Scale App
The Top Social and Emotional Communication Tool for School Communities
With the #SameHere Scale, we have worked with school professionals, graphic designers, world-renowned psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, and social workers (as well as focus groups of students and parents) to create an easy-to-understand (mental health continuum, or) “scale” that puts everyone in the school community on the same page with respect to a non-diagnostic common language that can be used to express how our mental health may change over time. The scale is a visual representation of long-studied, evidence-based Polyvagal Science developed by Dr. Stephen Porges.
Students in your entire school are easily able to use the #SameHere Scale Apps to share their responses with your teachers and/or your school professionals – daily, weekly, monthly, and engage in private, secured chats related to those responses.
This proprietary scale is different from all other social and emotional tools available because it allows for schools to track, in a linear way, the cumulative impacts of life events and how they affect our students. They can then tie together those answers on the scale to track how they are related to: events taking place in their lives, sensations they are noticing in their brains/bodies, and self-care exercises they are doing/can be doing to work on their social and emotional health. Teachers and school professionals, as well as administrators can then notice trends related to each student and communicate efficiently about the best SEL game plan for students, all on the same platform.
SameHere Scale For Your School Or District
The SameHere Scale App is available in an enterprise model for individual schools and districts of all sizes
To accommodate all users in all school settings, the app may be accessed on personal devices, iPads, chrome books, and desktops. If you are interested in a deep dive into how the app works for schools, click here to see more information.
Fill out this form below to request your own promo codes so that you can demo the enterprise group version of the SameHere Scale app for schools and districts, for a week. That access is gated, and downloading the apps alone will not enable proper testing. We look forward to hearing from you:
SameHere Teacher
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For more information or to sign-up your school or district, so that we may upload your info for use, and provide you with passwords, fill-out the form above, or contact us at schools@samehereglobal.org
For Students & Teachers
Enhancing Mental Health Conversations in Schools
Introduce shared language around how your students are doing and break down communication barriers. Reach out to bring #SameHere SCALE to your classroom or school district.
Get Started with #SameHere Scale
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Students are prompted to share how they’re feeling on the #SameHere Scale daily.
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Teachers, School Counselors, and/or Administrators receive student responses and feedback, as well as track response trends
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Teachers and/or School Counselors can recommend/assign STARR Exercises to students based on trends they are seeing
Optional/customizable elements are as follows:
- Teachers can share their own placement on the scale to facilitate more open communication
- Teachers can change the general notification (‘how are you feeling today?’) to something more specific, such as ‘how are you feeling related to the topic we’re learning today?’
- Students can share commentary related to their submitted feeling
- Students can “safebox” their commentary if they are not comfortable sharing it publicly with their teacher just yet
- Students and teachers can engage in a secure discussion via the chat feature
- All users can track trends based on responses over time
FERPA, COPPA, HIPPA Compliant