The Lightspeed Blog

Learn about upcoming events, K-12 edtech insights, back-to-school tips, student mental health resources, software implementation and utilization, and more, from the experts at Lightspeed on the Lightspeed Systems® blog.
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Protecting Student Data Privacy as a Guiding EdTech Principle

Within K-12 education, there is no greater priority than student welfare. Student welfare is the mission that brought so many of us to the space. Everything else pales in comparison.

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From High to Low: Use Lightspeed Alert’s New Monitoring Preferences Feature to Choose Alert Levels

Lightspeed Alert™ scans vast amounts of information and flags potentially concerning text or images, creating alerts that district and school staff then follow up on in the real world.

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8 Tips to Make Web Content Filtering More Effective at Your School

Lightspeed Systems has been a leader in the web content filtering category for over twenty years, and when you have been in a space for that long, you uncover a

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20 Ways Teachers Save Time with Lightspeed Classroom Management™

With the mass proliferation of digital learning tools in recent years, digital distractions run rampant.Educators need to ensure students use them properly to advance their learning.

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Digital Equity & Ensuring All Students Succeed

Technology-enabled education has been on an upward trend for well over a decade. The global COVID-19 pandemic only accelerated the adoption by school districts across the entire K-12 spectrum.

7 Strategies to Improve Student Safety with Technology

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Lightspeed Alert™ Adds Powerful New Machine Learning Capabilities to Increase Accuracy

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What is Generative AI and Why is it Important to Educators?

While sometimes feared, technology is often a perfect match for us humans. Technology, of course, is dependent on humans creating it.

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From Divide to Connectivity: Tackling Internet Disparities in Communities through Neighborhood-Level Data

Real-time data can reveal patterns in specific neighborhoods or regions where K12 students consistently face poor (or no) internet access when off-campus.