Persona Education Newsletter, Oct-24
29-Oct-24
As we approach the end of October, we're excited to share everything that's been happening this month!
We’re thrilled to announce our free CPD webinar for next month – Life Skills in the Curriculum. We advocate for a whole-school approach to student personal development, with 10 classroom habits that empower every teacher to help improve students' social-emotional skills. Join us on 13th November 2024.
Secure your place by clicking here!
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.
Whether you are a SEL/PSHE lead, Maths teacher, Guidance Counsellor, Modern Languages tutor – in fact any kind of teacher – here are 10 habits that will help get you started with life skills in your classroom. Strategies range from overtly stating social-emotional skills within lesson objectives, to modelling the same skills when delivering lessons – and much more in between. Just imagine the cumulative positive impact on our students if ALL teachers started to integrate life skills into their everyday routine!
Plus: By shifting focus from fixed learning preferences to understanding a student's unique 'Persona', teachers gain deeper insights into their students' needs. This allows for more effective, personalised teaching methods that create an engaging and inclusive learning environment, better suited to a diverse range of learners.
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By gaining insight into your own blend of personality styles, as well as those of your students, your ability to communicate effectively and build healthy relationships in the classroom is significantly enhanced.
Special Announcement!
We are excited to announce our new partnership with Sunburst Digital Learning, bringing our Persona Life Skills platform to schools and homeschoolers across the United States. As a UK-based leader in online social-emotional learning, we are committed to empowering students aged 11-19 with the life skills they need to succeed in today’s rapidly changing world.
Through this partnership, Sunburst Digital will become the authorised reseller of Persona Life Skills for US middle and high schools, as well as homeschool educators. With their strong 30-year reputation and presence in over 97% of US school districts, we’re confident that this collaboration will enable us to reach many more students and make a greater social impact.
Read our full press release here
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Discover our life challenge modulesThe Persona Life Skills online platform uses an engaging learning metaphor of exploring an archipelago of 'Islands'. Each Island guides students to learn about themselves and others through the lens of personality insights, and use this in social, learning and work life challenges, from friendships, to exams, work experience and much more. |
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Affordable Persona Life Skills teacher packagesBoost your students' wellbeing, academic success or career-readiness with our new Persona Life Skills teacher packages. Annual subscriptions for one teacher and 30 students, at a very affordable price. Each package includes themed teacher-facilitated modules, self-directed life skills modules, the Persona Insights personality profile and more. |
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Webinar recording: Personality Informed PedagogyIn this webinar our Co-founder Dr Leila Khouja Walker looks at pedagogy through the lens of personality styles, and how gaining insight into personality styles can improve communication and relationships in the classroom. She also explains how to discover your own teacher 'Persona' using the free Persona Insights quiz. |
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?
Going to the SEL Exchange in Chicago in November?
Persona Education will be represented at the event by our authorised US reseller Sunburst Digital. If you’re going and would like to meet up, they would love to see you! Please get in touch.
The SEL Exchange is all about Social-Emotional Learning and a great opportunity to connect with innovators, educators, researchers, policy leaders, and youth from around the world.
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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