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Comprehensive Security Systems: The Importance of Detecting, Communicating and Eliminating Threats to School Safety

As school safety continues to be a major national concern, having a high-caliber integrated mass notification system is becoming crucial to ensuring safety in the learning environment. While commonly assumed to be a single communication system, such as an intercom device, the most reliable mass notifications systems consist of a variety of safety and security components all working together. We’ve outlined the three steps to effectively identify, communicate and eliminate a potential threat to the safety and security of your staff and students.

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Balancing Safety in the K-12 Learning Environment

Originally published by IntelliSee™. As the COVID-19 crisis continues to dominate our world, protecting against mass or individual shootings may no longer be an organization’s highest profile priority. Unfortunately, changing headlines don’t mean the risks of a potentially catastrophic shooting situation have diminished.

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Detecting Danger in the Classroom: K-12 Smart Sensors

With school safety and security being a major concern in all schools, the ability to maximize accuracy and detection for potential dangerous situations with oftentimes limited manpower is crucial. As such, the implementation of smart sensor technologies in the school setting can relieve much of this burden from the shoulders of staff members, allowing them to focus more on classroom instruction rather than security concerns.

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The Importance of a Statewide Digital Learning Plan in K-12 Schools

With the widespread shift towards remote learning brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, many schools across the country are now facing a problem when it comes to equal access to education. While students with internet access are able to easily access these new online resources, those with less economically-fortunate situations are unable to receive the same quality of education due to a growing disparity in access to virtual learning technologies. Unfortunately, this disproportionately affects students in low-income neighborhoods, those with disabilities, and those in households with limited English comprehension, widening the already growing gap in access to education.

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Unified School Surveillance Systems Answers Concerns About School Safety During Reopenings

With the rise in both technological advancements and increase in school-place violence over the years, security and surveillance technologies have been at the forefront in school-place reformation plans. As Covid-19 has reshaped the future of the education system, further emphasis has been placed on pre-emptive screening measures of both staff and students as a means of preventing the spread of the novel coronavirus. The need to combat both medical and security-based threats has led to an increased focus on surveillance systems within the realm of education.

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Unified Safety and Security In Schools

With the rise in both technological advancements and increase in school-place violence over the years, security and surveillance technologies have been at the forefront in school-place reformation plans. As Covid-19 has reshaped the future of the education system, further emphasis has been placed on pre-emptive screening measures of both staff and students as a means of preventing the spread of the novel coronavirus

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How Will Schools Be Impacted by COVID-19?

In the era of Covid-19, industries across the globe are gearing up for a “new normal” once the country emerges from the lockdown stage of the pandemic. American public education, an already controversial subject prior to the novel coronavirus, is no exception. Here’s a look at how education will be impacted by Covid-19.

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Brookings: COVID-19 and school closures: What can countries learn from past emergencies?

As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads around the world, and across every state in the U.S., school systems are shutting their doors. To date, the education community has largely focused on the different strategies to continue schooling, including lively discussions on the role of education technology versus distribution of printed paper packets.

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