DigiSafe Schools
We kept seeing the same gap in classrooms; teachers expected to teach digital skills they have never been trained in themselves. Between our time with the scouts at the schools while teaching on online safety, it became clear that gap was not just about skills, it was about safety too. As Rover Scouts, the instinct was to organize a response, not just point at the problem. That is what became DigiSafe Schools.
We pulled together Rover Scouts and volunteers with real technical backgrounds and ran school visits with three parts: hands-on digital skills for learners, coaching sessions for teachers on the CBC technology content, and online-safety training. We made sure teachers left with materials they could reteach from. From there we grew county by county, mostly self-funded, refining the model and training more volunteers as we went.
A single visit does not change much; follow-up only worked once we named a technology lead at each school. We also learned to slow down teacher sessions, since volunteers often assumed more baseline knowledge than teachers had. On the safety side, interactive, scenario-based sessions engaged kids far more than lecture-style warnings. And logistically, we learned to plan visits around the school calendar, not ours.
