Understanding the MTSS Tiered Framework
What is MTSS? It’s never been easy to be a kid, and a persuasive argument can be made that it’s as difficult as ever in today’s technology-enabled environment. As primary and secondary sc…
Webinar Review: Confronting the New Reality of Today’s Student Mental Health Crisis
What is your school district’s biggest student mental health and well-being challenge? Is it staffing and resource shortages? District liability concerns? Perhaps it’s an inability to keep up…
Webinar Review: Confronting the New Reality of Todays Student Mental Health Crisis
What is your school district’s biggest student safety and wellness challenge?Is it staffing and resource shortages? District liability concerns? Together.” campaign.
What Texas School Districts Need to Know About the SCOPE Act (Texas House Bill No. 18)
On June 13, 2023, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed Texas House Bill No. 18, the Securing Children Online through Parental Empowerment Act, also known as the SCOPE Act. The SCOPE Act requires c…
From High to Low: Use Lightspeed Alert’s New Monitoring Preferences Feature to Choose Alert Levels
Lightspeed Alert™ scans vast amounts of information and flags potentially concerning text or images, creating alerts that district and school staff then follow up on in the real world.
7 Strategies to Improve Student Safety with Technology
September is National Suicide Prevention Month, and throughout the month, mental health advocates, prevention organizations, survivors, allies, and community members will unite to promote suici…
Lightspeed Alert™ Adds Powerful New Machine Learning Capabilities to Increase Accuracy
From violence and thoughts of death in Hamlet to the dramatic double suicide at the end of Romeo and Juliet, the works of Shakespeare are filled with troubling themes. Student assignments about…
Can’t Hire Enough Mental Health Staff? Get Help with Edtech
With soaring rates of mental health challenges among children and teens, leading pediatric health experts have declared a national emergency in child and adolescent mental health.
How to Use Technology to Prevent School Bullying
Prevent School Bullying with Lightspeed Alert Bullying and cyberbullying continue to be prevalent in K-12 schools. In fact, 90% of students in Grades 4-8 report that they have been bullie…
Prevent Cyberbullying and Violence in School with Lightspeed Alert
Half of students identify as victims of cyberbullying.
