PatchUp Summer Education Student BSI

PatchUp is a web-based resource that offers a smarter, more scalable way to support classrooms by addressing behavioural needs through technology and innovation. Designed to assist students during moments of dysregulation, PatchUp provides interactive emotion regulation activities that can be used independently or alongside support staff, making it a flexible solution across a variety of contexts. In addition to directly supporting students, each interaction with PatchUp provides schools with insights into behavioural patterns and classroom disruptions that often go undocumented. These insights enable more strategic decision-making, enhanced student support, and help guide incoming class complexity teachers, ensuring this new resource is used where it’s needed most.
Our current priority is to deepen our understanding of the complex challenges students and classrooms face, along with the diverse strategies educators use to manage them. This knowledge directly informs both the overall product strategy and the finer details of design and implementation. Gathering meaningful insights requires collaboration with an experienced educator—particularly someone who has managed real classroom disruptions, ensuring the product remains grounded in real-world needs and is truly effective in practice. Therefore, addressing this problem requires someone with direct classroom experience and who understands the realities of teaching.

Faculty Supervisor:

Jay Wilson

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Partner:

PatchUp

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Saskatchewan

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