BrightNow! Social Emotional Wellness

BrightNow! is a team of educators, musicians, artists, and innovators dedicated to creating tools for educators and families that support the social-emotional wellness of young learners. Through music, movement, and interactive programs, teachers are supplied a support "tool-kit" that is highly engaging and rewarding for kids. The supports are addressed and integrated into the lyrics, lessons, and activities in a way that enables a teacher to incorporate them into lessons and day-to-day activities, and are deliverable online or in-person. This is vital at a time when public health policies can cause interruptions and changes for young learners. BrightNow! programs will keep kids engaged and will positively impact their social emotional wellness. 

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BrightNow! LLC is a partnership of educators, musicians, professional development specialists, and education policy advocates. Research demonstrates that social, emotional, and behavioral difficulties are now among the top five challenges impacting children. Schools are struggling to meet the social and emotional needs of students, resulting in growing populations of students identified as needing special education services, experiencing chronic disciplinary actions, resulting in a  disconnection from school and a need for mental health services that far exceeds the current availability of financial and human resources in most schools.  Teaching students how to self-regulate, communicate their needs, resolve conflict in a peaceful manner, and show compassion, empathy, resilience, and kindness conveys critical skills necessary for their success not only in school but in life.  

BrightNow! with partners, CAIU 15, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, Penn Literacy Network, PATTAN, PBS, WITF, local artists and musicians, has developed a Social Emotional Wellness toolkit. Adapting the “I do, you do, we do'', transferable skills philosophy and through carefully crafted artists in residency programs and other out-reach projects\programs BrightNow! is developing an alternate model to deliver and learn content. Our training enables teachers to continue using the new methods to connect with young learners and introduces new ways for young learners to connect with various concepts. As the pressure to make up lost learning intensifies, now more than ever, educators are encouraged to engage, accelerate, and care, all at the same time. Investing in engagement strategies to entice students back into a culture of learning, accelerating students’ access to grade-level content by teaching lessons, and caring for students in ways that integrate social and emotional literacy using music and the arts as an integrated approach to instruction is proving to be beneficial.  

BrightNow! programs were tested and refined during a time when public health policies caused interruptions and changes for young learners, BrightNow! programs are keeping kids engaged. By adding content and artists, as well as teacher training co-curated with our partners, our programs are now being effectively delivered either in-person or virtually. BrightNow! is positively impacting students’ social-emotional literacy and wellness.  

BrightNow! is a team of educators, musicians, artists, and innovators dedicated to creating tools for educators and families that support the social-emotional literacy and wellness of young learners. Through music, movement, and interactive programs, teachers are provided with a support "tool-kit" that is highly engaging and rewarding for kids. The supports are addressed and integrated into the lyrics, lessons, and activities that empower a teacher to incorporate them into day-to-day activities, and are deliverable online or in-person. This is vital at a time when public health policies can cause interruptions and changes for young learners.