American Time School Blog

School clock systems are reliable. They can keep perfect time for years as long as you perform regular maintenance on them. But when they go down, getting them fixed in a quick and efficient way is important for schools to stay “on the clock.”

Here's how to perform maintenance checks to prevent fire drill repairs and ways to fix your clock system if something does go wrong.

You don't have to strain your imagination to see how being late to class can impact students' academic performance. Tardiness means missed instructional time during critical classes when lessons are introduced and announcements are made. And not to be overlooked is the disruption that late arrivals can cause across an entire classroom.

While they may suffer academically, chronically tardy students do get good at one thing: coming up with excuses, which can be as simple as, “I lost track of the time.” One way to eliminate that pitfall is to install a synchronized time system with a Bell Countdown digital clocks.

Running late can set a negative tone for an entire day and easily disrupt your focus. A simple way to stay prompt is to have a reliable timepiece. Similar to the watch on your wrist, a master clock system is vital to keeping everyone in school on-time and focused on learning. Here are some of the benefits of installing a master clock system in your school.

To help keep students and teachers on time and lessons taught as planned, it is vital that the bells and clock systems be synchronized to the same time.  So when the clock strikes 12pm and a bell should go off, it does so right on the dot.

There are many advantages to a wireless clock system. One of the most critical is the ability to operate a lot of different systems all from a central computer screen in synchronized harmony. How does the system make school bells (or anything else) ring on time? We can thank the magic of wireless relays, which can turn just about anything on and off when you need them.

How many times have you heard “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure?” The expression’s been around since Benjamin Franklin wrote it in the 1730s and I just heard it several times while visiting with a school customer about protective guards and tamper-resistant security brackets.