A smarter, affordable way to support modern skills for students, educators, and families
For schools around the world, The Social Institute is a one-stop partner impacting your entire communities, including families and educators.
Instead of spending the budget across many solutions at higher prices only to have an inefficient patchwork of vendors and services, our team provides a comprehensive, affordable solution.
Schools are facing a variety of related challenges: A.I. Literacy, Media Literacy, device use, Digital Citizenship, family engagement, along with numerous challenges from cyberbullying to plagiarism and online drama spilling into the classroom.
At the end of the day, the answer lies in the daily decisions that educators, students, and families make and how they collaborate to gain knowledge and skills so that school communities can effectively navigate often tech-fueled experiences both online and offline.
Hidden School Budget Challenges: Reactive & Existing Efforts are Fragmented, Costly, and Unsustainable
Today, supporting student success means addressing everything from how people consume information online to how they use apps and devices. Modern fluency in technology and digital experiences has become essential for academic achievement, college readiness, and future careers. Even the youngest students — those who haven’t yet held a smartphone — are navigating a world shaped by how the adults around them interact with technology.
Many schools try to meet these modern skill-building demands through a mix of:
- Guest speakers for students
- One-off parent nights
- Standalone PD workshops
- Manually created lessons or slide decks
- Patchworked lesson plans found online
- External platforms focused on a single issue (e.g., character development, A.I, or substance use)
The result? Initiatives compete for limited time, pull from multiple budget lines, require constant updating, and don’t scale effectively across grade levels. Even more, they often cost more collectively than a single integrated platform designed for long-term impact.
When schools approach this work in silos, they pay a hidden price:
- Hundreds of hours spent coordinating, planning, and updating ⏱️
- Budgets drained across departments 💵
- Disjointed, hard-to-scale programming 🤹
- Missed opportunities to create long-term, aligned impact ⚠️
And avoiding these challenges isn’t an option, either. Without proactive, unified support:
- Students may leave due to culture concerns
- Reputational risks increase when digital missteps occur
- Families may choose another school that promotes a thoughtful approach to core skill-building and proactively equipping students
The Smarter, Strategic Alternative: One Unified Approach
Over nearly a decade, in collaboration with hundreds of schools and thousands of educators, The Social Institute has pioneered a new way of supporting student success, and in the process, we have helped schools navigate budgets to have a positive impact.
So, what does “modern student success” mean? It’s no longer just about grades, test scores, or college acceptance letters. Modern success means equipping students with the skills to navigate technology responsibly, communicate effectively online and offline, make high-character decisions, protect their well-being, and build positive reputations in an increasingly connected world. It also means aligning educators and families with a shared language and set of standards to support students at every turn, inside and outside the classroom.
With this evolving definition of success, schools are taking a more strategic approach to how they fund and organize their efforts. Here are three common strategies schools are using to budget for modern student success:
- Fund with Intention: Access budget from multiple sources to ensure buy-in and school-wide or district-wide momentum. This can include curriculum budgets, technology budgets, speaker budgets, professional development budgets, and more.
- Merge Existing Budget Lines: With a solution like #WinAtSocial, it’s possible for schools to replace siloed costs with a high-quality approach. This means schools might be able to eliminate previous expenses and even replace other solutions that #WinAtSocial can provide instead.
- Make it a Priority: School leaders who recognize the importance of modern life skills for students and the need to align families and teachers in a common goal have successfully inspired school communities and found the funding they need to address one of the biggest challenges of our times.
At The Social Institute, we developed a single, all-in-one solution designed to collapse budget lines and eliminate the need for fragmented programs. With lessons that are co-created with students and turnkey for teachers, #WinAtSocial is a school-wide approach to high-character decision-making. Schools can access everything they need to support students, educators, and families: lessons, teacher professional development, expert guest speakers, family engagement tools, real-time insights, and national benchmarking.
Instead of juggling multiple vendors or internal materials that quickly become outdated, school leaders can rely on one proactive, positive, and turnkey platform that:
- Engages students with high-character, interactive lessons
- Equips educators with training and turnkey tools
- Involves families with ready-made resources
- Provides real-time student insights and national benchmarking data
- Offers student leadership opportunities through TSI’s Student Ambassador Program
- Aligns your entire school community toward common goals with a common language
It’s everything your school is likely already investing in, just smarter, simpler, and significantly more strategic.
Bottom Line: Stop Juggling. Start Strategizing.
You’re already investing time and money into student support, educator PD, and family engagement. What if your school could do it all through one suite of solutions that costs less, drives more impact, and gets everyone rowing in the same direction?
Explore how much time, money, and impact you could gain with #WinAtSocial. Request pricing today!
The Social Institute (TSI) is the leader in equipping students to navigate learning & well-being in a tech-fueled world. Through #WinAtSocial, our interactive, peer-to-peer learning platform, we empower students, educators, and families to make high-character choices online and offline. #WinAtSocial Lessons teach essential skills while capturing student voice and actionable insights for educators. These insights help educators maintain a healthy school culture, foster high-impact teaching, and build meaningful relationships with families. Our unique, student-respected approach empowers and equips students authentically, enabling our solution to increase classroom participation and improve student-teacher relationships. Through our one-of-a-kind lesson development process, we create lessons for a variety of core and elective classes while incorporating timely topics like social media, A.I., screen time, misinformation, and current events to help schools stay proactive in how they support student health, happiness, and academic success.