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Summit 2020: It’s a Wrap!
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Return to Learn: Classroom Learning During COVID-19
This blog is part of our return to learn blog series. For part 1, focusing on the hybrid learning model, click here . Today’s guest is...
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Return to Learn: The Highs and Lows of Hybrid Learning
Guest: Natalie Hammond , Principal of a Connecticut Elementary School, Former Sandy Hook Educator & Survivor of the Tragedy Q: Why did...
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Summer Reads from the Safe and Sound Team
What’s summer without a good book? Sure, the beach makes it all better – ok who are we kidding, a lot better – but summer often lends...
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7 Web Chats to Help Schools and Families Manage “New Normals”
7 Web Chats to Help Schools and Families Manage “New Normals” The Tuesdays at the Table web chat series was created with the goal of...
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Finding Hope for Schools During a Time of Uncertainty
Ensuring the safety of a school community is a tough job under normal circumstances–and these past 6 months have been anything but...
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Helping Children And Teens Cope With Social Isolation
Social isolation can come in many forms. More often than not, it’s caused by illness. The current pandemic has brought about a new form...
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Celebrations In Stride: Students and Schools Celebrate Creatively This Year
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When a Teacher or Classmate Dies: Helping Students Grieve When COVID-19 Prevents Physical Gathering
It is not unprecedented that a teacher, school employee, or student may die when school is not in session; summer break is one example....
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Good Days Today, Good Days Ahead
Last year, Safe and Sound Schools launched The Good Days Tour, a nationwide contest to promote positive school culture in high schools...
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Suddenly Schooling from Home for a Family With Autism
Q and A with Michele Gay I overheard a conversation the other day in the grocery store (from a distance of course) where one...
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Anxiety Check – Keeping Kids Safe and Sound In a Time of Crisis
With the recent onset of Covid-19 both nationwide and globally, anxiety is on the rise. With so many unknowns, how do we help our kids...
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Join us in Connecting #StudentsToSeniors!
Like everybody else, I am working hard to adjust to the new normal to keep my family and community safe through the current crisis. “Stay...
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Navigating the New Normal: Simple Steps to Create Routines for Your Kids…and You
Navigating the New Normal: Simple Steps to Create Routines for Your Kids…and You Safe and Sound Schools’ Co-Founder, Alissa Parker...
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“Losing School” – Lessons to Remember on an Important Anniversary
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Status Solutions Renews Sponsorship with Safe and Sound Schools Through 2021
Status Solutions affirms its continued support for Safe and Sounds Schools to increase public awareness of safety and security in...
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Q&A with Julia Cook, Award-Winning School Counselor and Children’s Author
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2019 Year-End Review
January quickly came and went and the year is off to a great start as we prepare for the 2020 National Summit on School Safety ! Today,...
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How Will You Remember? Marking Seven Years Since the Sandy Hook Tragedy
What are you doing this year for the anniversary ? Where will you be? Is “anniversary” even the right word? These questions begin to rise...
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A Message from our Founders
On the morning of December 14th, 2012, we were simply parents — two stay-at-home moms who loved our children deeply. By that night, we...
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