PRESS RELEASE: The Social Institute Wins EdTech Breakthrough Award
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The Social Institute Wins EdTech Breakthrough Award
#WinAtSocial Takes Home “Best Competency-based Education Solution” Prize
June 8, 2023: Durham, NC – The Social Institute was selected as a winner in the 2023 EdTech Breakthrough Awards program, taking home the “Best Competency-based Education Solution” award for #WinAtSocial, the gamified peer-to-peer learning technology that engages 100 percent of students through positive tech-enabled lessons. This latest recognition comes just two months after The Social Institute’s #WinAtSocial platform was named a finalist in a separate awards program, the EdTech Awards.
The EdTech Breakthrough Awards aims to perform the deepest evaluations of the global educational technology industry each year to recognize and highlight the “breakthrough” EdTech solutions and companies. This year, more than 2,400 nominations were received from all over the world, according to organizers.
#WinAtSocial is an engaging, online learning platform that equips students, educators, and families to navigate social experiences — online and offline — in healthy ways. The curriculum follows a positive, student-respected approach that incorporates topics like social media, technology use, and current events that have a significant impact on student well-being. Lessons teach life skills for the modern day to support the health, happiness, and future success of students while capturing data that provides insights to school leaders to inform school policy and communications and enable high-impact teaching and a healthy learning environment.
“Students spend an average of 32.5 hours in class every week. After you factor in parents’ busy work schedules and student extracurricular activities, some students spend more time with their teachers than they do with their parents on weekdays,” said Laura Tierney, Founder and CEO of The Social Institute. “The classroom plays an important role in student development, academically and socially, making it a perfect place to integrate modern-day life skills.”
#WinAtSocial Curriculum Lessons teach evergreen life skills throughout the year, through a timely, culturally relevant approach, while #WinAtSocial LIVE Lessons enable school communities to address trending topics and current events that matter to students in real-time. As schools run #WinAtSocial, anonymous student responses are aggregated by #WinAtSocial Insights that deliver powerful, real-time insight into school culture and student experiences to uncover the school’s biggest challenges, inform school policy & communications, and enable high-impact teaching in a healthier learning environment.
“In an age where teacher burnout is at an all-time high, this turnkey technology allows for easy implementation with minimal prep, and a comprehensive game plan to support the well-being of entire school communities,” said Andrea Jenkins, The Social Institute’s Director of Partner Success and a career educator, with more than two decades of experience in teaching and school leadership roles.
The #WinAtSocial curriculum is available for students in grades 3 – 12 and is developmentally appropriate for each grade level to ensure it will grow with the students. For more information or to request a demo, visit https://thesocialinstitute.com/.
The Social Institute (TSI) is the leader in understanding student experiences and creator of #WinAtSocial, a gamified, online learning platform that equips students, educators, and families to navigate social experiences — online and offline — in healthy ways. Our unique, student-respected approach incorporates topics like social media, technology use, and current events that have a significant impact on student well-being. Lessons teach life skills for the modern day to inspire high-character decisions that support the health, happiness, and future success of students while capturing data that provides insights to school leaders to inform school policy and communications and enable high-impact teaching and a healthy learning environment. For schools, our turnkey technology allows for easy implementation and a comprehensive game plan to support the well-being of school communities. For schools, our turnkey technology allows for easy implementation and a comprehensive game plan to support the well-being of school communities.