Peekapak is an award-winning social-emotional learning (SEL) platform that engages kids in PreK through grade 8 to help them develop abilities like self-regulation, empathy, and teamwork.
They provide students with the agency to explore a personalized learning environment where they can apply what they learned in class to practice through interactive activities, storytelling, and SEL assessments.
A Holistic Approach To Education
The Peekapak program is divided into two sessions, the elementary and middle school program.
- Elementary (PreK-5)
The elementary program caters to students from PreK to grade 5. The elementary solution session is an easy-to-use, educator-led curriculum with levelled readers and fully-planned learning activities to help students develop SEL and build reading and writing skills.
These sessions build literacy skills. Their programs are ELA standards-aligned and are fully integrated. Their levelled readers and fully-planned learning activities assist children in building resilience, mindfulness, and self-regulation skills to help them handle challenging situations and develop empathy and other emotional characteristics, along with reading and writing skills.
Through Peekapak’s stories, lessons, family activities and learning games, students learn SEL skills by solving fun problems. For example, in myPeekaville, Peekapak’s learning game, students experience SEL concepts in the context of an interactive story while developing a shared language.
Their engaging stories are available at four guided reading levels in English and two levels in Spanish. These levelled readers, offered in 10 SEL themes both digitally and in print book sets, assist you in differentiating instruction across all elementary learners.
- Middle School (6-8)
The Middle School session provides programs to students from grades 6 to 8. It includes Peekapak’s ready-to-teach units, lessons and human-interest stories that help support SEL and English Language Arts (ELA) development.
Middle School Solutions include a step-by-step curriculum that guides learning the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) competencies while supporting reading and writing instruction.
The curriculum features real-life, human interest stories that showcase a wide range of diverse perspectives and relevant learning experiences for middle school aged-students. In addition, the curriculum includes engaging challenges for students to put learning into practice and internalize the lessons.
The Company With A Mission
Peekapak was co-founded by their CEO Ami Shah. She began her professional career with Procter & Gamble as a Marketing Director, worked with social entrepreneurial organizations in Vietnam, India, and Canada, and taught in K–4 classrooms. Ami is an MBA graduate from INSEAD and holds a BBA degree from Wilfrid Laurier University.
The Peekapak team led by Ami is passionate about the education space and is committed to helping children become successful, compassionate, caring, and empathetic citizens of the world.
Peekapak emphasizes imparting social-emotional learning skills so that concepts like gratitude, perseverance, and respect become not just ideas they are exposed to but a part of their identity.
They strive to accomplish this mission by building a company and a curriculum that makes SEL fun, easy and seamless for teachers, parents and especially children, thereby turning learning effortless.
Their core values emphasize practicing what they preach, understanding and feeling the positive impact internalized SEL can have on social and emotional well-being. They believe it is possible to imagine more creative and equitable solutions to their problems while working with diverse voices and perspectives toward a common objective.
With a learner’s mindset, Peekapak approach SEL with curiosity and open-mindedness. They are comfortable with not knowing, questioning assumptions, and seeing unlimited possibilities in the challenges around them.
Building Change Through SEL Solutions
As an initiative company, Peekapak doesn’t wait for change to happen but rather takes things into their hands. Their system-wide data solutions allow educators and administrators to monitor students’ progress using a data-analytics tool embedded within the curriculum.
They build holistic SEL plans for schools that offer engaging curriculum, professional development, and print and family engagement resources. Thereby helping students learn, practice, and internalize CASEL’s five social-emotional learning competencies through their award-winning stories, lessons, and digital games.
They carefully designed these original stories, characters, and illustrations with help from experts to support educators and parents in teaching early childhood and elementary students SEL and literacy skills. Every detail is carefully crafted so students relate to, engage with, and learn from the content.
Peekapak’s robust digital platform brings SEL to life for students and provides engaging literacy-aligned SEL content for elementary (PK-5) and middle school. For more information and to avail of their expert services, visit their website at https://www.peekapak.com/.
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