"Mental health is also a priority. Through Switch for Schools, an Australian emotional wellness program, FIS tracks daily emotional shifts. During one visit, the Consul General of Finland noted how Japanese families in the community felt so at ease that it hardly seemed like they were living abroad. This, says Agarkar, reflects what international education in India can aspire to be - helping both expat and local families navigate change with greater ease."
Switch4Schools is recognised by HundrED as one of the top global innovations in wellbeing education. It’s praised for its evidence-based, whole-school approach to emotional health, using real-time data and AI-driven strategies to support students and teachers.
Strategies to make better decisions when managing tricky parents and difficult students.
Education Today published this article by our cofounder Phil Slade. To read more great articles like this, check out our blog section.
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Switch4Schools is recogniced by ARACY under the ACER wellbeing program guide.
Transforming lives through emotional intelligence
OUR MISSION
Building a Better Future
Switch4Schools mission is to increase emotional intelligence in individuals all over the world to improve mental health and wellbeing, and solve some of our our big social, economic, environmental, and political challenges.
We do this by building simple, practical and effective digital tools for that can be scaled globally, but impact locally.
Better individuals, better communities, better world.
Continuous improvement
With human centred design core to everything we do, we are constantly translating insights from leading researchers, and feedback from schools, to improve and make SwitchSchools better. We have a infinite mindset, always looking to better ourselves and increase our impact.
WHO WE ARE
Meet the Founders
We believe it is not only possible to balance impact and profit, we think they are essential to each other in building a sustainable, impactful company. At heart we are all about people, the ones we work with, for, or alongside. Emotional intelligence has the power to transform relationships, heal communities, and build a better future for everyone, and Switch is all about building that competence in practical, inclusive, sustainable, and scalable ways.
Phil Slade
Philosopher
Psychologist, teacher, musician, author, researcher. Developing models like the emotion wheel and the SDMF, this is translational research in action. Phil is Co-CEO.
Roshelle Weir
Pragmatist
Digital Learning and Development expert, instructional design and HCD practitioner. Ideas are cheap, making it happen is where the real genius is! Roshelle is Co-CEO
Sam Yang
Techologist
Back-end and front-end integrator, digital architect, data wrangler, dev master and technological genius. Sam makes sure everything works, is secure, and keeps working! Sam is CTO
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