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5 Ways to Keep Your School Safe from Intruders

5 Ways to Keep Your School Safe from Intruders

At Eastern DataComm, we’ve covered ways to keep your school safe from intruders in past pieces. In this blog, we’re sharing an updated look at these issues, including five approaches you can take to keep your schools connected and protected. Improve your school’s safety and communications profile by reading along and implementing these recommendations. #1 […]

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10 Key Steps for Teachers and Administrators to Facilitate A Safe and Secure Lockdown: The 2023 Update

10 Key Steps for Teachers and Administrators to Facilitate a Safe and Secure Lockdown: the 2023 Update

Our nation continues to witness senseless violence in our schools. It’s more important than ever for administrators, faculty, law enforcement, parents, and guardians to work together to ensure the safety and security of their community’s students. In an earlier article, our team at Eastern DataComm explored what teachers can do in an emergency lockdown. This […]

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School Safety Lessons Learned from the 2022–2023 School Year

school safety lessons learned 2022-2023

While school shooting tragedies continue to flood the headlines of our local and national news outlets (with 16 school shootings this year alone), district stakeholders are doing what they can to prevent such incidents from occurring in their own school communities. And if you find yourself among those committed to making their school communities safer, […]

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6 Key Insights on Emergency Notification From Our Latest Live School Safety Seminar Series

6 Key Insights on Emergency Notification From Our Latest Live School Safety Seminar Series

Our Eastern DataComm team recently hosted a series of live, in-person seminars spanning New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, and Connecticut. School officials and stakeholders whose responsibility it is to ensure the safety of their campuses came from far and wide to join us for this educational experience. The series was incredibly well-received by our attendees […]

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Technology and the School Safety Ecosystem: Fostering Safer Schools

Technology and the School Safety Ecosystem: Fostering Safer Schools

There are a variety of channels that encompass the ‘safety ecosystem’ in schools. School safety and police officers, training, threat assessment, procedures and protocols for emergencies, compliance, and technology infrastructure essentials like emergency notification systems, video surveillance, and access control systems can all play a vital role in keeping schools and districts safe before, during, […]

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