Holistic Approach to Student Engagement
Our Mission
Neelix helps schools improve the wellbeing and mental health of students, parents, and teachers. Our goal is to create an inclusive classroom culture and ensure that no student is left behind in the disengagement from education.
Education is critical for human development. We believe in the importance of character development, learning positive meta-communication skills, and the ability to appreciate perspectives of others.
′′ The only weapon capable of transforming the world... is EDUCATION ′′ - George McLaurin
Psychological Safety and Resilience
with Neelix approach and features
Increase student resilience
through real-time feedback and psychological safety
Neelix makes boring annual surveys redundant. Use journalling and gamified critical self-reflection techniques to help students cultivate a growth mindset and the ability to cope with change.
Benefits of real-time transparency for schools:
- psychologically safe peer journal promotes positive social connections
- transparency creates a safe peer-driven environment
- nurture broader life skills, such as problem-solving and positive coping skills
- promote pro-social values
- cultivate a positive attitude towards yourself
- teach purposefulness
Create cultural awareness and build staff capacity to protect mental health
Neelix reduces reliance on discreet surveys and empowers schools with real-time transparency. Awareness-based culture in education prevents negative behaviours and builds happier environments.
A whole school approach:
- school journal is secure and can be used by students, tutors, parents and any other affiliated groups
- honest and humorous reflections on learning and teaching processes brings greater appreciation
- real-time signals help wellness advocates better structure social and emotional skills programs
- principals can use an evidence-based approach to improve investment in engagement and prevention
Integrate communication skills into classroom culture
Typical Challenges
Most electronic mediums (social media or peer-to-peer chats) promote highly polarized behaviour.
People lose empathy and the ability to resolve disagreements.
The younger generation is the future workforce in training. They need to develop empathy, communication skills, and appreciation of cultural
differences. However, these skills are rarely taught or practised.
Set Up Your Student For Success
Confidential classroom journals create a safe environment for positive feedback and the practice of transparency, psychological safety, and empathy. Teachers and parents can moderate communication styles and provide additional perspective to enrich empathic learning.
Classroom journal, vote of confidence and retrospective conversation patterns represent what happens in the real world.
All successful and dynamic companies implement processes of radical transparency and introspection.
Students should learn and practice these skills to better navigate the workplace and real world environments.
Neelix promotes an inclusive classroom culture to support student resilience and wellbeing
Typical Challenges
We are all human and likely to make mistakes. Both teachers and students can make unfortunate remarks that alienate others.
It is difficult for students to provide direct feedback on gaps in teaching and learning process. It is even more difficult for the institution to have a real-time view of all faculties and classes.
Students with learning difficulties find it hard to admit that they are not receiving information, they may feel alienated and may compensate by hiding the problem. Student engagement helps to improve teaching and learning process.
Safe Solution in Real-Time Transparency
Record all the chatter in a school or classroom journal. Reflective sharing of experiences creates a self-correcting culture. Everyone gets stronger by turning mistakes into positive learning.
Humour-assisted, contextual, and measurable feedback loop that does not depend on hidden surveys is the best pattern for improving learning and teaching processes.
The experiences journal is a great way for struggling students to discover that they are not alone. Tutors can build bridges and increase interaction through repeated conversation-focused retrospectives.
Neelix™ Engagement Platform
Neelix™ platform seeks to improve engagement, encourage critical self-reflection, and group journaling to improve mental health in the community and workplace.
Skills
"The vast majority of adolescents and adults don’t acquire these sophisticated cognitive skills"
Hacker, Dunlosky, & Graesser, 2009
Feedback
"High quality feedback can improve student learning by as much as eight months"
Australia Institute for Teaching and School Leadership
Context
“Feedback has no effect in a vacuum; to be powerful in its effect, there must be a learning context to which feedback is addressed.”
Hattie, J & Timperley, H, 2007, ‘The Power of Feedback’