Collection: Student Safety, Mental Health & Civil Rights

Do you have students experiencing grief? Learn how to help them recover and focus on school.  You can apply proven tactics to help these students recover and learn without inadvertently triggering them in the classroom. Optimal strategies to foster focus...

Vaping At School Is Back. Stop It! Learn How To Control This Problem. Upon returning to in-person learning, students have resumed vaping everywhere, from bathroom stalls to stadium bleachers to the back row of English class. Although JUUL has fallen...

Ransomware: Learn How to Keep Your District’s Systems and Data Safe On September 3, 2020 Los Angeles Unified School District discovered a ransomware attack that “temporarily disabled systems, froze others and had access to some degree of data.” If the...

How Are You Using Police at Your School? Determine What Presence is Necessary Today. As you balance community sentiment with student safety, you need to understand if law enforcement officers make schools safer or escalate disciplinary incidents and lead to...

Do Your Student-Athletes Have Mental Health Challenges? Learn How to Help Them Legally. Recent events have focused attention on the mental health issues unique to students involved in competitive sports. The combination of academics and athletics can cause stress. Your...

How Do You Help Students With Social-Emotional Learning Needs? Students with social-emotional challenges are particularly vulnerable at the beginning of a new school year. They may find it hard to cope with feelings, set goals, or be unsuccessful at resolving...

Was Your Student in Juvenile Detention? Learn How to Help Them Readapt to School Students who have been in juvenile detention have fallen behind and often struggle to excel in school. You can apply proven tactics to help these students...

Don’t Allow Violence at Your School: Learn the Specific Steps You Must Take Now The deadly surge in violence has affected schools regardless of demographics. With more teachers and staff also reporting an increase in threats and attacks, your campus...

Your Latino Students Fell Behind – Help Them! It is time to evaluate your teaching practices and take immediate action to assist your Latino students. As the nation focuses on antiracism and inclusion, families and the community demand that schools...

Are Any of Your Students Homeless? Learn How to Help Them Excel at School. At the beginning of the new semester, you may see students who are homeless falling behind their peers. Pandemic-induced learning loss has hurt all students, leaving...

Do You Have New Students in Foster Care? Learn How to Help Them Excel at School. Students in foster care can quickly fall behind when the school year has barely started. Pandemic-induced learning loss has hurt all students, leaving those...

How Do You Help Students With Trauma/PTSD? Discover How To Accommodate Students. As the 2022-23 school year gets underway, it’s an ideal time to consider the challenges students suffering from trauma or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can face. They may...