Virtual Family Well-being Nights with Ami Shah Transformative Principal 505

<hr /> <p>Ami Shah is the Co-Founder and CEO of <a href= "https://www.peekapak.com">Peekapak</a>, an award-winning social-emotional learning platform that engages elementary and middle school students to learn skills like self-regulation, empathy and teamwork and reaches over 450,000 educators and students. Peekapak does this using stories, evidence-based lessons, and game-based learning. Behind-the-scenes, teachers, and administrators receive real-time reports showing a student’s progress and emotional state.  This empowers educators to be proactive in helping curb future mental health issues. Educators can share pre-written class updates, activities, and stories with families to reinforce learning at home in English and Spanish.</p> <p>Peekapak is backed by; Silicon Valley-based accelerator, Imagine K12, the Edtech vertical of Y Combinator and the Unreasonable Institute.</p> <p>Ami has earned an MBA from INSEAD, a BBA from Wilfrid Laurier University and is passionate about improving youth education, and has previously taught in K–4 classrooms and advised & volunteered at education-related non-profit organizations. Ami has been featured on Toronto Life, Flare, TechVibes, CBC and numerous other outlets.  Ami has also spoken on topics such as social-emotional learning, student well-being, and mental health and education technology. Ami has spoken at conferences such as SXSWedu, Future of Education Technology Conference, LearnLaunch, ASU GSV and many more.</p> <ul> <li>Overcoming the barriers</li> <li>Interviewed over 300 educators to find out if SEL is actually important.</li> <li>It’s really hard to fit this in if it’s not required.</li> <li>Weren’t taught this, how am I expected to teach this to my students</li> <li>Shouldn’t parents be teaching this?</li> <li>How to involve parents in SEL.</li> <li>Family Well-being nights</li> <li>How to be a transformative principal? Help people feel heard.</li> </ul> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <h3 id="pikmykid"><a href= "https://pikmykid.com/be">Pikmykid</a></h3> <p>Imp