Building foundational skills for learning and for life.

The Aperture System, home of the DESSA, is the #1 solution for strengthening social and emotional skills.

Discover Strengths. Empower Growth.

Scale Your Impact.

8,000+

schools

3,000,000

students

156,000

educators

Foster Resilient School Communities.

Resilient school communities thrive on positive relationships between students, teachers, and caregivers. Aperture Education provides the tools and support to create opportunities for meaningful interactions, preparing students for a lifetime of success and wellbeing.

Empower Students

Elevating student voice gives students agency in learning and in life. We help drive student engagement through self-reporting and goal setting to establish a growth mindset. Our program captures data from student perspectives for equitable insights so they can put their strengths into practice.

Empower Educators

Aperture understands that educators are the center of learning. Supporting the social and emotional knowledge, skills, and wellbeing of your educators and staff is vital for them to support their students. We provide educators with professional learning opportunities to hone their own social and emotional competence, empowering them to be proactive and preventive advocates for student mental health.

Deliver Outcomes

Aperture Education helps schools and educators create a nurturing environment conducive to academic success and emotional wellbeing. Through the DESSA’s evidence-based, innovative assessments and DESSA-aligned support strategies and tiered interventions, we consistently help foster resilience, empathy, and self-awareness so that students can thrive academically and as responsible and compassionate individuals in their communities.

The DESSA In Action

Kannapolis: Setting Students Up For Success


"Teaching doesn’t happen until love and respect happen in the classroom. And I’m grateful for this program and all of these different strategies that help develop that and give us the data to back it up. Over the course of 2 years, our pilot schools reported that referrals had been cut in half and out-of-school suspension assignments had been reduced by 76%."

- Humble ISD Humble, Texas

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