Our Approach
At The Happy Sad Company, we range from 8-year-old grown ups to 50-year-old kids. Read more about our business rooted in the CASEL framework, and our FunStorming design processes below.
Social Emotional Learning
Social emotional awareness
We support students on their journey to learn social emotional awareness including identifying one’s emotions, spelling and recognition.
Teacher insights & reporting
Feel empowered with easy-to-use trends and insights. Combine our data into reports or IEPs for parents, administrators and schools.
Trends & early intervention
Ongoing trends for how kids are doing emotionally provides the ability for teachers to report on and design interventions, earlier.
Rooted in the CASEL Framework
We have worked collaboratively with teachers, students and our Chief Resident Psychologist David Zeitler to ensure our entire platform and our resources are embedded in the CASEL framework. Our team works diligently to ensure that our application meets the requirements for CASEL’s path to wellbeing.
Student-Led Design & UX
Funstorming
When we brainstorm, we have fun. We let there be time for silly and make sure we have all kinds of inspiration around us, including students & teachers from differing backgrounds.
Sketching & Drawing
We sketch or doodle product and UX ideas in pen/pencil/felt tip pens and use these designs to inspire our platform experience.
Product & UX Feedback
We take these funstorming sessions, build out the best products for students and teachers and ask them for feedback.
How We Use AI
AI-Insights Generator Tool
Have you ever had to sit down with a parent and chat about wellbeing or behavior, but you aren’t sure what to say and you’re prepping for 10 or 20 of these discussions? With our AI-Insights Tool, teachers can use our patented tool to create this readout quickly & feel confident its rooted in REAL data from your classroom & students.
Student Wellbeing Outcomes
As parents, we wanted to understand our students’ ongoing wellbeing when we started Happy Sad. The Student Emotional Score(TM) is a proprietary native AI technology that provides unique insights into the ongoing wellbeing trends of your classroom and each of your students.