Welcome to Kula EdSM, a world of new possibilities for your students’ learning and social development.

Welcome to Kula EdSM, a solution designed to help children and young adults with communication challenges socially connect, grow and thrive.

“ Give your child as much life experience as possible. He or she will draw from that in their learning.” EM, Special Education Teacher, West Hartford, Connecticut

Traditionally, the home and school operate in parallel. Kula Ed changes that by creating new pathways for meaningful communication.

The goal of every educator is to help each child develop the ability to explore, discover and make lasting connections with the world around them. Kula Ed is a collaborative process developed to support that goal.

Kula Ed unites families, teachers and therapists to form a supportive community.

Life experience can provide context for learning, allowing the child to emerge with increased awareness.

As the building blocks of social connection are established, the child’s world expands to include others.

HOME SCHOOL

Web-based and intuitive, Kula Ed is a 360° process that helps families and schools join together to electronically capture, share and leverage their insights to further a child’s learning and social development.

Kula Ed is

• Password protected

• Easy to set up and use • Able to follow each child

from pre-K through high school and during their transition into the work world

• Developed by families of loved ones with communication challenges

• Affordable for school systems

SELF-AWARENESS

LEVERAGEDLEARNING

SOCIAL INTERACTION

Kula Ed facilitates an ongoing cycle of self-awareness, leveraged learning and evolving social interaction in both the school and home.

Kula Ed provides• A secure, collaborative environment that supports

communication between home and school

• Tools to highlight a child’s preferences, activities and learning objectives

• Methods that complement the schools’ existing programs and IEP requirements

• Built-in translation capability for up to ten languages

• Support for richer teaching and learning opportunities

• Caregivers with a broader knowledge of the child’s social experiences outside the home

• Opportunities for the child to develop a deeper sense of self-awareness and belonging

• Possibilities to help children establish a path toward peer relationships

When Kula Ed’s tools are used together and leveraged as one process, exciting things can happen.

• Self-awareness improves

• Similarities and common interests emerge

• Meaningful steps toward social engagement and relationship development begin

• Electronically unites caregivers, teachers and therapists in a unique 360° child-centric process

• Integrates with and is easily accessed through a school’s existing website and mobile devices

• Helps keep the child’s entire team updated on activities and plans with and for the child

• Allows schools to easily and cost-effectively archive daily communication logs

• Makes it easier for the child’s team to recognize and reinforce new connections, behaviors and skills, and more quickly address potential gaps

Kula Ed was developed by families of loved ones with communication challenges.

For more information on Kula Ed, please visit us at ValereToConnect.com.

Kula Ed is a service mark of Valere, Inc.Valere, Inc. Copyright 2015. All rights reserved.

Kula Ed is different from teachers’ conventional communication notebooks and tools because it:

“ All children should have the opportunity to develop rich relationships with those around them. After seeing a student connect with her peers in a meaningful way, I knew that

Kula Ed is where the magic happened. These tools greatly impacted my student. They allowed the children to understand that alongside the differences are a lot of similarities. We need to cultivate cultural sameness in our society.“

CA, Elementary Teacher, Simsbury, Connecticut