08/12/20 - BETTER KIDS AND PANORAMA EDUCATION PARTNER TO PROVIDE DIGITAL AND REMOTE LEARNING-FRIENDLY SEL LESSONS

Better Kids Partners With Panorama Education To Provide Schools And Districts With A Set of Interactive Games and Practice Activities To Foster Social Emotional Learning Skills In Both In-Person And Remote Learning Environments

BOSTON - Better Kids today partners with Panorama Education to support schools and districts with interactive games and practice activities that foster social emotional learning during COVID-19.

Each year, hundreds of schools, and thousands of educators and parents across the country use the Better Kids app Wisdom: The World of Emotions to help build children’s emotion regulation, empathy, and responsible decision-making skills through interactive gameplay. 

Now, practitioners can explore a variety of social-emotional learning activities conducive to both in-person and distance learning from Better Kids on Playbook, Panorama Education’s online professional learning library that equips practitioners and school leaders with strategies for creating a positive school climate and implementing SEL in K-12 classrooms. This new set of resources from Better Kids includes digital-friendly activities to practice mindfulness and build a sense of belonging in classrooms.

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Better Kids is an innovative organization developing children's social emotional skills through evidence-based play. Their unique pedagogy is based on integrated digital and hands-on games, combining adaptive learning and group activities.

The activities from Better Kids on Playbook align directly with topics from the Panorama Social-Emotional Learning Survey, including:

  • Emotion Regulation

  • School and Classroom Climate

  • Teacher-Student Relationships

  • Self-Management

  • Sense of Belonging

  • Sense of Safety

  • Social Awareness


For example, a video extract of an Augmented Reality SEL activity called “Breathing With Wisdom” guides students through breathing exercises as they explore how breathing and emotions are connected. Through the interactive video and supplementary materials, teachers can lead a discussion with their students about how certain breathing techniques can help them to feel calm in stressful situations.

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For school leaders and educators thinking about how to best rebuild a sense of community in classrooms during hybrid or distance learning, Better Kids has integrated a set of 14 virtual SEL activities into Playbook that help with investing in teacher-student relationships in the beginning of the year. “As schools and districts across the country continue to support students’ social, emotional, cultural and cognitive competencies, Better Kids is thrilled to share innovative strategies with organizations such as Panorama Education”, said Ondine Bullot, chief executive officer and founder of Better Kids.

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Panorama’s Playbook connects teachers, counselors and school leaders with easy-to-implement resources, activities, and research related to emotion regulation, grit, teacher-student relationships, adult SEL, and more. Teachers explore Panorama’s Playbook when they are looking to take action on their Panorama student survey data on school climate and social-emotional learning.

To access 300+ SEL teaching resources and engaging digital games, download Wisdom: The World of Emotions on iOS and Android.

About Panorama Education

Panorama Education partners with K-12 schools and districts across the country to collect and analyze data about social-emotional learning, school climate, family engagement, and more. With research-backed surveys and a leading technology platform, Panorama helps educators act on data and improve student outcomes. Panorama supports more than 10 million students in 17,000 schools across 49 states, including those in the New York City Department of Education, Dallas Independent School District, Seattle Public Schools, and San Francisco Unified School District. To learn more about Panorama Education, visit www.panoramaed.com and @PanoramaEd

About Better Kids
Better Kids is a social impact venture focused on helping parents and educators support the social emotional growth of the little humans they care about so deeply. Better Kids creates digital games, hands-on activities and interactive workbooks that help children ages 4-8 develop important social emotional skills such as self-awareness, social awareness, empathy, and self-management. To learn more about Better Kids, visit www.betterkids.education and @BKidsEdu


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