District Leadership Teams: Effective Student Wellness Monitoring with Securly Aware
District leadership teams are under pressure like never before. As you seek ways to effectively support your students, often with limited staff resources, it’s easy to feel like you’re always one step behind. To meet this challenge, many districts are turning to edtech solutions to help them monitor student wellness and identify indicators of self-harm, suicide, bullying, violence, and emotional distress in students’ online activities.
But not all student wellness monitoring platforms are created equal. Most flood staff with alerts of concerning activities, but fall short of providing tools for managing those alerts. This all-too-common scenario can leave your student support teams feeling more overwhelmed than in control.
Securly Aware Student Wellness Monitoring
That’s where Securly Aware student wellness monitoring stands apart. Unlike traditional student monitoring that focuses on individual flagged activities, Securly Aware takes a student-centered approach.
By providing a holistic view of each student’s wellness, Securly Aware helps school staff see beyond flagged activities. It gives them a deeper, more actionable view of student wellness, along with the tools to respond effectively, even with limited resources.
Wellness Levels Offer a Holistic Understanding of Student Wellbeing
Not all students in distress will trigger high-risk alerts; some quietly signal their struggles over time. Securly Aware’s Wellness Levels offer a 60-day rolling view of a student’s emotional well-being, continuously updated based on the risks associated with their digital activities. By giving your team deeper insights beyond one-off alerts, Wellness Levels empower staff to:
- Identify issues and intervene earlier, before a crisis occurs
- Triage support effectively over time, reducing the number of critical cases
- Monitor wellness levels after support is provided
Advanced Detection Ensures More Accurate Alerts and Less Noise
Most tools to monitor student wellness rely heavily on keyword detection. But keyword analysis alone creates alert fatigue by generating too many false positives.
Securly Aware goes beyond keywords, integrating natural language processing (NLP), sentiment analysis, and image analysis into its advanced AI analysis of students’ online activities. Able to analyze the tone, context, and emotional nuance, Securly Aware produces more reliable and accurate alerts so your team’s time is focused on what matters most.
Integrated Case Management Keeps Students from Falling through the Cracks
Student monitoring is best known for its ability to alert school staff to signs of distress. This alerting process is critical, but it puts the focus on flagged activities instead of the students at risk. Securly Aware goes further, automatically creating a new case for each alert.
Case management in Securly Aware helps busy student services teams coordinate their response efforts and maintain a centralized record of all cases, so no student slips through the cracks. They’re able to quickly identify students who are at risk, investigate and intervene if needed, assign cases to specific team members, track each case from inception to resolution, and maintain thorough and accessible records. Every note, every flag, every follow-up is captured in a centralized student record.
Preventative Tools Help Students In the Moment
Student monitoring software is a powerful tool to help prevent child and adolescent suicide, self-harm, bullying, and violence. AI-powered student wellness monitoring software that also provides automated interventions takes prevention a step further. Securly Aware provides two powerful prevention tools to help students make better decisions in the moment and know they’re not alone:
- Think Twice bullying prevention detects hurtful language in messages as they’re being written and prompts students to “think twice” before they hit send. Watch the video.
- Wellness Pathways Widget intervention detects increasingly concerning online activities and automatically presents the student with a pop-up message in their web browser to offer support and links to helpful resources.
AI Observation Assistant Integrates Teacher Insights for a Comprehensive View of Student Wellbeing
Even teacher observations are added to the student’s case in Securly Aware. The AI Observation Assistant prompts teachers to share their insights about students’ physical appearance, behaviors, and other safety and wellness indicators. It then adds these to a student’s existing case or creates a new case if one doesn’t already exist. With Securly Aware, school support teams have all of the information they need in one place, so they can conduct investigations quickly and offer students the support they need.
Granular Contact Management Ensures No Alert Is Missed
Your student services team’s ability to monitor student wellness and respond to students who need support is critical. With granular contact management in Securly Aware, you can assign the right staff members to the right students based on roles, responsibilities, and availability. This flexibility empowers your team to respond quickly and efficiently, even with lean resources. Launching later this year, granular contact management makes it possible to:
- Import contacts directly from Securly Sync
- Map student support contacts by alert category and student wellness level
- Assign preferred contact methods for staff members (SMS, email, or phone)
- Schedule staff for specific shifts
Delegated Alert Management Provides an Extra Layer of Protection and Peace of Mind
If you have limited resources during the school day or want 24/7 coverage of alert management, Securly On-Call provides expert management and analysis of Securly Aware alerts. Staffed 24/7/365 by an expertly trained team of former educators, counselors, and clinicians, Securly On-Call analyzes incoming alerts and notifies designated school personnel of extreme-risk situations in under five minutes. Native Spanish speakers are also available to provide bilingual support.
Conclusion
Securly Aware student wellness monitoring is designed to help school districts like yours support your students more effectively, even with limited resources. By providing a holistic view of student wellbeing, advanced detection, integrated case management, preventative tools, AI observation assistant, granular contact management, and delegated alert management, Securly Aware empowers your team to respond quickly and efficiently to student needs.
FAQs
Q: How does Securly Aware differ from other student wellness monitoring platforms?
A: Securly Aware takes a student-centered approach, providing a holistic view of each student’s wellbeing and tools to respond effectively, even with limited resources.
Q: What does Securly Aware’s Wellness Levels feature offer?
A: Wellness Levels provide a 60-day rolling view of a student’s emotional well-being, continuously updated based on the risks associated with their digital activities.
Q: How does Securly Aware’s Advanced Detection feature ensure accurate alerts and less noise?
A: Advanced Detection integrates natural language processing (NLP), sentiment analysis, and image analysis to analyze the tone, context, and emotional nuance of students’ online activities.
Q: What is Securly On-Call, and how does it support student wellness monitoring?
A: Securly On-Call provides expert management and analysis of Securly Aware alerts, 24/7/365, and notifies designated school personnel of extreme-risk situations in under five minutes.
