WEBINAR: How can schools measure wellbeing?

Today, there is a greater emphasis than ever on providing data and evidence of the impact that wellbeing programs are having on students' emotional state, learner readiness, behaviour and overall wellbeing.

In this webinar, our experts discussed student wellbeing and methods to track, measure and report on wellbeing programs and create rich learner profiles, all while providing support to students and educators.

Watch our experienced panel of educators speak about their challenges, successes and best practices around implementing effective measurement methods, all while reducing teacher workload.

In this webinar, our panelists discussed:

Ways we can address wellbeing issues and support educators and students through better data, reporting and learner profiles that provide context to behaviour.
How context data is being gathered across classes, stages and cohorts to identify and support heightened students, how it is used to enhance PBL and to measure all wellbeing activities across the school.
The role of real-time emotion check-ins to measure wellbeing and readiness to learn.
The challenges faced in measuring and reporting wellbeing and addressing areas such as teacher workload, students' emotional literacy and self-regulation

ABOUT OUR EXPERTS

Nikki Bonus is an experienced ed-tech founder and CEO of Life Skills Group, harnessing more than 20 years of deeply personal and professional experience in the development and delivery of social-emotional literacy programs for individuals, organizations, and most importantly, teachers and students. Nikki’s work has helped give voice to more than 850 schools, connecting with 20,000 teachers and 500,000 primary school children to build a continuing evidence base of what works to measure, report and implement real improvements in Social Emotional and Physical Literacy for school communities.

Candice Taylor teaches at Killarney Vale Public School on the Central Coast. She wears many teaching hats; Teacher Librarian, Wellbeing Coordinator and Assistant Principal, Curriculum and Instruction. Candice holds both a Masters of Education and a Master of Education in Teacher Librarianship.

Candice Taylor has been a critical contributor to the success of her school’s blended approach to wellbeing, which incorporates elements of Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL), Zones of Regulation, and Life Skills GO. Within her District, Candice has led professional learning to the broader school community, speaking of Killarney Vale’s wellbeing programs, initiatives, and strategies, which have been recognised as "best practice”. Recently, Candice gave an informative and insightful presentation to her school’s Parent &Community (P&C) about KVPS’s implementation of Life Skills GO. This discussion gave the school’s P&C members a firsthand demonstration of the Life Skills GO platform and a greater understanding into the school’s proactive approach to supporting students’ wellbeing daily.

Candice has a profound commitment to wellbeing, whereby whole-school wellbeing decisions are underpinned by evidence-based research, explicit teachings, and data-driven practices. This ensures that every student’s social and emotional learning at KVPS is holistically supported so that students feel empowered to continuously move “Forward to a Better World”.

Webinar Replay:How can schools measure wellbeing?