Building School Environments Where Students Actually Reach Out
Every educator has encountered students who clearly need support but never ask for it. They sit silently through struggles that could be addressed, avoid eye contact when problems escalate, and sometimes disappear entirely rather than seek assistance.
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
The Power of Words: Supporting Students Through Journaling, Context, and Compassion
Public campaigns and visible support are vital, but some of the most powerful signs of student struggle (and hope) appear quietly, tucked away in digital journals and Google Docs. By tuning into the words and context students use in these private spaces, we gain deeper insight into their emotional worlds and can provide more meaningful support.
Lightning Chat Episode 8: Student Reporting in the Era of Cell Phone-Free Schools
Today, I was joined by the insightful Erika Johnson, Strategic Account Manager and a veteran building leader with 25 years of experience in Wisconsin schools. Together, we tackled a topic that’s rapidly reshaping the landscape of school safety: how student reporting is evolving as cell phone-free education takes hold.
Lightning Chat Episode 7: Takeaways from UK State of Student Safety Report
Hey everyone, Colin McCabe (General Manager, International) here from Lightspeed. Shaun Phillips, our EMEA Sales Director, and I just recorded Lightning Chat Episode 7, where we dug into the UK Student Safety Report. It combines national data with insights from our Lightspeed Alert™ and Lightspeed StopIt™ tools to highlight the risks kids face today…
