The startup offers an online platform that utilizes a scientifically validated personality insights framework to enhance social-emotional learning and life skills development for students in secondary schools and higher education. By mapping individual learner profiles, the platform aims to improve student well-being, academic performance, and employability outcomes.
Funding
$600K raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
Founders
Product
Problem
Many secondary and higher education institutions struggle to effectively deliver and monitor social-emotional learning (SEL) and personal development programs for students. Existing methods often lack personalized insights and scalable tools to address individual student needs and improve well-being, academic performance, and employability skills.
Solution
Persona Education offers Persona Life Skills, an online platform that uses a personality insights framework to facilitate social-emotional learning and life skills development for students aged 11-19. The platform provides a unique approach to understanding individual student personalities, enabling educators to deliver personalized learning experiences and track progress at the individual, group, or whole-school level. By focusing on 22 social-emotional life skills, Persona Life Skills aims to improve student well-being, academic results, and employability by helping students understand themselves, understand others, and learn to achieve more positive outcomes in life challenges. The platform is accessible on various devices and provides ready-made modules and built-in teacher guidance, empowering non-specialist teachers to facilitate personal development.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes secondary schools, higher education institutions, and homeschooling educators seeking to enhance social-emotional learning and personal development for students aged 11-19.
Features
- Personality insights framework designed specifically for young people, based on the 'Self/Friends' model.
- Technology-enhanced curriculum guiding students in using the framework to develop social-emotional skills.
- Ready-made modules and built-in teacher guidance for easy implementation in the classroom or remote learning.
- Progress monitoring at whole school, cohort, group, or student level.
- Accessible on Chromebook, Surface, laptop, PC, tablet, and smartphone.
- Integrates a framework of 22 social-emotional life skills.