TEAMology

A New Era for Mental Health and Wellbeing

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Linsey Covert, Founder and CEO

The link between academic achievement and social-emotional learning has long been recognized, and schools know its profound impact on student success. Unfortunately, anxiety and stress, depression, and even suicidal thoughts have taken an unprecedented toll on students' mental, social, and emotional health. With high staff turnover rates in their industry, it is becoming increasingly difficult for school administrators to monitor and support students through these challenges.

TEAMology changes the status quo and extends the school’s support team by providing a whole-system solution that baselines, coaches, and produces actionable outcomes to strengthen a child’s mental wellbeing and mitigates issues using a proprietary triage approach. Through the use of technology, tools, and social-emotional learning (SEL) content, TEAMtalk is able to understand and support every student.

“Our vision is to provide a safe space for students to share their social, emotional, and mental health needs while also helping educators gain insight to the challenges their students face. Our MTSS-based proprietary triage approach supports students with real-time tips and strategies, enhancing their abilities to succeed in school, career, and life,” states Linsey Covert, founder and CEO of TEAMology.

Covert’s work began as a graduate student at Penn State University with her interest in learning more about the impact relationships and teamwork could have on student success. Covert’s work was validated while, as a licensed professional counselor (LPC), she witnessed countless students afraid to have an open conversation about their emotional needs with counselors. This led her to provide educators with the tools and framework to understand and connect with students to support them in their emotional wellbeing.

Covert’s 15 years of research and development established the foundation of TEAMtalk—a cloud-based student-facing platform—designed to triage the needs of students to get them help for their emotional challenges. TEAMtalk serves as a safe and supportive friend students can openly express their emotions to, and receive personalized research-based tips, strategies, and support.

It uses diverse fictional characters to promote social and emotional foundational skills in a relatable way. For instance, Ruby is TEAMtalk’s resilience character. Ruby helps students cultivate the ability to bounce back when something difficult happens and provides tips to help them overcome challenges.

These character-driven activities enable students to share their struggles and concerns in a comfortable and nonjudgmental environment. TEAMology’s six characters are also licensed and brought to life by the Pittsburgh PBS affiliate and Home of Fred Rogers, WQED, with television production using puppets created by Pittsburgh Puppet Works.

Combining the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and human intelligence, TEAMtalk gathers conversational and evidence-based assessments of a student’s emotional data in real-time and reports back to the educators about an individual student’s strengths, growth opportunities, and ways they can help increase the child’s social and emotional abilities. TEAMtalk also provides analytics for schoolwide wellbeing including trends over time. The platform takes a proactive approach by aligning to the Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS), a framework that enables educators to quickly intervene with targeted support for struggling students.

Our MTSS-based proprietary triage approach supports students with real-time tips and strategies, enhancing their abilities to succeed in school, career, and life

Integrating TEAMtalk’s SEL content into academics helps educators establish a healthy and harmonious community while effectively connecting with students and equipping them with lifelong tools to communicate their feelings and needs.

A testament to TEAMtalk’s innovative SEL content is found in a case scenario where an elementary child engaged in the Ruby Resilience Screening to gauge her level of resilience, peer and adult support to make an outlook on her life. While engaging with the screening, the student reported suicidal ideation for most of the school year and a sense of urgency to end her life. Onboarding TEAMtalk’s novel conversational screener, provided the school a documented transcript, which was later delivered to the child’s advocate. This resulted in the school support team intervening immediately and giving the child the support needed.

With these successes, TEAMology is pioneering a new beginning of advanced SEL for the education sector. The company plans to launch their student-facing enterprise TEAMtalk platform at the beginning of 2023, providing check-in, assessment, and coaching services. TEAMology is committed to simplifying, strengthening, and supporting social, emotional, and mental wellbeing for all students.

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TEAMology aims to understand and promote emotional health to increase every child's potential to excel in school, work, and life. TEAMtalk is an easy-to-use cloud-based platform for understanding and supporting children's social and emotional well-being in grades 3-8

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TEAMology Appoints Gretchen Thompson as Chief Revenue Officer

The industry-recognized edtech leader joins executive team to accelerate the company's TEAMtalk expansion

UNIVERSITY PARK - TEAMology, an international leader in K-8 social emotional support solutions, today announced that edtech veteran Gretchen Thompson will serve as the new Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). The appointment supports the sales growth and market visibility of TEAMology, an intuitive, cloud-based, student-facing platform offering real-time interaction. The comprehensive social, emotional and mental well-being solutions support children, teachers, counselors, administrators and parents by enhancing every child's ability to succeed in school, career and life.

As part of the TEAMology executive team, Thompson will lead all aspects of the company's sales, business development, strategic partnerships and marketing initiatives.

"TEAMology has prioritized our efforts to build and scale our new product, TEAMtalk, based on years of research and feedback from our K-12 industry leaders," said Linsey Covert, CEO and Founder of TEAMology. "We are thrilled to have Gretchen join our team as CRO to significantly expand our growth and elevate our mission to provide mental health access to all children during a time when they so desperately need it."

Thompson will provide school, district, community and state leaders with vital perspective into how the MTSS-based proprietary triage solution benefits student mental wellness, such as daily mental health check-ins, screening, coaching, curriculum and data analytics to strengthen mental fitness. Built from more than 15 years of Penn State University research and in-school application, TEAMology combines the scalability of machine learning with a human-centered approach.

"Gretchen's core success and stellar reputation stem from her unwavering commitment to students having access to healthy learning environments," Covert said. "We welcome her voice and advocacy to shine a brighter light onto our solutions, escalating our brand awareness internationally."

Previously, Thompson has held executive sales, marketing and strategic leadership positions with Qwizdom, Vizzle, Tales2Go, GameSalad, Gaggle, ClassLink and, most recently, with Allovue (acquired by PowerSchool in January 2024). A seasoned public speaker and coach, Thompson is certified in Women's Executive Leadership, Emotional Intelligence Leadership and The Fundamentals of Neurodiversity for Multidisciplinary Professionals from Case Western Reserve University and Florida State University.

Former district leaders and colleagues describe Thompson as someone who "leads by example, showcasing empathy, clear communications and meaningful relationships," who has an "electric personality and contagious energy with a heart for children" and is "definitely a partner we turn to for advice."

"Gretchen's district education expertise combined with her savvy business acumen brings a heavy impact to TEAMology," said Jesse Harper, Entrepreneur in Residence with Ben Franklin Technology Partners, a technology-based economic development and investment firm that supports TEAMology with access to experts, funding and resources. "We welcome her deep commitment and the passion she brings around best student learning outcomes for safe and happy children."

"We are very excited to watch and support the company's growth as TEAMology gains momentum with Gretchen's experience scaling edtech companies, while always ensuring the customer comes first," Harper continued. "We value her industry relationships in furthering our partner alliances as well."