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School safety begins with student wellbeing
Amy Grosso brings counseling and district leadership experience to the practical work of school safety. At Raptor Technologies, she connects student wellbeing with earlier support, and hosts conversations with the people responsible for safer school communities.
Dr. Amy Grosso
Director, Expert in Residence · Raptor Technologies
Student wellbeing, early intervention and school safetyPage settings
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School Safety Today
With Chris Noell & Will Durgin
In this episode of School Safety Today, host Dr. Amy Grosso speaks with Chris Noell, Chief Product Officer at Raptor Technologies, and Will Durgin, Director of Student Well-Being, about the vision behind StudentSafe and how it helps schools move from reactive responses to proactive student support. Together, they emphasize that safer schools depend on giving staff the tools to identify patterns early, coordinate support effectively, and protect sensitive student information while making informed decisions.
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In this episode of School Safety Today, host Dr. Amy Grosso speaks with Chris Noell, Chief Product Officer at Raptor Technologies, and Will Durgin, Director of Student Well-Being, about the vision behind StudentSafe and how it helps schools move from reactive responses to proactive student support. Together, they emphasize that safer schools depend on giving staff the tools to identify patterns early, coordinate support effectively, and protect sensitive student information while making informed decisions.
Published articleChris Noell · Guest · Chief Product Officer / Will Durgin · Guest · Director of Student Wellbeing
Original on MarketScale ↗Principles of Change
With Tim Dykes
School safety includes the physical systems that protect a building and the relationships that make people feel they belong inside it. On Principles of Change, host Dr. Amy Grosso talks with Tim Dykes, introduced as assistant principal for culture and climate at York High School in Elmhurst Community Unit School District 205 in Illinois. Their conversation examines how a school leader can work on both responsibilities while resisting pressure to change everything immediately.
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School safety includes the physical systems that protect a building and the relationships that make people feel they belong inside it. On Principles of Change, host Dr. Amy Grosso talks with Tim Dykes, introduced as assistant principal for culture and climate at York High School in Elmhurst Community Unit School District 205 in Illinois. Their conversation examines how a school leader can work on both responsibilities while resisting pressure to change everything immediately.
Published articleTim Dykes · Guest · Assistant Principal for Culture and Climate
Original on MarketScale ↗School Safety Today
With Michelle Dawn Mooney
In today’s episode of School Safety Today by Raptor Technologies, host Michelle Dawn Mooney sat down with Dr. Amy Grosso, Mental Health Consultant, to shed light on this vital issue. The pair discussed comprehensively saving young lives and a school’s role in youth suicide prevention.
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In today’s episode of School Safety Today by Raptor Technologies, host Michelle Dawn Mooney sat down with Dr. Amy Grosso, Mental Health Consultant, to shed light on this vital issue. The pair discussed comprehensively saving young lives and a school’s role in youth suicide prevention.
Published articleMichelle Dawn Mooney · Host
Original on MarketScale ↗School Safety Today
With Shannon Jenkins
In today's episode of School Safety Today by Raptor Technologies, join host Dr. Amy Grosso as she sits down with Shannon Jenkins, M.Ed., Coordinator of Mental Health at Thompson School District in Loveland, Colorado. Together, they delve into the crucial topic of supporting staff wellbeing within educational settings.
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In today's episode of School Safety Today by Raptor Technologies, join host Dr. Amy Grosso as she sits down with Shannon Jenkins, M.Ed., Coordinator of Mental Health at Thompson School District in Loveland, Colorado. Together, they delve into the crucial topic of supporting staff wellbeing within educational settings.
Published articleShannon Jenkins · Guest · Coordinator of Mental Health
Original on MarketScale ↗THE RECORD
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Published conversations and appearances featuring Amy, with hosting and guest roles identified for each work. Alternate audio and video editions are grouped where they represent the same conversation. Each item links to its original publication.
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Let everyone raise a concern without opening every case
Dr. Amy Grosso, in conversation with Chris Noell and Will Durgin
Grosso uses a bus driver to explain the difference between noticing a change and investigating it. Any employee may need a way to report a concern; access to the student’s wider case should follow the person’s responsibilities. That separation lets a school involve more observers while controlling who sees sensitive context.
Discussion prompt
Separate permission to submit a concern from permission to read or manage a case.
Make student support work visible in resource decisions
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When Grosso oversaw social workers, she knew their value but still needed evidence to defend their work when budgets tightened. She argues for giving student wellbeing the kind of usable data schools already have for academics, so staffing and support decisions reflect what is happening to students.
Discussion prompt
Choose measures that explain the work and the need for support, rather than collecting data without a decision in mind.
Build with the people who will use the system
Dr. Amy Grosso, reflecting on district participation in product research
Grosso recalls contributing to focus groups while she still worked in a district. In the StudentSafe discussion, she draws attention to the choice to involve an educator in product development and to gather school input before launch. Her example makes practitioner participation a concrete design step.
Discussion prompt
Include school staff in development research and test assumptions against their actual work.
Let students help define the expectations
Dr. Amy Grosso, reflecting on Tim Dykes’s student-led work
After Tim Dykes describes working with students on shared school expectations, Grosso points to the buy-in that participation creates. An administrator could write the expectations alone, she observes, but involving students connects the rules to the activities and culture that follow. Dykes’s York High School program supplies the example.
Discussion prompt
Invite a representative group of students to shape expectations before turning them into a schoolwide slogan.
Keep relationships central at every school size
Dr. Amy Grosso · Principles of Change
Grosso compares Dykes’s large high school with a previous conversation about a middle school in a town of roughly 1,200 people. The settings differ, but she identifies shared priorities: relationships, student engagement and helping every student feel safe and included. Her comparison keeps the work connected to students even when the operating scale changes.
Discussion prompt
When adapting a safety approach to a different school size, identify how it will preserve relationships and student participation.
GO A LITTLE DEEPER
Questions these conversations answer.
Give belonging a longer planning horizon
Grosso asks Dykes how leaders balance urgent, visible safety measures with the slower work of building belonging. A fence is a concrete completed task; students’ sense of connection may take longer to develop. Her question gives leaders a useful distinction when planning what can change immediately and what needs sustained attention.
Dr. Amy Grosso, asking Tim Dykes about long-term school cultureDiscussion prompt
Separate immediate safety tasks from longer-term culture goals, and decide how each will be followed over time.
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BACKGROUND & EXPERIENCE
About Amy.
Director, Expert in Residence
Raptor Technologies
Connect on LinkedIn ↗Grosso holds a PhD in Counseling and Counselor Education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. At Round Rock ISD, she led the creation of the Behavioral Health Services Department and worked on threat assessment, suicide prevention protocols and collaboration between social workers and school police.
As Director, Expert in Residence at Raptor Technologies, she advises schools on integrating student wellbeing into safety. Her School Safety Today and Principles of Change conversations bring together educators, mental health specialists and safety leaders to examine how support works in daily school life.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
- Earlier career
Built district behavioral health services
Led the creation of the Behavioral Health Services Department at Round Rock ISD and worked on threat assessment and suicide prevention protocols.
- Current role
Director, Expert in Residence
Advises schools on integrating student wellbeing into safety at Raptor Technologies.
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