Spring and early summer bring some of the most meaningful moments in school life. Commencement, moving-up ceremonies, field days, and end-of-year celebrations are moments of pride for students, families, faculty, and staff. They are also moments when the school’s normal operating environment changes. For a few hours, the school may have more people on campus than usual, unfamiliar guests, altered traffic patterns, temporary seating, outdoor staging, vendors, deliveries, rides

What Educators Should Notice, Document, and Report With a Supportive Care Team Lens Schools do not need to be tech experts to reduce digital risk. They do need a shared understanding of how modern platforms can enable anonymous threats, concealed communications, grooming, or exploitation, and how educators can respond in a way that is consistent, defensible, and supportive. Students’ online worlds change fast. Concerning behavior can appear on familiar social media, but also

New York’s newly enacted Jack Reid Law has made one thing unmistakably clear for independent schools: bullying is no longer just a matter of culture and values; it is now also a matter of statute. The law requires nonpublic schools to have clear policies, reporting pathways, and investigation practices when bullying and harassment occur. That is important and overdue. But for independent schools that pride themselves on knowing students deeply, the real question is larger: Wh

Recently, several schools reported receiving a threatening email from an anonymous account, claiming planted devices and compromised IT...