I’m excited to announce a new partnership with Thrively, an online service that helps parents and teachers guide K-12 students through a journey to develop their strengths, interests, and aspirations!
What does this mean for KidFriendly DC? With this collaboration comes curated Activity Boards that highlight our top recommendations for kids’ pursuits around the area — all at a glance. You can view the selections on a single board with visual appeal and link to the source to learn more, sign up, or purchase tickets. Of course, you can also find KFDC reviews on just about all of them here on the blog, too!
This new feature is launching with two summer boards: Outdoor Family Fun and Indoor Family Fun, and there will be more to come! You can find them under the Special/Seasonal tab.
Thrively is a personalized strength based learning tool that is used in over 60,000 schools nationwide. While it is predominately used by educators, parents can also create a free account to use it. The Activity Boards are presented as a unique way to inform its community of all the great activities and experiences that are right in our backyard to help enrich kids’ lives and learning as they discover their strengths and interests.
Go check them out and let us know what you think!
Looks really interesting but the site expects a code to add a child. It looks like the kids need to create accounts with their email address to get that code. I am not giving a web service my children’s email addresses to email them. Seems like Thrively is looking for access to my kids — that’s not acceptable. Kind of surprised that you are advocating it.
Hi Amy – Thanks for your comment! There may be some confusion over what Thrively is and how it works. Thrively is a personalized strength based learning tool that is used in over 60,000 schools nationwide. The core offering is a Strength Assessment developed specifically for kids — over 400,000 kids have participated and learned of their Top Strengths!
While Thrively is predominately used in the schools by educators, parents can also create a free account to use it. Your child’s name and email is not required unless you want him or her to actually take the Strength Assessment.
The Activity Boards are presented by Thrively as a unique way to inform its community of all the great activities and experiences that are right in our backyard, which is very much aligned with my mission. The Activity Boards can be viewed without creating a Thrively account.
If you’d like more information on Thrively feel free to contact lisa@thrively.com.
Wow this is amazing!