Back to School Series – How Educators can Fight Systemic Racism in School 👊🏻👊🏼👊🏽👊🏾👊🏿

The murder of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, Islamophobic attacks against Muslims in London, Hamilton, and Edmonton, and anti-Asian hate crimes – These incidents have erupted global attention to systemic racism during the pandemic. How can we be sure our children don’t fear being targeted by their religion, race or ethnicity going back to school […]

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Back to School Series – SEL Strategies to Ease the Back-to-School Transition 🙇‍♀️🙇‍♂️

Preparing kids to go back to school is not easy by all means. And when you think of it, why would it be? After an incredibly hard school year, many moms and dads are feeling confident about sending their children back to school. However, many are also skeptical about the challenges students will face as

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Back to School Series: What Schools and Teachers can do to Support Children’s Transition Amid COVID-19 👩🏻‍🏫🍎

Come fall, kids will be back in school where they will have to face pandemic regulations and safeguarding practices including COVID-19 vaccines, social distancing, and mask-wearing. With children and parents having experienced major disruptions in their daily life, we are hopeful that opening schools will not only bring a little bit of normalcy back into

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Back to School Series: How to Manage Back-to-School Anxiety After Remote Learning 📚✏️

Going back to school after a year of remote learning can be very stressful for kids and parents. It’s safe to say that this year has had its fair shares of highs and lows when it comes to our mental, physical, emotional and even developmental wellbeing. With the return to school just around the corner, never have parents had such mixed feelings about this simple question – Do

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7 Ways to Promote Mental Health Awareness in Schools

It may be daunting to broach the subject of mental health and students, but there’s reason to be optimistic: 70% of mental health cases that appear in children can be addressed through early intervention. Getting ahead of mental health disorders and offering support to those who need it helps at-risk students before their mental health issues become more serious. The good news? There are a multitude of ways to do just that.

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Bringing an End to Bullying

At one point bullying used to be much different than what it is now. It used to take the form of shoving someone on the playground, picking someone last to be on your dodgeball team, or not making room at your table in the cafeteria. But in today’s world, bullying takes on a whole other

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Rising Suicide Rates During the Pandemic – Here’s how Netsweeper can Help

It’s no surprise that there is concern that the COVID-19 pandemic can harm people’s health physically, emotionally, and even psychologically. After one year of COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions, it has become more apparent that the pandemic is having a severe toll on our mental health. Even more sobering is the fact that everything is so

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Online Predators Are on the Rise During COVID-19 – Some Tips on How to Keep Your Children Safe

How often have you felt distracted, occupied, or even disconnected from those in your household, and not think it was a big deal? Pay attention parents! You may think that your children are safer now than ever because of the stay-at-home order and travel restrictions, but in reality, they are more susceptible to an even

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Netsweeper Helping Trading with Schools Manage Internet Access for 51,000 Staff and Students

Trading with Schools (TwS) is a department within Bristol City Council which brings services across the council into one trading unit, to better support the changing needs and requirements of schools and educational settings. Netsweeper helped the Trading with Schools department manage internet access for 51,000 staff and students across 130 educational sites in the

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Providing Link2ICT with Safe and Secure Web Access for Children

We asked Matthew Coleman-Hamilton from Link2ICT to share their experience with using Netsweeper.  How can Netsweeper help your business?  As part of our business, we provide schools with Internet connectivity and we are an education ISP. The cornerstone of our service is appropriate education web filtering for that school. Netsweeper helps us to deliver that to schools – safe, secure, fast web access

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The Cyber Risks of Remote Learning: What Students and Teachers Need to Know

Cyber risks have grown more prevalent since organizations across all industries migrated to the online sphere. The educational sector is no exception to the risk. In August and September of last year, the number of ransomware attacks aimed at K-12 education made up 57% of all reported ransomware incidents — a huge jump from the

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