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1-2-3 Wellness supports healthy behavior by teaching students to regulate emotions before challenges escalate. Each student learns personalized, proactive, preventative, healthy wellness practices designed for their unique needs. For students who have struggled with behavior, the system empowers them to adopt healthy alternative outlets for their emotions and energy like stretching, journaling and more instead of resorting to challenging behaviors. Daily check-ins, wellness practices, and student support dashboards help educators identify students who may need Tier 2 or Tier 3 support and respond proactively, making the system a strong support for behavior, regulation, MTSS, and school climate.

1-2-3 Wellness’ research-based approach empowers students to prepare their brains and bodies to learn. The daily check-in empowers students to prime their brains for learning, communication and problem solving (by accessing their prefrontal cortex). Meanwhile, data dashboards allow educators insights into emotional or behavioral patterns that may affect student’s academic performance. The system supports student wellness and learning readiness by helping schools address barriers to academic engagement, participation, and performance.

1-2-3 Wellness supports attendance and engagement by helping schools identify emotional, behavioral, or wellness-related barriers that may contribute to absenteeism. Research out of Missouri Baptist University conducted by Dr. Middendorf and colleagues revealed that 1-2-3 Wellness increases attendance at schools. After all, students want to come to a school that is more healthy and welcoming.

1-2-3 Wellness helps strengthen school climate by building consistent wellness language, increasing emotional awareness, and giving staff insight into student and staff wellness trends. The research-based system supports belonging, positive relationships, calmer classrooms, staff modeling, and a more connected school community. Over 71% of students at 1-2-3 Wellness schools report feeling that their school is a more “happy, healthy place to be” once the system is implemented.

1-2-3 Wellness supports MTSS improvement by helping schools identify student needs earlier and organize support across universal, targeted, and intensive levels. Daily check-ins, dashboards, alerts, and personalized strategy recommendations make the system a strong MTSS-aligned support for Tier 1 wellness, Tier 2/3 intervention planning, and data-informed student support. You and your team can literally press a button and see which students may need tier 2 (yellow) and tier 3 (red) support based on their emotional and wellness data.

1-2-3 Wellness enables students and educators to save time in several ways. Students learn healthy, personalized habits that enhance their ability to calm their bodies and brains for learning. With a “click of a button” on their powerful data dashboards, educators can see which students are feeling different emotions real-time and have data-based interventions at their fingertips for each student along with classroom and schoolwide trends. The system saves time by helping staff quickly identify needs, reduce classroom disruptions, and respond with targeted support instead of guesswork.

1-2-3 Wellness enhances staff collaboration by offering school leaders insight into the school-wide climate and offering data-based wellness practices. The powerful school system can decrease adult stress by virtue of the powerful, yet simple tools, help strengthen communication, offer shared language, adult self-care, and help schools cultivate a more cohesive school culture. Some of the powerful resources are for adult wellness only. For example, each staff member is invited to participate in a 21 day self-care video challenge guided by short powerful videos that empowers each adult to create a practical self-care plan

1-2-3 Wellness helps students regulate emotions and prepare their brains for greater attention, motivation, and participation. The research-based system supports learning readiness, wellness, and student engagement by reducing the time educators spend re-engaging distracted students and helping staff respond to focus and motivation challenges more effectively. Put simply, student’s brains are more ready to focus and learn.

1-2-3 Wellness supports positive student-staff and peer relationships by building emotional awareness, shared wellness language, and proactive insight into schoolwide wellness trends. The system strengthens school climate, belonging, family and community engagement, healthy relationships, and more positive interactions across the school community.

1-2-3 Wellness can serve as a complementary part of a school’s mental health efforts by providing students with research-based ways to regulate their emotions and learn simple, healthy outlets that can last a lifetime. When coupled with school resources and efforts led by teachers, counselors, mental health professionals and administrators, the system can help support schools in strengthening wellness, prevention, and early support. The educator dashboard and MTSS tools can also help offer staff greater visibility into student needs. The 1–2-3 Wellness system offers supports which are educational in nature. While the system is not intended to treat or diagnose any physical or mental health issues, educators and admin can support students in powerful ways by discovering concerning patterns earlier, enabling them to connect students with appropriate resources before challenges escalate.

1-2-3 Wellness empowers students to manage stress through brief daily check-ins, wellness practices, and emotional regulation tools. Students are offered healthy outlets for their stress. The powerful school system supports prevention and early identification while strengthening student wellness, resilience, school climate, and readiness to learn. Dashboards help staff notice patterns earlier and intervene before disengagement becomes chronic, helping students stay present, connected, and ready to learn.

1-2-3 Wellness includes staff wellness lessons and daily practices that support educator regulation, resilience, and capacity. The system strengthens professional learning and educator capacity by helping staff model wellness for students, improve classroom climate, and sustain student-support efforts without adding extra workload by streamlining student and staff wellness needs onto one easy-to-use platform.

While school leaders and their organizational personnel are in charge of suicide prevention efforts, 1-2-3 Wellness can help them notice signs of emotional distress earlier while offering students regular opportunities to express their feelings and needs. Students can develop coping skills and healthy outlets proactively. The 1–2-3 Wellness system offers supports which are educational in nature. While the system is not intended to treat or diagnose any physical or mental health issues, the system can strengthen prevention, early identification, tier 2 and 3 MTSS support, and staff capacity by helping schools recognize concerning wellness patterns or words and help school leaders connect students with appropriate support.

1-2-3 Wellness is built for short term and long-term student success. Our library of wellness tools include structured wellness lessons, daily self-regulation practices, and student engagement supports that can be used in afterschool, summer, and enrichment settings. The system supports lifelong learning by empowering students to build healthy daily emotional habits designed to fit into their busy lives now and for the rest of their lives.

1-2-3 Wellness helps schools identify students who may be struggling silently through real-time wellness data, dashboards, alerts, and support-level insights. The system supports early identification, MTSS-aligned intervention, referral support, and student wellness visibility so staff can act before problems escalate.

1-2-3 Wellness helps schools move beyond one-size-fits-all approaches by identifying personalized wellness strategies and tracking what works for each student. The system gives educators practical, individualized strategies for improving regulation, engagement, behavior, and academic readiness.