GoGuardian

To help keep your child safer and more scholarly online, Westwood Regional School District adopts online services provided by GoGuardian. GoGuardian products are used in over 8,500 schools and 5,000 districts in the United States, supporting over 23 million students, and the Global Educator Institute has endorsed the GoGuardian Teacher products. GoGuardian’s web-based services operate on our school’s managed Google Workspace accounts (i.e. when a student is logged into Chrome or a Chromebook with his/her school email address).

We have chosen GoGuardian Teacher services to:

• Help protect students against harmful and inappropriate online material

• Help students stay “scholarly” and more focused when learning online

• Help assess students’ progress towards class assignments

• Facilitating communication between teachers and students during class time

We also use GoGuardian Beacon. GoGuardian Beacon helps notify WWRSD’s counselors and/or other school support staff if the system detects that a child searches, creates, views, or interacts with online content that could be related to suicide or self-harm, or potential harm to others. As a result of this, GoGuardian Beacon helps WWRSD identify and intervene when a child may be at risk of suicide or self-harm. It is important to know that neither WWRSD nor GoGuardian Beacon can possibly detect every situation when a child is suicidal. 

GoGuardian partners with school suicide prevention efforts in developing, designing, and supporting its GoGuardian Beacon product, including the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (a nationally-recognized not-for-profit organization dedicated to suicide prevention), and the American Association of Suicidology.

Parents/guardians continue to play a vital role in each child’s support network. Please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-TALK (8255)' or Text TALK to 741741 at the Crisis Text Line. Additionally, you can call 911 for an emergency. Please do not contact GoGuardian directly as GoGuardian does not offer mental health or emergency services.

GoGuardian collects certain personally identifiable information about your child. GoGuardian has consulted with privacy experts, participates in privacy organizations, is a proud signatory of the Student Privacy Pledge, and has been awarded certifications by iKeepSafe for complying with both the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act and California student privacy laws. For more detailed information about GoGuardian, you may visit GoGuardian’s website, Trust & Privacy Center, GoGuardian’s Product Privacy Policy, and the attached COPPA Notice and Disclosure Form.