Interactive Health Technologies

This , we're thinking about what it actually looks like to support student mental health – not just in theory, but in practice, every single day.

At an elementary school in Littleton, Colorado, behavior-based incidents dropped from 17 to just three in a single school year. Suspensions dropped from eight to three. The tool at the center of it? A wrist-worn heart rate monitor.

When students could see their own heart rate rising in real time (before frustration became an outburst, before anxiety became a shutdown) they had something most kids never get: an early warning signal they could actually act on.

"Heart rate is one of the simplest and easiest ways to see how people are doing on the inside," said Littleton Public Schools Director of Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Services Nate Thompson. "The progress these students made was life-changing for them."

More and more schools are using our heart rate monitors in counseling programs, special education settings, and all-day wear for students who need continuous biofeedback support.

This May, if you're thinking about how to do more for your students' mental health, this is worth a read: https://ihtusa.com/iht-blog/how-schools-use-heart-rate-monitors-to-help-students-self-regulate-their-emotions/