Are you safeguarding your students?
As we proactively manage a student's non-academic needs, we 'safeguard' their learning - we keep them on the path to success!
Let's Talk SafeguardingWhat is Safeguarding?
When we 'safeguard' students, we take care of them, protect them from harm, address their vulnerabilities and proactively manage their non-academic needs.
We deliberately support student engagement by mitigating those factors that keep children distracted from their learning. As a safeguarding company, we provide the training and software tools needed to do this for each and every student.
Begin with the end in mind
Read our Education Week white paper providing an in-depth look at Safeguarding in action—including its history, impact and resources for schools and districts.
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Chronically absent students are 7.4 times more likely to drop out. (Utah Education Policy Centre)
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Died from abuse and neglect in 2019 (ASPCC Report)
21%
Of 2020 high school students could benefit from school-based mental health services. (EdWeek)
How can you manage students' non-academic needs?
Teachers and administrators are both professionally and legally obligated to report abuse when they see it. But this isn’t safeguarding as it only covers the most egregious of concerns. What about bullying, racism, sexism, self-harm, injury, neglect, hunger, abuse at home or online, or a variety of additional critical social-emotional needs?
MYCONCERN®, built by The Safeguarding Company, proactively manages these non-academic student needs.
How can you apply educational equity?
When students receive an equitable education, they are respected as a whole child inclusive of their identity and unique learning needs. This includes the non-academic challenges that a child may face. Not every student needs personal attention every day. But when a student disengages—perhaps because of a racist incidence, a scuffle with a bully, or stress because of issues at home—that student needs the support of the school.
Not all students show up with the same challenges, but an equitable school proactively provides individual interventions to each and every student based on need. This is fundamental safeguarding. MyConcern is a software tool, built by The Safeguarding Company, that proactively applies educational equity for the benefit of each and every student, inclusive of their diverse identity.
How can you use technology to support student wellbeing?
Safeguarding with MYCONCERN® can be a simple but powerful process that supports students within their needs. By strategically implementing safeguarding with experience-based training, assigning safeguarding leads at the school and district, embedding proactive measures in the classroom, and using the proven MYCONCERN® software, educators can effectively manage the wellbeing concerns students present.
With the easy-to-use MYCONCERN® app, teachers, administrators, counselors, lunch workers, bus drivers, and all other staff members can report and document observed student concerns. This concern flows up to the school’s assigned safeguarding lead who uses MYCONCERN® to track, analyze, assign follow-up and manage these student concerns. These efforts can be reported, audited, redacted, disaggregated and analyzed for lessons learned going forward.
Safeguarding with MYCONCERN® efficiently organizes the school's response that gets students the help they need early on so they can re-engage with their learning.
Safeguarding with MYCONCERN®
Keep Students Safe
Protect your students from abuse, harm and neglect
Educational Outcomes
Ensures students achieve the very best educational outcomes
Educational Equity
Manages the tasks of educational equity
Saves Time
Avoids time-consuming administrative processes
Trend Spotting
Spots signs or trends at the school or district level in real time – allowing you to respond proactively
Easy Reporting
Easily reports and records with a visible audit trail
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