Our team was privileged to attend the NewSchools Summit 2018 in Burlingame, CA from May 8-9. NewSchools is an organization that funds entrepreneurs seeking to innovate and improve public education. The NewSchools Summit is an invite-only event that brings together leaders in education innovation. Attendees included educators, administrators, business leaders, and more. For the 20th […]
Author: Ami Shah
Getting Parent Consent for Student Use on myPeekaville
We’re excited for your students to start playing myPeekaville! To provide access to students, we need to ensure their parents provide consent. To secure this easily from parents, all you need to do is: Visit Peekapak.com, click on ‘Students + Parents’ and click ‘Download Consent Letters’ […]
How to guide: Student Logins for myPeekaville
We’re so excited that you’ll be one of the first classrooms to use myPeekaville, our online learning game! The magic of myPeekaville is that each of your students has their own account to explore the world of Peekaville and you’ll be able to track student progress. myPeekaville supplements the lessons found on www.peekapak.com and, therefore, […]
Integrating Peekapak into a PBIS School
At Peekapak, we love hearing about how educators use Peekapak to meet their student and classroom needs. So when Sue Mallmann, a first grade teacher from Lakeview Elementary School in WI, told us she uses Peekapak to support her schoolwide PBIS (Positive Behavioral Intervention Supports), we said: “Tell us more!” When Lakeview Elementary School implemented PBIS as […]
Children’s Books for Teaching SEL
As we know, the first years – preschool and early elementary school ages – are critical for social-emotional learning (SEL) development. Identifying and regulating emotions, awareness of others and self, seeing and respecting different perspectives, making friends and developing relationships, and learning to walk in someone else’s shoes (empathy), and more, are developed in these […]
Teacher Spotlight: Lisa Hinshelwood’s 5 Tips on Teaching SEL
Peekapak is excited to have Lisa Hinshelwood, SEL teacher at The Nueva School, CA, talk to us about how she teaches Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) and offering 5 tips she has for other educators based on her experience in the field of SEL, psychology and early childhood development. Peekapak: Lisa, why have you made it your […]
Teacher Spotlight: Lindsay Snyder, 2nd Grade Teacher
We are so happy to have 2nd grade teacher, Lindsay Snyder, at Anderson Elementary in Dixon, California, share her experience with Peekapak. Lindsay was among our earliest users and her thoughts and feedback have been invaluable to helping us shape Peekapak. What was your first impression of Peekapak? Lindsay: When I found Peekapak I was actively […]
Teacher Spotlight: LeaAnn Brannan Midtovne from Epic Endeavors Preschool
Assistant Director of Epic Endeavors Preschool in Rochester, MN., LeaAnn Brannan Midtovne, speaks to us about how she uses Peekapak in the classroom. Do you feel there is a need for social-emotional learning programs? When I was a Special Education teacher in a large public school district, I saw first hand the significant need for a […]
4 Guiding Principles for Early Learning & Technology Integration: Review of Official DOE Policy Brief
By Dr. Jennifer Williams, Professor for Saint Leo University in the College of Education As Peekapak founder, Ami Shah, and I set out to create an immersive and interactive session for our upcoming FETC presentation titled “Trending Topics in Early Literacy: Practices and Tools for the Early Childhood Classroom,” we sought ways to share relevant, research-based […]
Case Study: Peekapak at NOLA Micro Schools
Introducing Amika Kali, Elementary Studio Guide at NOLA Micro Schools in New Orleans, LA. Amika talks to us about how she uses Peekapak at her school. The Need for Character Education I was motivated to use Peekapak after having a discussion with our school founder, Kim Gibson, about implementing a character education program that our students could […]