What are the challenges facing our students and schools and the teaching and learning in those schools?

Schools in the last five years have seen a significant increase in the number for students seeking mental health support in school.
School Administrators are spending a significantly increasing portion of their day addressing discipline referrals and concerns.
Schools are facing massive increases in chronic absenteeism.
Teachers are seeing more and more evidence of trauma responses and serious mental health concerns.
Less and less educators are entering the field leading to significant teacher shortages in many states and subject areas.

When Schools Enact Initiatives to Address These Concerns What Does the Research Show?

When students are engaged and focused in a positive learning environment academic achievement increases.
When schools have a positive and connected school culture, chronic absenteeism goes down.
Fostering kind and respectful relationships, results in less behavior incidents and referrals.
Students, Teachers and Administrators can now focus on the business of teaching and learning.

Creating a Positive School Culture
- Everyday we set the positive tone for the day in a lighthearted way. Kids look forward to each morning announcement.
- Creating a shared school experience for all students through our videos.
- Opportunities for the Roadshow to engage your whole school community such as advertising your parent teacher organization activities, special events and accomplishments.
- Opportunities for celebrating the success of students, faculty and staff.
Infuse building strong character and emotional learning into the classroom routines
- The challenges the characters experience in their adventures and misadventures teach students about understanding their emotions and those of others around them.
- Our easy to use one page teacher guides help your teachers to lead students as they discuss the puppets and thereby creating a space to share their own experiences.
- Allow a cost effective way to support school districts to develop good character, kindness, respect and responsibility.

Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) https://casel.org/
National Center for Educational Statistics https://nces.ed.gov/
Yale School of Medicine https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/new-research-published-in-child-development-confirms-social-and-emotional-learning-significantly-improves-student-academic-performance-well-being-and-perceptions-of-school-safety/