Prioritize social-emotional learning with Microsoft partner solutions

Students love building visual stories using augmented reality that can help them explore, reflect on, and explain topics such as self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision making. Ready-made curriculum and rubrics utilize the higher levels of Bloom’s taxonomy (create, evaluate, analyze, and apply), letting teachers unleash student creativity to raise awareness and improve behavior.

Buncee helps educators create engaging, multimedia SEL resources and activities from scratch or from a library of templates. Students can complete these activities and express themselves with a variety of media options including emojis, stickers and animations, video, audio, drawing, and more. Fully integrated with Microsoft Teams, Word, OneNote, and Immersive Reader, Buncee lets students decide how they would like to communicate, empowering them to develop and use their voice, and have ownership of their work.

Support the well-being of your students and help them develop critical future-ready skills with Canva’s ready-made SEL activities, which can be easily shared to Microsoft Teams. You can also choose from a variety of templates to decorate and customize your Microsoft Teams backgrounds and Teams tiles for different subjects and grade levels.

The Adaptive Learning Experience (aleX) platform helps build community and engages both students and educators. The platform includes a digital learning assistant (QBot) that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to provide teachers with proactive recommendations for teaching interventions; an analytics engine to track engagement and help staff make informed decisions; and a provisioning engine that integrates directly into your learning management system (LMS) to reduce workload.

Go1 delivers collaborative learning tools to help educators gain skills on teaching methodologies like SEL and deliver learning content to their students. Go1’s free app for Microsoft Teams allows educators to share and discuss learning content with one another—as well as with their students—all within Teams.

Improve the engagement and social-emotional learning of your students by adding School Day in Microsoft Teams. There is no one-size-fits-all SEL plan, but with School Day educators can more effectively identify students’ needs and make evidence-based decisions by simply gauging student responses to statements like “I can get help from my classmates” to get their answers for analysis on the platform. School Day ensures that all students have a voice, including those who are not typically heard, and is an ideal, user-friendly solution for remote, hybrid, and traditional learning settings.

Gaggle Safety Management watches for students’ use of words or phrases in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams that could indicate harmful behavior. If a match is discovered, a team of human safety experts evaluates the content to determine whether it poses a credible threat—and if so, how serious.

By utilizing a student safety platform within Microsoft 365 and Teams environments, educators can identify struggling students to create a strong support system and equip them with the SEL skills they need to succeed.

Lightspeed Alert™ and Lightspeed Classroom Management™ integrate with Microsoft Teams to empower district leaders and educators with the visibility, actionable insights, and tools to help ensure student safety and engagement during remote and hybrid learning. Lightspeed Alert actively scans for and alerts about early-warning signs of concerning student behavior anywhere students engage online, including Microsoft 365 and Teams. Real-time alerts are sent directly to district personnel, 24/7/365 for human review, and escalation processes of imminent threats to student safety from Lightspeed Alert add a critical component in school districts’ wellness programs and student safety plans.

Senso.cloud supports student well-being in and out of the classroom by monitoring student safety and providing effective IT support regardless of a device’s geographic location. Senso complements existing school initiatives to help monitor and report online issues. Armed with this information, schools can effectively intervene to improve social and emotional approaches that empower young people to become agents of change.

Nearpod’s Social & Emotional Learning lesson collection is a K-12 solution built from CASEL’s leading framework and created in partnership with Calm and Common Sense Education. It helps students build positive, secure, and empowering school climates. Educators, counselors, and administrators can embed SEL instruction into any setting to provide explicit instruction of the skills students need for school and beyond. Using Nearpod’s signature interactive platform, teachers can hear questions from every student throughout lessons to elevate student voice. Through scenario-based critical thinking opportunities, students will build key skills that contribute to whole child well-being, discuss and reflect on SEL skills, and complete other skill building activities. Nearpod’s SEL will empower students with lifelong learning strategies and growth mindset practices to promote success in school and beyond.

Pear Deck Social Emotional Learning Templates help students practice SEL skills by incorporating questions that promote self-awareness into regular lessons. Supported by learning science, Pear Deck leverages strategies that are proven to make a positive impact on student learning for any subject area and across all grade levels.

Silas research-based SEL Curriculum and Simulation Software serves special education, general education, and transition-aged students. With breakthrough technology including distance learning multiplayer capabilities modeling social skills using avatars and real-time animation, Silas incorporates CASEL’s 5 Social Competencies, meets state and federal SEL mandates, and aligns with MTSS Framework.