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The Bradley County Schools system has implemented a new program to help keep children safe. TIPS: Threat Assessment, Incident Management and Prevention Services, an award‐winning web‐based risk management and incident reporting platform from Awareity. The TIPS platform is successfully being used in multiple school districts across the United States to identify, prevent and effectively intervene in threatening behaviors. TIPS provides an avenue for all students, parents, faculty, staff and community members to safely report disconcerting behaviors, suspicious incidents, or general safety/security concerns to school staff and the school resource officer, or SRO. Reporting may be made anonymously or openly. Concerns which may be reported include,Read More →

New Hampton School, a selective boarding school located in the in the foothills of New Hampshire’s White Mountains, has implemented Awareity’s TIPS platform to improve faculty and staff support and communications. Founded in 1821, New Hampton School has a philosophy based on two values: respect and responsibility. Healthy relationships between students and adults and educating the whole student are paramount in the community. In order to build those positive adult relationships, one of the School’s major initiatives has recently been to become one of the most desirable independent schools to work for. Through careful consideration of employee work load, targeted allocation of financial and non‐financialRead More →

As part of their No Such Thing as a Bully program and ongoing school safety efforts, Macklin School in Saskatchewan has launched TIPS, a web‐based incident reporting, incident management and prevention platform from Awareity. Students, staff, parents and community members all share the responsibility to create and maintain a safe school environment. TIPS equips Macklin School personnel to become aware of concerning behaviors and risk factors which may be harmful to the school environment and the community. If someone has information about activities that warrant concern for the safety of students, faculty or staff, the individual can simply access TIPS from the Macklin school’s websiteRead More →

Improved Threat Assessment, Incident Management and Prevention in a Changing World In an effort to improve and maintain student safety and violence prevention, the Diocese of Toledo Schools has launched an online risk management, incident reporting and prevention platform called TIPS. The TIPS platform equips all students, parents, faculty, staff and others to safely and anonymously or non‐anonymously report concerning behaviors and suspicious incidents. An award‐winning suite of web‐based risk management tools developed by the privately held organization Awareity, TIPS empowers individuals to anonymously report suspicious activities involving bullying, cyberbullying, weapons, drug/alcohol use, school vandalism, threats of violence, suicide risk, sexual harassment, abuse, truancy andRead More →

This year DA readers nominated a record number of products that have made a positive difference in their school districts. Awareity, the leading provider of risk management and prevention solutions for education, announced its TIPS incident management platform including the innovative Awareness Vault for professional development has been selected as a 2012 District Administration Readers’ Choice Top 100 Product. With more than 1,000 nominations this year, a new record, the winners were selected by the editors of District Administration and were based upon both the quantity of nominations and the quality of reader descriptions. The annual District Administration Readers’ Choice Top 100 Products award recognizesRead More →

In an effort to meet the requirements of the New Jersey’s Anti‐Bullying Bill of Rights and improve and maintain student safety, Freehold Borough School District is launching an online risk management, incident reporting and prevention platform called TIPS. The TIPS platform equips all students, parents, faculty, staff and others to safely and anonymously or non‐anonymously report concerning behaviors and suspicious incidents. An award‐winning suite of web‐based risk management tools developed by the privately held organization Awareity, TIPS empowers individuals to anonymously report suspicious activities and incidents involving bullying, cyberbullying, weapons, drug/alcohol use, school vandalism, threats of violence, suicide risk, sexual harassment, abuse, truancy and numerousRead More →

In order to ensure compliance with the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association’s (OSSAA) policies and rules, Tulsa Public Schools (TPS) has implemented the TIPS platform from Awareity. TIPS allows all TPS coaches and athletic department personnel to have on‐demand access to required compliance tests, athletic/student handbooks, consent forms, and more. With TIPS, the TPS Athletic Director Gil Cloud and staff can ensure all coaches have read and understand their individual roles and responsibilities for determining student scholastic eligibility, residence eligibility, student conduct, participation, recruiting, physical exams, etc. TIPS requires all coaches to login to a secure platform, review the OSSAA compliance manual, complete a testRead More →