Forbes magazine listed Marc Brackett's book Permission to Feel as one of the must-reads of 2019. In his book, Brackett lists four essential features for effective SEL (social and emotional learning) strategies. As School Day also includes SEL, we can't resist comparing our service to Brackett's list. "The best SEL approaches are systematic, no...
School performance and student wellbeing have been widely studied in education and psychology, but most often separately or individually in connection to other factors in learning. Little is known about their reciprocal effect. School Day focuses on the effect of wellbeing on learning. We give voice to students so that their wellbeing status b...
It is a pleasure to write about student wellbeing when there is something positive to report, and now there is! The wellbeing of middle school students has improved in many ways during the last ten years. This was discovered in a longitudinal study (Konu & Lintonen 2019) in which middle school students were asked questions about four areas of t...
Slush on maailman suurin startup-tapahtuma ja se tuo Helsinkiin vuosittain 25000 kuulijaa. Tänä vuonna meillä oli mahdollisuus esitellä tekoälypohjainen hyvinvointisovelluksemme Slushin mainospuhekisassa. Tällä videolla saat kolmessa minuutissa tietää, miten School Day pystyy tukemaan kouluhyvinvointia ympäri maailman.
We couldn't be more excited! We have been selected to participate in the First Round of the Slush 100 Pitching Competition! Slush is the leading startup event in the world bringing together 25,000 curious minds, including 4,000 startups and 2,000 investors. As far as we know, we are the only EdTech company among the 100 startups that will pitch tha...
This autumn School Day has traveled in Europe and the US discussing wellbeing with students, educators, tech developers and researchers. In Ireland we visited VSWare to discuss partnership and co-operation. In the US we have traveled both West Coast and East Coast meeting Superintendents, school and district leaders, potential partners and cre...
At Dare to Learn Festival this month School Day competed for GESAwards. Global EdTech Startup Awards is the world's largest EdTech startup competition with more than 2,500 applications from startups around the world, out of which a group of leading education innovation organizations will identify, showcase and recognize the world's most promising E...
School Day is teaming up with PowerSchool, a leading provider of K-12 education application technology supporting over 45 million students in over 70 countries. PowerSchool helps schools and districts efficiently manage instruction, learning, grading, attendance, assessment, analytics, state reporting, special education, student regi...
To kick off the fall term School Day team had a meeting with a group of wellbeing scientists at Helsinki University. Together with Katariina Salmela-Aro (Professor of Education at Helsinki University) and Ming-Te Wang (Professor of Education from the Motivation Center of the University of Pittsburgh) among others, we discussed the wellbeing phenome...
It was a year ago when first students started using our School Day Wellbeing Solution. During the past year, we have received a lot of feedback and ideas on how to further develop our model. Our network has grown in size and knowhow, and there have been huge investments in research and product development. Nevertheless, the best...
During the summer we have developed our wellbeing model further, both in content and in functionality. It now has hundreds of wellbeing questions for the students, and it includes altogether five wellbeing categories ranging from physical surroundings to social-emotional skills. Our AI is able to analyze the data effectively to support the schools ...
Municipalities and schools with a desire to understand and develop pedagogical solutions, remove barriers to learning and improve student wellbeing, are moving in the right direction. These schools have the ability to make decisions focusing on students and teachers by managing knowledge and information effectively. However, each school is differen...
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