New simplified check-in for TK-2 students

July 15, 2025
Impacts students
Impacts emotional check-in
Impacts simplified check-in
Impacts SEL
Impacts screener
Impacts academic check-in
Impacts MTSS
Impacts teachers
Impacts admin
Impacts alerts
Impacts reporting

The Emotional Simplified Check-In is designed to be more accessible and engaging for our youngest learners by including features such as:

  • Read aloud
  • Talk-to-text
  • Picture choice questions
  • Sentence frames
  • More emoji options – color-coded in alignment with the Mood Meter & Zones of Regulation frameworks

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For students:

The Simplified Emotional Check-In is a 3-step check-in:

(1) Students will be asked to select an emoji that represents how they feel from an expanded set of emojis.

(2) Students will select a reason for their feeling from a multiple choice list.

(3) Finally, students can expand on their answers using a sentence frame generated from their previous selections.

Note: The final step is optional. Students can submit their check-in without entering a reflection by clicking the check-mark button.

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Step 1: Select an emoji.

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Step 2: Select a reason.

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Step 3: Use talk-to-text to complete the sentence.

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We have multiple accessibility features available for students, including read aloud for the check-in prompt and for teacher responses, talk-to-text, and language translations.

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Students can use read aloud to listen to teacher responses, reflections questions, etc.

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Talk-to-text is now available!

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The entire Sown To Grow platform, including the simplified check-in, is available in 6 languages!

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For teachers:

Within the Simplified Emotional Check-In, teachers can respond to student reflections as usual. Emerging readers can use read aloud to listen to their teacher’s responses.

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If you’d like to use this new check-in with your students, your school administrator can create and assign the Simplified emotional check-in module to your classroom.