Persona Education Newsletter, Jun-24
30-Jun-24
Social-Emotional Learning can be delivered in many different ways. Integrating it into whole school culture over time will achieve the best, long-lasting positive impact.
Persona Life Skills is the only personal development platform with personality insights at its heart, where students age 13-19 develop social-emotional skills supporting wellbeing, academic and employability outcomes.
Integrating Social-Emotional Learning into the whole school culture will achieve the best, long-lasting positive impact for students, teachers and leadership. This could involve any or all of dedicated, blended, remote, integrated, independent, tutoring, or coaching approaches. Pete Read and Dr Leila Khouja Walker, creators of the online Social-Emotional Learning platform Persona Life Skills, offer advice for schools and colleges on different ways this critical element of student Personal Development can be delivered.
| Video: Introducing Persona Life Skills social-emotional online learning
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Webinar recording: Life Skills for Climate ChangeWe present highlights on Skills for Climate Change, a new section in our 2024 Guide to Student Personal Development. Social-emotional skills help young people deal with the realities they are facing and plan responses. You can also download the webinar slides. |
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Have you downloaded our Guide to Student Personal Development yet?!Our free PDF Guide – updated for 2024 – provides you with evidence for adopting Personal Development with a Social-Emotional Learning approach. Includes many ideas and resources to help you achieve whole school/college benefits, greater student wellbeing, higher academic attainment and better destinations stats. |
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Free Persona Life Skills teacher CPD on the Hays Education HubFree Persona Life Skills teacher professional development courses and student career readiness courses are now available in the Hays Education Hub, a growing library of digital learning resources designed to empower staff and pupils. |
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?
Do you know an angel investor?
97% of teachers using Persona Life Skills say it improves their students' employability, and 94% say it boosts wellbeing.
We are now raising a pre-seed investment round – EIS Assured so it's tax efficient – to help make Persona Life Skills even better for students, teachers and schools.
The funding will be used for:
- Making Persona Life Skills more engaging and interactive
- Adding short video content to make it more accessible
- Increasing school support to boost training and onboarding
We already have investors backing us but there is still some equity up for grabs. So if you know someone who is interested in supporting a social impact start-up with great market traction, led by an experienced team with a proven track record, please ask them to get in touch.
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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