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School Day’s most interesting topics, trends, and releases.
18.12.2020
School Day Launching New US Districts and Schools Together with Eduscape
School Day is expanding its presence in the US together with Eduscape, its North American distribution partner. School Day's award-winning service will be adopted by several K-12 districts and schools ...
17.11.2020
Remote Learning and the Importance of Students´ Wellbeing
The world of education is changing fast and this is especially true this year with the rise of hybrid learning. We've seen educators and administrators across the world adapting quickly to build new m ...
12.11.2020
Celebrating Inspiring Education Innovations Around the World
I am a product of the Finnish education system and recognize how fortunate I have been to grow up and learn in a globally known system based on freedom, trust, and wellbeing. As the CEO of School Day, ...
22.10.2020
Principal View Now Available!
As I mentioned in the blog post regarding our September release, we have been working also with a new feature called "Principal View". Now our quality control persons are also happy, so here it ...
16.10.2020
The Value of Student Voice for School Leaders and Teachers | Webinar
We are super excited to join our partner Eduscape in this upcoming webinar on The Value of Student Voice in Social-Emotional Learning. When: Monday, October 26, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDTLink to reg ...
13.10.2020
How does school culture influence teaching and learning?
To be a truly amazing school leader, we need to focus on helping students achieve real growth and success. When students know school is a place that is safe and supportive, they do better. They meet c ...
25.09.2020
News from the Engine Room - September Release is Out!
Greetings from our developers! We have been pushing to get our newest features out, and now they are live! Here you can have a quick glimpse of what to expect. Analytics Directly from Phenomenon ...
11.09.2020
School Day and Oxford Education LIT Launch First Schools Together
School Day and Oxford Education LIT have signed a reseller partnership to support student wellbeing and social-emotional learning for English speaking schools worldwide. Oxford Education LIT will be r ...
10.09.2020
Introducing School Day Avatars!
School Day Avatars are here! Students can now choose between 16 different avatars to use as their profile picture while in our service! Below are our 16 new avatars made for your stude ...
01.09.2020
Latest from School Day Research!
I'm sure that we can all agree that we have had an unexpected spring and summer behind us. The back-to-work orientation period is starting to be over. We're now again in full gear on th ...
20.08.2020
Our August Release is Out!
Summertime is nearing its end here in Finland, and for the last couple of months, we have been working with some great new features! Some have been rolled out already during the summer. Some are just ...
19.08.2020
School Day Made it to the Nordic-Baltic EdTech 50 List!
AMAZING NEWS! We're thrilled to announce that we made it to HolonIQ's list of 50 most innovative EdTech companies in the Nordic-Baltic region. HolonIQ and select Nordic-Baltic market expert ...
05.08.2020
School Day Wellbeing Now Available on Microsoft AppSource
Helsinki, Finland — July 29, 2020 — School Day Helsinki Oy, a leading school- wellbeing and SEL analytics company, today announced the availability of School Day Wellbeing on Microsoft AppSource, an o ...
11.06.2020
School Day and WholeSchools form Latin America Partnership
School Day and WholeSchools have signed a strategic partnership to strengthen student wellbeing and social-emotional learning in Latin America. WholeSchools will be representing School Day, an interna ...
18.05.2020
What the Data Says about the Wellbeing of the Student after 50 Days
Globally, we have found ourselves in a situation where both working people and learners in educational institutions have had to close their own homes and take care of their work and well-being almost ...
13.05.2020
School Day raises €1.1m in a seed round led by Sparkmind.vc to accelerate international expansion.
Student wellbeing solution provider, School Day, has secured €1.1m seed funding in a round led by Sparkmind.vc. Existing and new investors including Lifeline Ventures and angel investor John Martin, f ...
03.04.2020
School Day Shortlisted in the Coronavirus Toolkit by HundrED
To help cope with the immediate and unexpected challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic has created for education, HundrED shortlists innovations that support the mental and physical wellbeing of st ...
14.03.2020
Wellbeing of Students – How to Support It More Effectively?
Most schools have some tool for measuring student wellbeing. Most often it is a questionnaire given out to the students once or twice a year. The school will find out how many percent of the students ...
14.03.2020
School Day In Microsoft Teams!
Our team is proud and excited to announce our integration with Microsoft Teams, the leading online collaboration platform. Students can now take our wellbeing q ...
14.02.2020
School Day Web App Is Here!
In my previous post I wrote about our latest service updates and about our plans to distribute School Day Wellbeing Service to multiple platforms. Now we are ready to launch School Day Web App. ...
12.02.2020
Learning from Data
Every now and then we like to visit schools that use our service. Together with teachers and other school staff we brainstorm concrete ways to improve student wellbeing. School Day gets valuable ideas ...
28.01.2020
School Day and Eduscape Partner
School Day boosts its presence in the US by partnering with Eduscape. We have now signed a strategic business development and reseller partnership to jointly build awareness and offer solutions for so ...
08.01.2020
School Day Wellbeing - Product Update!
We start 2020 with a product update! School Day Wellbeing has gone through a massive makeover on the surface, but also under the hood. Our app for students has new features, the Insights page for ...
08.01.2020
School Day Is the First Finnish Company at SXSW Edu!
The South by Southwest (SXSW) Education Conference & Festival is an annual event that celebrates groundbreaking work in education. It fosters innovation in learning through competitions, which ser ...
08.01.2020
School Day Is a Holistic Support System for Schools
Forbes magazine listed Marc Brackett's book Permission to Feel as one of the must-reads of 2019. In his book, Brackett lists four essential features for effective SEL (social and emotional learni ...
30.12.2019
Student Wellbeing and Academic Achievement
School performance and student wellbeing have been widely studied in education and psychology, but most often separately or individually in connection to other factors in learning. Little is known abo ...
29.11.2019
Positive Development in Student Wellbeing
It is a pleasure to write about student wellbeing when there is something positive to report, and now there is! The wellbeing of middle school students has improved in many ways during the last ten ye ...
24.11.2019
News from the US
We continue to grow our network in the US. This month we traveled at the East Coast meeting educators and local businesses from the field of education. Networking in New York In New York, w ...
22.11.2019
School Day Pitch at Slush
Slush is the leading startup event in the world bringing together 25,000 people to Helsinki annually. This year we had a chance to present our unique AI-backed wellbeing solution at Slush Pitching Com ...
22.11.2019
Science Talks
School Day Wellbeing model relies heavily on research and continues to be developed with the help of educational and health scientists and professionals. Our collaboration with universities ...
11.11.2019
News from Product Development
As the year draws to a close, it's a good time to take a look at some of the latest from School Day Product Development and take a peek behind the curtain to see what's coming up in the near future. W ...
10.11.2019
We Believe in Empowering Education by Providing Data about Student Wellbeing
Many schools around the world struggle with student wellbeing. How to help your students who are lonely, lack motivation, suffer from mental disorders or don't feel safe? There are many things s ...
09.11.2019
School Day Will Be Pitching at Slush!
We couldn't be more excited! We have been selected to participate in the First Round of the Slush 100 Pitching Competition! Slush is the leading startup event in the world bringing together 25,000 cur ...
04.11.2019
School Day Offers Rich Insight into Student Wellbeing
Have you ever wondered how your students are really doing? It often happens that you ask them 'How are you?' and they answer 'Fine, thank you.' But some of them might seem a bit quiet ...
24.10.2019
School Day Travels in Europe and the US
This autumn School Day has traveled in Europe and the US discussing wellbeing with students, educators, tech developers and researchers. In Ireland we visited VSWare to discuss partnership and co ...
18.10.2019
35 Paths to Wellbeing and Better Learning Results
On our journey to amplify student voice in learning, we at School Day have developed a model with five wellbeing categories including altogether 35 phenomena, which affect learning. We collect student ...
04.10.2019
Sisu Can Be Built in Finnish School
Learning in the school can be difficult. To achieve, you need to spend time, put efforts in tedious work, and solve the challenges in the schoolwork. In other words, you have to be persistent in your ...
01.10.2019
School Day at Atea Focus
School Day Wellbeing Solution was presented at the Atea Focus event in Helsinki in early October. Both the app used by students and teachers and the dashboard used by school leaders were presented and ...
22.09.2019
School Day at Dare to Learn - Festival for Rethinking Education
At Dare to Learn Festival this month School Day competed for GESAwards. Global EdTech Startup Awards is the world's largest EdTech startup competition with more than 2,500 applications from startups a ...
13.09.2019
School Day Partners with PowerSchool to Support Student Wellbeing
School Day is teaming up with PowerSchool, a leading provider of K-12 education application technology supporting over 45 million students in over 70 countries. PowerSchool helps schools and ...
10.09.2019
School Day at Kuntamarkkinat – the Top Event of Finnish Public Administration
This September School Day spent two days at the biggest municipal fair held annually in Finland. Kuntamarkkinat, the top public administration event in Finland brings together decision makers in local ...
31.08.2019
Facts and Pedagogical Support for Schools
Students face many challenges in school. Much of it goes unnoticed, can cause many misunderstandings and shape the social relationships at school. For example, a teacher might suspect that a student i ...
31.08.2019
School Day Collaborates with Helsinki University
To kick off the fall term School Day team had a meeting with a group of wellbeing scientists at Helsinki University. Together with Katariina Salmela-Aro (Professor of Education at Helsinki University) ...
22.08.2019
School Day Wellbeing Model Analyzes, Explains and Supports Student Wellbeing
It was a year ago when first students started using our School Day Wellbeing Solution. During the past year, we have received a lot of feedback and ideas on how to further develop our model. ...
22.08.2019
School Day Is Now One of the Top10 EdTech Startups in Europe!
During the summer we have developed our wellbeing model further, both in content and in functionality. It now has hundreds of wellbeing questions for the students, and it includes altogether five well ...
08.08.2019
Back to School (Day)
It's the beginning of the school year. Families are preparing their kids for the school road, equipping them with backpacks and pencils, trying to push their sleep rhythms back to normal. Teachers are ...
01.08.2019
School Day Summer Updates
During the summer we have further built our Wellbeing Model 2.0 together with top scientists and many experienced teachers. One of the teachers is now part of the School Day team as a pedagogical spec ...
15.04.2019
Knowledge Management Empowering Quality and Equality in Education
Municipalities and schools with a desire to understand and develop pedagogical solutions, remove barriers to learning and improve student wellbeing, are moving in the right direction. These schools ha ...
13.03.2019
Book An Online Demo!
Are you interested in school wellbeing? Would you like to know more about the School Day Wellbeing solution? Now you can book a free 30 minute online-demo from School Day! In the demo we will tell you ...
11.03.2019
School Wellbeing in the Gulf Region
The wellbeing of and pupils and teachers is also a major theme in the Gulf area. The School Day team spent the last week of February in the Dubai heat at the Finnish Education Expo and GESS Dubai. The ...
22.02.2019
Five Tips Towards Classroom Wellbeing
Currently, there's a shift in the schools to focus on wellbeing in the classroom more and more. Schools in the UK have begun to implement a wellbeing curriculum into many schools throughout the UK whe ...
21.02.2019
School Day pilot in Malaysia
Mikael from School Day team is currently visiting Malaysia, where another School Day Wellbeing pilot school is about to start. The school in question is Dwi Emas International School in Kuala Lumpur, ...
12.01.2019
School Day shortlisted for GESS awards!
The GESS-fair are held again in February at Dubai. The fairs are one of the biggest among education and education technology in the world. The GESS-fair also deals out annual awards for the most innov ...
11.01.2019
School Day’s First International Pilot Begins
January 14thmarks a special day as School Day will be kicking off it's first international school wellbeing pilot together with Nätraby's School Center in Sweden. Nätraby School Center has a 110 yea l ...
13.12.2018
Smart School Concept Launch at BETT 2019
Our year starts with exciting things at BETT 2019 in London, UK. At the event we are launching completely new Smart School -concept with our partner Atea. The Smart School -concept combines study spac ...
10.12.2018
We Were All So XcitED!
We had an incredible time at Xcited which was held last week. Xcited is a side event held at Slush ever year, which focuses on Startups aimed towards education. Over 50 startups were present on the da ...
14.11.2018
School Day at XcitED
School Day heads to the The Old Student House at Helsinki for the Slush side-event XcitED on December the 4th! This event focuses on the latest solutions and trends in education technology. Key speake ...
25.10.2018
School Wellbeing in Sweden
School Day attended the EdTest event in Karlsham, Sweden on October 23rd. EdTest is an open event for local teachers and principals, where selected educational technology companies can introduce their ...
12.10.2018
Valuable Experiences From Pilot Schools
Pilot users in the School Day app have been using the app quite actively and we have already over 16,000 answers! SchoolDay has sent out a weekly summary to the students of their of their own class' a ...
06.09.2018
School Day’s First Pilots Have Kicked Off!
The past week has been an important milestone in the story of School Day, as the first classes have taken the Wellbeing application for pilot use. Interesting data has accumulated already nicely, but ...
