Persona Education Newsletter, Jan-24
13-Jan-24
Boost your students' wellbeing with our new affordable 'Wellbeing' Persona Life Skills teacher package! Subscription for one teacher with up to 30 students, at a limited time introductory price of GBP39 +VAT / USD49 per year.
Persona Life Skills is the only personal development platform with personality insights at its heart, where students age 13+ develop social-emotional skills supporting wellbeing, academic success and employability.
The Wellbeing package includes 10 teacher-facilitated 45-60 min lesson modules including self-discovery with our practical and memorable 'Self/Friends' personality insights, specially designed for young people. Plus, life challenge topics such as loving yourself, friendships, talking about emotions, and social action. The package also includes 66 self-directed learning life skills modules, progress monitoring, and our Teacher Onboarding module, so any teacher can get started in just 30 mins.
Video: Introducing Persona Life Skills social-emotional online learning
Persona Education in 2023 – A year in reviewSupporting the impressive positivity shown by schools and colleges in 2023, at Persona Education, working single-mindedly on our important mission of boosting the wellbeing and employability of young people, we made great progress towards our vision of a world with more cooperation and less conflict. |
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Meet us with SMART Technologies at BETT in London on 24-Jan-24Selected Persona Life Skills employability modules will soon be available on the Lumio digital learning tool via SMART Technologies interactive displays. Join our Chief Product Officer, Leila Khouja Walker, as she presents a preview demo on the SMART stand (SK20) at BETT in London on 24-Jan-24. Contact us for details! |
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Webinar recording: Teacher packages and Persona Life Skills demoIn our latest demo webinar (39 mins) we introduced three new subscription packages for teachers to use for Wellbeing, Academic success or Careers, with up to 30 students. We then provided a demo of the Persona Life Skills platform, how it works, a look inside a learning module, and its unique personality insights features. |
Explore Persona Life Skills: Buy an affordable Teacher package, or an individual Student account for Homeschooling. Or start with a School/College free trial with 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?
In the wake of the spike in edtech innovation and startups that occurred during COVID-19, there's now a lot of interest in – and support for – promising edtech innovators. Venture studios, accelerators, grants and other funding opportunities are all looking to support promising solutions.
One such programme is the Tools Competition, sponsored by Open AI, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and others, and we are thrilled to be shortlisted for this significant edtech innovation grant.
With generative AI on the scene, the urgency of developing social-emotional skills alongside academic knowledge and technical skills has taken an order of magnitude leap. Persona Life Skills is already part of the solution for thousands of young people around the globe, and this support for our AI driven product innovation is a welcome validation!
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Best wishes,
Pete Read
CEO & Co-founder
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