Send secure mental wellbeing check-ins, link teachers to support and produce reports showing action taken on their feedback.

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Teaching is an emotionally demanding profession, burnout and turnover are on the rise. These issues influence academic outcomes. Sending check-ins linked to wellbeing support helps prevent or resolve issues like teacher burnout early. The data guides strategic improvement. And, the act of checking in makes teachers feel valued, which forms great culture and optimal performance.

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<aside> <img src="/icons/user-circle-filled_red.svg" alt="/icons/user-circle-filled_red.svg" width="40px" /> Potential use cases

• Track burnout and the impact of changes on burnout
• Give teachers an always available outlet to share concerns and access support
• Use teacher wellbeing feedback to make strategic changes
• Identify and resolve serious issues early
• A more meaningful and authentic internal feedback process focused on wellbeing </aside>

<aside> <img src="/icons/chat-user_red.svg" alt="/icons/chat-user_red.svg" width="40px" /> Example of Skodel in action

• Identification: A private and safe space that encourages people to share how things are going.

• Control measures: An immediate response in place for everyone.

• Alerts to assess and triage risks: Safety and risk managers will be notified of and can triage concerns and maintain a digital audit trail of these concerns.

• Reporting tools: Clear trend and group reporting to highlight areas of concern and areas that are working well.

• Value: Early identification and resolution of risks via a safe and auditable process. </aside>

Key considerations in wellbeing and mental health software

1. Security: Coppa and Ferpa certified, and passed individual security assessments from education institutions such the Victorian DoE. Skodel is also currently undertaking the ST4S assessment.
2. Liability collecting sensitive data: Skodel ensures sensitive issues are responded to appropriately and support is documented to mitigate liability risks. Works with recognised legal and people and risk teams to support its approach.
3. Diversity and multilingual capability: Skodel’s app can be translated into multiple languages to support diverse user groups.
4. Integration capability: Integrates with key LMS, SIS and communication platforms like Teams. SSO capabilities with Google and Microsoft.
5. Evidence based: Co-designed alongside Andrew Fuller who is one of Australia’s leading clinical psychologists for family, schools and young people. He is also a Fellow of the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Learning and Educational Development at the University of Melbourne.
6. Anonymity: Skodel can be run anonymously or identifiably.
7. Existing internal survey systems: Are you using other internal feedback surveys? It’s worth assessing where you want to focus your internal survey efforts, what you want to achieve with these and if Skodel can fit in or replace existing approaches. We make the case for having an internal feedback system focused on wellbeing in this article here.

Getting started

1. Strategy session with leadership - define roles and responsibilities, key outcomes, actions to take and metrics to track.
2. Technical setup - upload users via a CSV and/or carry out necessary integrations.
3. Introduction - send an email out to all people introducing Skodel (Skodel has email templates for you).

🏃🏽 Interested in getting started?