Hello,
we're building Positive, a service for teachers to learn, teach and assess Social and Emotional Skills.
Happy kids learn best
Social and emotional skills are key human capabilities that allow individuals to manage their feelings, work with others, and achieve their goals. They are crucial for the wellbeing and success of every child and adult, and for the future of our societies and economies.
In addition, social and emotional skills are factors most predictive of success in a wide range of important life outcomes. They are prerequisites for efficient academic learning written in curricula all over the world.
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) is one of the hottest topics in global education today. SEL is required in the OECD (2017) and other international curriculum reforms.
The Job
Everywhere in the world schools are required to teach and assess social and emotional skills.
Teachers are actively looking for solutions to teach the skills.
The Pains
There are no integrated, scalable, science-based, easy-to-use tools, materials and processes that support and guide teachers to teach and assess social and emotional skills.
Students’ low wellbeing is a key factor in students’ low academic results.
The Positive Method
Our Positive Method enables teachers to learn, teach and assess social and emotional skills. The Positive Method consists of practice built positive pedagogy, intuitive software and engaging teaching tools.
Positive Method principles have been used by thousands of educators. The relationship between the Positive Method usage and student wellbeing has been rigorously studied (Vuorinen et al., 2018; 2019). The results show improved school-engagement and happiness.
Our Envisioned Solution
Learn
Positive Method
Learn the highly popular Positive Method already used by teachers in hundreds of schools.
Digital Coach
Learn the Positive Method with a bitesize form integrated in the busy daily school life.
Certification Program
Get certified as a Positive Teacher with the opportunity to build up a strong local community.
Teach
Materials
Choose from a wide range of resources and activities.
Lesson plans
Follow guided and personalized lesson plans easy to ingrate in the existing curriculum.
Group activities
Engage students in the learning process with group activities using digital and physical materials applicable in many study subjects.
Community
Get hundreds of activities developed and shared by Positive teachers globally. You’ll find a variety of exercises organized by grade level, subject or keyword.
Assess
Progress Tool
Set group and individual goals, evaluate the progress and share it with parents.
See the Good Tool
Provide personalized positive feedback to students.
Positive CV
Visualize the evolution of student strengths and give a Positive CV to every student to complement the academic school year report.
Impact Measurement
Document the outcomes of using Positive Method and get an up-to-date visualization of student progress in order to track and analyze key information on wellbeing.
Metrics
Make progress visible and address shortcomings.
Sounds interesting?
About Us
Our founders Kaisa and Lotta started working on Positive Pedagogy out of frustration with the poor results of focusing only on difficulties on their daily practice as Special Education teachers.
The initial controlled interventions showed promising results. Together with a set of early adopting teachers, they developed a method to learn and teach strengths.
Soon, trained teachers across Finland saw improved well-being and learning in their students.
After many years of traveling in and out of Finland it was clear to them that a digital service was needed to bring the service to all the educators in the world.
Positive was born.
Kaisa Vuorinen
CEO, Founder
kaisa@positive.fi
Lotta Uusitalo
Head of Impact, Founder
lotta@positive.fi
Elina Paatsila
Head of Teacher Training, Founder
elina@positive.fi
Tom Eklöf
CTO, Co-Founder
tom@positive.fi
Saija Lehtonen
Chief Happiness Manager
saija@positive.fi
Pasi Kotilainen
Pedagogical Lead, Co-Founder
pasi@positive.fi
Sergio Palomo
Head of Design, Co-Founder
sergio@positive.fi
Timo Koro
UX Developer, Co-Founder
timo@positive.fi
Chisato Anttilainen
Japan Country Manager
chisato@positive.fi
Mari Thure-Sivola
Teacher Trainer
mari@positive.fi
Crow
Chief Story Teller
Join the Positive Learning Movement
We are creating Positive together with selected schools and organizations around the globe.
Contact us if our vision and mission resonate with you.
We will be glad to know about you and your way to teach social and emotional skills!
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