Our approach
How our unique approach engages students effectively
We gather insights during #WinAtSocial Lessons while your students are already engaged. Avoid survey fatigue and deliver student respected lessons on essential, timely topics.
Insights live inside the learning
Students share perspectives while completing #WinAtSocial Lessons, so class time doesn’t become survey time.
Lessons pass the snicker test
We co-create #WinAtSocial Lessons with students and snicker-test our content, so students have a voice even as new lessons are created.
Student insight in real time
Your dashboard updates after students complete lessons, so teachers and administrators stay informed.
How we capture insights
Ask at the start, listen all year, measure what changed
Diagnostic
Kickoff Questionnaire
Where are our students right now?
Students complete the Annual Student Kickoff Questionnaire at the start of your partnership and the beginning of each year, setting your baseline across the Seven Standards.
What your team gets: Your starting point, plus how it compares nationally, so you know which skills to prioritize.
Formative
#WinAtSocial Lessons
What are our students telling us right now?
Students answer inside every #WinAtSocial Huddle, all year long, tracking what they’re navigating, including AI, devices, group chats, current events, and more.
What your team gets: Real-time insights you can filter by grade and month, so you know which skills and topics to focus on next.
Summative
Benchmark Survey
What changed?
We ask the same core questions again at the end of the school year and compare them against your Kickoff baseline. Determine which #WinAtSocial Learning Objectives and Professional Development Courses to consider for next year.
What your team gets: A benchmark analysis showing where students improved and what they need more support on in the coming year.
What we measure
What we measure: Three layers of insight
School and district leaders expect to see impact. So, how do we know this is working?
Implementation
Are students and teachers engaging? Lessons completed, classrooms participating, teachers facilitating, families reached. This tells you whether the approach is taking root in your building.
Student voice and staff feedback
What are students and teachers reporting? Your diagnostic Kickoff baseline across the Seven Standards, formative insights captured in every lesson, and teacher feedback on how lessons land. This tells you how your school culture feels to the people living in it.
Reported behavior change
What is shifting over time? Summative movement between your Kickoff and Benchmark results at the school or district level. Student behavior shifts for many reasons at once, so we report what students tell us and we help your team read it alongside everything else you know about your school.
Put insights to work
Put your insights to work
Insights matter when they change a decision. Here is what our partners do with theirs.
Shape school policy
Bring student perspectives on devices, AI, and group chats into your policy conversations, backed by your own students’ voices.
Access the School Leader’s Guide for Communicating AI Policies Clearly ›
Focus teacher PD
Point professional learning at the skills your students flagged, not the ones you guessed at.
Strengthen family communication
Share what students are navigating with families, and send resources that match the moment.
Report to your key stakeholders and community
Show summative movement across your Kickoff and Benchmark results with data your community trusts, because it came from your students.
Choose your next lessons
Your dashboard recommends App & Device Playbooks that respond to what students just reported navigating on a regular basis.
What could you learn from your students?
Explore our unique approach to educating students while delivering important insights to teachers and administrators.
About The Social Institute
The Social Institute (TSI) is the leader in equipping students, families, and educators with modern life skills to impact learning, well-being, and students’ futures. Through #WinAtSocial, our interactive, peer-to-peer learning platform, we integrate teacher PD, family resources, student voice insights, and more to empower entire school communities to make positive 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, incorporating timely topics such as social media, AI, screen time, misinformation, and current events to help schools stay proactive in supporting student health, happiness, and academic success.