SuperBetter Classroom was created to offer schools practical and engaging ways to improve student mental health, resilience and life skills. Treatment alone won't end the youth mental health crisis. We need preventive models that work upstream to empower skills & resources that reduce anxiety & depression prevalence. SuperBetter fills the gap for a proactive, school-based model that is evidence-based, accessible & globally scalable.
SuperBetter is a mindset intervention. Educators have been teaching the Growth Mindset for nearly 20 years. Now they can teach the SuperBetter Mindset to empower resilience, mental health and life skills.
The SuperBetter Mindset is easy to teach, and creates a powerful mental framework that uses the psychology of game play to empower success in all of life. The SuperBetter Mindset can be taught in classrooms and afterschool programs. It is also a safe and supportive framework for mentoring and coaching.
Educators can teach the SuperBetter Mindset using a tech-enabled platform, or without technology, using curriculums and gameful activities.
The tech-enabled platform brings SuperBetter to life in the classroom, fostering a culture of thriving. Teachers reinforce the gameful language & methodology, and host challenges that students complete on the SuperBetter app.
Teachers use a web-based Host dashboard to form student squads and host SuperBetter challenges for them. They select challenges from a library or create their own. The challenges improve social, emotional, mental & physical resilience skills. Squad challenges have 5-days of activities to achieve its goal. Students spend ~10 minutes a day completing real life activities prompted by the SuperBetter app (iOS, Android, web). Teachers allocate classroom time and can also use a flipped classroom model to have students complete activities outside of class.
Over 1 million people have used the SuperBetter app. SuperBetter Classroom is spreading by word of mouth. SuperBetter has a TED Talk with 9 million views (Jane McGonigal's 'The Game That Can Give You Ten Extra Years of Life') and a New York Times best selling book, SuperBetter, The Power of Living Gamefully that are popular with educators and create awareness & excitement for SuperBetter and our classroom innovations.
We partnered with Phoenix Foundation in Zambia to pilot and develop a curriculum for educators in low resource schools without access to technology. The 'SuperBetter Children' curriculum teaches the SuperBetter methodology and how to apply it to overcome life's challenges. It is available to educators in developing countries, and is now being used by additional partners in Zambia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria.
A partnership with BrightBound is teaching the SuperBetter Mindset to diverse teens in the U.S. as a digital curriculum. SuperBetter is the 3rd most popular program among 100+ curriculums offered in their EvolveMe career empowerment platform. The SuperBetter online curriculum has a 99% completion rate. More than 70,000 students completed the SuperBetter curriculum last year.
We added new products to the SuperBetter Classroom platform to create greater value for schools.
We now offer professional training workshops to teach the SuperBetter Mindset to school leaders, teachers and staff. The 90-minute workshops are offered virtually and in-person.
We also offer curriculums that teach the SuperBetter Mindset as an overlay to existing courses (as little as 10 minutes of class time a week), and as an 8-week stand-alone course. These curriculums were developed in partnership with Indiana University.
We are currently developing two new SuperBetter Classroom offerings as part of an R&D partnership with Northern Illinois University that is funded by a grant from the state of Illinois (USA).
Teacher retention and burnout are top concerns of many schools. We are developing a video-led Teacher Wellbeing Program that empowers student-facing staff to use the SuperBetter Mindset for their own mental health & wellbeing. In the process, it creates excitement for how they can use the gameful framework with their students.
The mental health crisis is causing learning obstacles. A new Classroom Toolkit makes it easy for educators to use the SuperBetter Mindset to help students overcome learning obstacles related to mental, emotional and social wellbeing. The Classroom Toolkit features 10-minute activities delivered as cards. It does not require technology.
Schools and other organizations can schedule a presentation and demo by sending an email to alliances@superbetter.com.
Teachers can visit SuperBetter.com to learn about the classroom product, watch demo videos, read about the science, and subscribe to a Host account for their classroom.
