Persona Education Newsletter, Feb-25
28-Feb-25
SEL Day is 3rd March! To support this year's theme 'Skills for Success > Ready for the Future', your students can discover their mix of personality styles for free in our Persona Insights quiz, by using code VHVBNX here before 31-Mar-25.
Persona Life Skills is the only personal development platform with personality insights at its heart, where students age 11-19 develop social-emotional skills to boost wellbeing, academic and employability outcomes.
SEL Day is a global, grassroots campaign for social-emotional learning (SEL) supporting young people’s academic recovery, mental health and wellbeing. An important first step for any middle school, high school or youth development program student in building their social-emotional skills, is getting to know themselves. Using the code VHVBNX to create a free account here, your students can answer our fun quiz to explore how they think, communicate and behave in various scenarios, and gain insights into their unique mix of personality styles, plus AI-powered personal growth areas!
Want to know more about Persona Insights? Read our blog article.
Take the quiz (use code VHVBNX)
| Video: Introducing Persona Life Skills online social-emotional learning
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Not only for students! As a teacher, by gaining insight into your own blend of personality styles in Persona Life Skills, and those of your students, your ability to communicate effectively and build healthy relationships in the classroom is significantly enhanced. Try it free
This month's Highlights 
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Webinar recording: Grade 6-12 Life Skills & Personality InsightsIn this 45 min webinar with our US partner Sunburst Digital, we talk about the challenges faced by young people in Grade 6-12, and how teaching and learning life skills can help reverse worrying teenager future-readiness trends. We also show you how programs like Persona Life Skills develop core human skills – while returning an 11:1 financial return. |
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Pete Read interviewed on the Lessons4Life podcastWe recently teamed up with Lessons4Life for an episode of their podcast, in which our CEO Pete Read shared his thoughts with two primary school pupils. He was grilled on PSHE, personality insights, anger management and the importance of life skills in a future world under threat from mental health issues and climate change. Plus: Sign the Lessons4Life petition to support life skills in the UK! |
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Webinar: Career/College Readiness & EmployabilityDon't miss our next free webinar! Picking up the SEL Day theme of future readiness, we will reveal how AI is changing the workplace, Gen Z's lack of employability skills and increasing university drop-out rates, then show you how programs like Persona Life Skills help with career & college readiness by teaching employability skills including goal-setting, adaptability, communication and more. |
Want to find out some more?
Explore Persona Life Skills: Buy an affordable Teacher Package, or start with a School/College Free Trial for as many students and teachers as you like.
No download; no installation. With ready-made modules and built-in guidance, any teacher can facilitate the learning.
Want a demo? No problem! Please complete the form, select ‘I’d like a demo’ and we will be in touch to arrange a time.
Where next on our EdTech journey?
Investing in life skills edtech is often seen by schools as a 'nice to have' – but there are many compelling reasons why it is in fact a 'must have' and we want to share these with you over the coming months.
Perhaps the most compelling is the financial case for implementing a life skills program. Columbia University’s Center for Benefit-Cost Studies in Education carried out a robust economic evaluation of SEL programs and concluded the return on investment was on average 11 dollars for each dollar spent.
Yes, that's right, and it bears repeating: The financial benefits of life skills programs outweigh their costs by more than 1,000 percent. If you have financial constraints, share this with your budget holders!
Thank you for reading! You can also find previous issues of this newsletter here.
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Best wishes,
Pete Read
CEO & Co-founder
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