Alert™: Enhanced Student Safety Trends Reporting for K-12 Districts
The Alert Insights Dashboard gives district leaders, safety teams, and counselors a comprehensive look at when, where, and how student safety concerns are emerging. By connecting incidents to time, category, and severity, schools can identify trends early and strengthen prevention strategies.
Lightspeed Alert Expands Student Safety Net with New Canvas LMS Integration
Lightspeed Systems is taking another big step forward in student safety with the general availability of its powerful new Canvas LMS integration for Lightspeed Alert™. As more classrooms move online, it’s never been more important to ensure student well-being in digital spaces.
Fueling Your Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management with Behavioral Threat Assessment Intelligence (BTAI)
When a student poses a risk to themselves or others, time matters. Schools have invested in Behavioral Threat Assessment (BTA) and Behavioral Threat Assessment Management (BTAM) processes to identify and intervene early. But even the best-trained team is only as effective as the visibility they have into risks.
From Awareness to Action: Stopping School Bullying
The challenge facing school leaders today isn’t simply awareness. Most educators understand bullying’s devastating impact. The task is to build systems that detect bullying early, respond effectively when incidents occur, and create environments where issues become less likely in the first place.
Stronger Together: Lightspeed Systems + Instagram for Safer Schools
We’re proud to announce a new collaboration with Instagram. Because helping keep students safe takes teamwork, and the challenges schools might face require all of us — technology providers, platforms, and educators — working together.
Solutions to Tardiness: Creating Real Support for Late Students (Part 2)
Many young people aren’t choosing to disrupt class or showing disrespect for education. They’re often managing challenges that would overwhelm many adults. The real challenge lies in developing effective, compassionate responses that address these root causes while maintaining the student’s connection to their educational community.
Solutions to Tardiness: Why Students Are So Late to School (Part 1)
Our two-part blog series on this topic will reveal the complex reality behind student tardiness in many schools. We cover the alarming connection between chronic lateness and long-term academic risk, and the innovative interventions that recognize tardiness as a symptom rather than a character flaw.
Secure Up to $1M in STOP Program Grant Funding
The Student, Teachers, and Officers Preventing (STOP) School Violence Program is one of the largest federal opportunities to strengthen K–12 safety. It’s designed to prevent student violence against themselves or others, equip schools with tools for early detection and intervention, and Expand access to anonymous reporting systems and safety technology
