American Time School Blog

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.

We are proud to announce that our EverAlert® communications platform has earned another award, most recently being named a “2017 Top Product” by Christian School Products! 

When there’s an emergency in a school, efficiency and communication become paramount. Working hand-in-hand with the deployment of better emergency notifications is the utilization of high definition visual displays, like the EverAlert Emergency Communication Platform.

Remember the school fire drills when you were a kid? Typically, school officials were strategically located throughout the building, barking out evacuation orders as students and teachers streamed out of classrooms.

Schools face a challenge when it comes to emergency protocol planning. Each school is different — the floorplans are different, the geographic locations are different, the distance from the local police station is different — and so each school has to develop its own emergency protocols based on best practices.

To be a successful coach, manager or teacher, you must be able to clearly convey messages to the groups you want to motivate. You must also recognize that some individuals or small groups may need to be communicated to differently in order to understand that message and act on it. This same concept is being used by schools that need to send important messages to everyone in a building. Integrated school communications systems are like good leaders: They can send one message to all, yet tailor it to specific groups, so everyone can understand and act towards a single result.

When we think of smart technology, the first devices that may come to mind are smart phones, tablets and notebooks. Well, you can add school clock systems to that list. New technology surrounding these systems means that keeping time and keeping kids safe is now one bundled solution that falls under the smart technology umbrella. 

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.

What do school buses, sidewalk patrols, caring adults and clocks all have in common? Believe it or not, all help contribute to safety at schools. Although clocks may seem to be the less obvious reason, here's how a synchronized system of clocks can help keep students safe during the school day.

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.