Know when a student is off their rhythm — before crisis hits.
Rhythm gives school counselors a daily wellness signal on every student — identifying those who need support weeks before traditional methods catch it.
482 students on-rhythm today. Rhythm checked in with every student so you didn't have to.
The Problem
Schools are reacting. Not preventing.
By the time a struggling student reaches a counselor, weeks of silent suffering have already passed. Today's tools are slow, self-reported, and reactive.
1 in 5
Students experience a mental health condition — most go unidentified until a crisis forces intervention.
11 years
Average time between symptom onset and a student receiving professional support.
450:1
Average student-to-counselor ratio in U.S. schools. Counselors cannot see every student. Rhythm can.
How It Works
Simple for students. Powerful for counselors.
Students complete a 90-second interactive task each day. Rhythm does the rest — quietly, passively, and privately.
STEP 01
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90-Second Check-In
Students complete a brief interactive task on their school device. It feels like a game — not an assessment.
STEP 02
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Baseline Is Built
Over 10 school days Rhythm learns each student's unique cognitive rhythm — reaction time, accuracy, consistency.
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Daily Comparison
Each day the algorithm compares performance to that student's own baseline — never to peers. Deviations are flagged.
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Counselor Gets a Signal
Counselors see a simple daily dashboard — green, yellow, or red. A prioritized list of who needs attention today.
Explore By Role
Built for every corner of your school community.
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Counselors
Start every day knowing exactly which students need your attention — before they reach a breaking point.
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Teachers
See aggregate classroom wellness signals — not individual data — so you can teach to where your class actually is.
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Parents
Always know how your child is doing at school — with age-tiered visibility controls that put you in charge.
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Admin & Districts
Meet federal wellness mandates, document proactive programming, and protect your district from liability.
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Explore By Grade Level
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Elementary (K–5)
Playful tasks, full parent visibility, COPPA-first design — and the highest-leverage detection window.
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Middle School (6–8)
The highest-risk transition window. Balancing emerging adolescent privacy with robust counselor visibility.
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High School (9–12)
Student-controlled privacy, opt-out rights, and advanced cognitive tasks built for teenagers.
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Ready to bring Rhythm to your school?
We're accepting pilot schools for the 2026–2027 school year. Pilots are free, fully supported, and take less than a week to set up.
No commitment required. We'll reach out within 24 hours to schedule a 20-minute conversation.
For Counselors
Stop reacting. Start preventing.
You became a counselor to help students before things fall apart. With hundreds of students and one of you — who do you check in with today? Rhythm tells you every single morning.
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Start every day with a prioritized list — who needs you most, right now
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Track individual wellness trends over weeks and months, not just today
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Document interventions automatically for FERPA-compliant records
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Never wait for a referral or a crisis to know a student needs help
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See 3–4 weeks of behavioral signals before a student self-reports
Today's Priority Dashboard
Ms. Gutierrez · 487 students
3 flagged today
Marcus T.
Grade 6 · Off-rhythm 4 consecutive days
● Urgent
Priya K.
Grade 5 · Significant dip this week
● Watch
Devon L.
Grade 4 · New deviation pattern
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Aaliyah J.
Grade 5 · Recovering, baseline improving
● Improving
482 students on-rhythm today. Rhythm checked in with every student so you didn't have to.
Marcus T. — 10-Day Trend
10 days ago↓ Flagged today
The Science
Why behavioral signals beat self-reports.
Psychomotor vigilance research shows reaction time and cognitive consistency degrade measurably before a person is consciously aware they are struggling — capturing what teenagers won't say and often can't articulate.
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Psychomotor Vigilance
Decades of research show cognitive performance markers reliably precede self-reported symptoms of depression and anxiety by 3–4 weeks.
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Personal Baseline Only
Rhythm compares each student to themselves — not peers. A naturally slower student isn't flagged. A fast student who suddenly slows down is.
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No Self-Report Bias
Teenagers systematically underreport distress on surveys. Rhythm captures what they show behaviorally — independent of what they choose to say.
Request a counselor demo.
We'll walk you through the dashboard live and answer questions about methodology, privacy, and workflow.
No individual student data. No extra work. Just plain-language alerts that tell you what your class needs — before you have to guess.
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"Your 3rd period class has been collectively off-rhythm for 4 days."
Something is affecting the whole group — worth a moment of acknowledgment before diving in.
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"Engagement signals are highest Tuesday and Wednesday across your classes."
Schedule your most demanding content mid-week when students are sharpest.
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"Your 5th period shows signs of elevated cognitive fatigue this week."
Consider a lighter lesson or grounding activity before pushing new material.
Your Classroom Pulse
Today · Ms. Rivera · 4 classes
Live
1st Period — English 1028 students
On RhythmClass performing within normal range
3rd Period — English 1031 students
4 Days OffConsider a lighter opener today
5th Period — AP Language24 students
FatiguedCognitive load signals elevated this week
6th Period — English 929 students
On RhythmClass performing within normal range
💡 Weekly Insight
Your classes consistently perform 23% better on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Consider scheduling high-demand content mid-week.
🔒 Privacy By Design
Teachers never see individual student wellness scores or counselor flags — only aggregate classroom signals. Enforced at the data layer, not just the interface.
Why Teachers Love It
The classroom as a living signal.
Most edtech gives teachers data about students. Rhythm gives teachers data about their classroom as a system — a fundamentally more useful insight.
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Zero Extra Work
Students complete their check-in on their own device. Teachers see their classroom pulse on their dashboard — nothing to set up each day.
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Strategic Timing Controls
Teachers set approved windows for when check-ins fire. Rhythm randomizes within those windows — protecting instructional time and improving data quality.
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Weekly Patterns Over Time
After 4–6 weeks Rhythm surfaces day-of-week patterns for each class — helping teachers optimize when they schedule demanding vs. lighter work.
For Parents
Always know. Always in control.
Your child spends 7 hours a day at school. Rhythm gives you a window into their wellness — not grades, not behavior — how they're actually doing. And you're always in control.
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Your own parent login to view your child's wellness trends
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Notified immediately if your child is flagged for counselor support
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Full opt-out control — your choice, always respected, no questions asked
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No biometric data. No content monitoring. No surveillance of any kind.
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Visibility controls are age-tiered — more transparency as your child grows
🍎 Elementary (K–5)Full Visibility
✓See your child's daily wellness score and trend
✓Receive alerts when child is flagged for counselor attention
✓View counselor notes shared with you by the school
✓Opt out at any time with immediate effect
📚 Middle School (6–8)Participation View
✓See whether your child is completing check-ins
✓Receive alerts only when flagged for counselor attention
— Individual scores visible to counselors only, not parents
✓Opt out at any time with immediate effect
🎓 High School (9–12)Student-Controlled
— Students control their own data sharing preferences
✓Students can invite parents to view their dashboard
✓Crisis alerts still trigger mandatory counselor notification
✓Students can opt out at any time
A Note to Parents
We built this around your questions.
The most common question: "What exactly are you measuring?" Answer: how quickly and consistently your child responds to a brief interactive task. Not what they type. Not what they search. Behavioral response patterns only — compared to their own personal baseline.
Keystrokes • Screen content • Location • Biometrics • Camera or microphone
For Admin & Districts
Meet your mandate. Prove your impact.
Federal and state wellness mandates require documented proactive programming. Rhythm gives you the data, the reports, and the proof — before a crisis forces you to act.
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Auto-generated compliance reports for Title IV and state wellness mandates
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Aggregate wellness trends by school, grade level, and demographic
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Documented early intervention history — reduce district liability
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Grant-eligible — works with ESSER and Title IV funding streams
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Clever SSO integration — no new logins, no IT lift for deployment
District Wellness Report — Q3 2026
San Luis Coastal Unified · 3 schools
Lincoln Elementary
487 enrolled · Pilot school
94% Participation
Roosevelt Middle
612 enrolled · Week 6
91% Participation
Early Interventions
Flagged before self-report, Q3
47 students
Title IV Compliance
Wellness mandate documentation
Fully Documented
$0 additional budget required. Both pilots used existing ESSER allocation. Full district expansion qualifies for Title IV Part A funding.
Pricing — 2026–2027
Single School$2,400 / yr
Small District (2–5 schools)$8,000 / yr
Mid District (6–15 schools)$18,000 / yr
Pilot schools receive 50% founding discount in exchange for case study and reference rights.
Implementation
From signed to live in under a week.
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Day 1 — Clever Integration
Connect Rhythm to your existing Clever SSO. Students and staff are auto-rostered. No manual data entry.
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Day 2 — Counselor Onboarding
45-minute live session with your counseling team. Dashboard walkthrough, workflow questions, pilot plan review.
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Day 3 — Parent Communications
We provide templated parent letters and opt-out instructions. You review and send on your letterhead.
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Days 4–5 — Student Introduction
5-minute in-class intro. Students complete their first check-in. Baseline building begins.
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Week 3 — Counselors Go Live
After 10 school days of baseline building the counselor dashboard activates. Real flags. Real students. Real support.
What Districts Are Saying
"We went from 450 students and one counselor with no visibility — to knowing every morning exactly who needed us. That's transformational."
Director of Student Services · Pilot District
Grant Funding Note
$270M in federal student mental health grants are currently flowing to districts. Rhythm qualifies as a grant-eligible purchase under Title IV Part A. We can help you identify and apply for applicable funding.
Talk to our district team.
We'll walk you through compliance reporting, grant eligibility, and the implementation timeline for your district.
Playful tasks. Full parent visibility. Early protection.
Elementary students are the easiest to engage and the most important to catch early. Rhythm's elementary implementation is built around play, simplicity, and maximum parent involvement.
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Tasks use cartoon characters, bright colors, and simple motor interactions — never abstract or intimidating
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Parents receive full visibility into daily wellness scores and trends
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Teachers see classroom aggregate — not individual student scores
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Check-in fires during teacher-approved morning windows only
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No reading or writing required — fully visual and motor-based tasks
Elementary Student View
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Catch the falling star!
Tap when the star lands in the circle
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Task 3 of 5 · Almost done!
Daily streak🔥 14 days!
Today's badge⭐ Star Catcher
Class standingYour class was fast today! 🌟
Why Elementary Matters Most
The earlier the signal, the longer the runway.
Mental health conditions emerging in elementary school, caught early, have dramatically better outcomes than those left undetected through middle and high school.
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COPPA Designed
Every aspect of the elementary product was designed with under-13 compliance as the primary constraint — not added later.
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Play-First Design
Elementary check-ins use age-appropriate visual characters and simple motor tasks. Students experience it as a morning game — not a wellness check.
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Parent Partnership
Elementary parents receive the highest visibility tier. Daily scores, trend graphs, and real-time alerts — with full opt-out control at all times.
Middle School — Grades 6 through 8
The highest-risk transition window. Caught earlier.
Middle school is where most mental health conditions first emerge — and where the most students fall through the cracks. Rhythm balances emerging adolescent privacy needs with robust counselor visibility.
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Tasks shift to abstract patterns, memory, and spatial challenges — more engaging for 11–14 year olds
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Parents see participation status but not individual scores — preserving early adolescent privacy
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Counselors retain full visibility and flagging capabilities
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Peer-anonymous class leaderboards create engagement without comparison pressure
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Students can snooze check-in once by 15 minutes — building trust and autonomy
Class Leaderboard
Anonymous · 6th Period · Today
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Classmate
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You 🌟
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Classmate
Your class beat the school average today by +14% ⚡
Names are never shown. Positions shuffle daily to prevent identification.
The Middle School Challenge
Where most conditions first appear.
The 11–14 age window is when anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and self-harm behaviors most commonly emerge — and when students are least likely to tell an adult.
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Engagement-First Tasks
Middle school check-ins use pattern recognition, working memory, and spatial tasks — abstract enough to feel genuinely interesting to adolescents.
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The Privacy Ladder
Parents see participation, not scores. This middle-ground respects adolescent development while ensuring counselors still have full flagging visibility.
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Social Mechanics
Anonymous class leaderboards tap into the peer-social drive of middle schoolers — creating organic engagement without ranking or identifying individuals.
High School — Grades 9 through 12
Student-controlled. Trust-first. Still protective.
High school students won't engage with tools that feel like surveillance. Rhythm's high school implementation is built around student autonomy, transparent design, and opt-out rights — while maintaining the counselor visibility that saves lives.
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Students control their own privacy settings and data sharing preferences
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Students can view their own historical wellness data and personal bests
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Students can opt out at any time — no questions, no consequences
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Tasks include advanced cognitive challenges — competitive and genuinely interesting
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Crisis-level flags still trigger mandatory counselor notification regardless of opt-out status
Your Rhythm Dashboard
Jordan W. · Grade 11 · Your data, your control
Your Rhythm Score
Today vs. your 30-day baseline
88
+6 from yesterday
Personal Best
All-time reaction score
97 🏆
Sharing Settings
Share with counselorOn
Share with parentOff
Why Teenagers Engage
Transparency builds trust. Trust builds data.
The biggest predictor of participation in a high school wellness program is whether students believe the tool is working for them — not on them. Rhythm is explicitly transparent about what it measures, why, and what happens with the data.
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Your Own Data
High schoolers can see their own Rhythm scores, personal bests, and 30-day trend. The data becomes theirs — creating genuine investment in consistency.
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Advanced Tasks
High school check-ins use dual-task challenges and working memory sequences that feel genuinely hard — rewarding improvement with visible personal records.
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Opt-Out is Real
Students who know they can leave are more likely to stay. Opt-out is immediate, consequence-free, and clearly communicated from day one.
Side By Side
How Rhythm adapts across grade levels.
Every feature is thoughtfully adjusted — not just the interface skin, but the underlying data access model, parent permissions, and student autonomy settings.
For School Counselors, Teachers, and Administrators
1. What Rhythm Does
Every morning, a student sits down and plays 90 seconds of games on their tablet or computer. They're catching stars, whacking moles, matching colors. To them, it's just a fun way to start the day. To you — the counselor, the teacher, the administrator — it's something entirely different.
That 90-second session generates a behavioral fingerprint. How fast does this child react? How consistent are they? Do they jump before they should, or hesitate too long? Are they sharper today than yesterday, or noticeably slower? Over time, Rhythm builds a personal baseline for every student and flags when that baseline shifts — quietly, privately, without the student ever knowing they're being assessed.
🎯 The Core Promise
Rhythm is not a test. It is not a survey. It is not a self-report tool. It is a daily behavioral signal — captured in play — that tells you which students are showing signs of cognitive or emotional dysregulation before those signs become a crisis.
At a 450:1 student-to-counselor ratio, no counselor can check in with every child every day. Rhythm can. It gives every student a daily presence with a mental health support system — and gives you the signal you need to know where to direct your limited time and attention.
2. What the Data Actually Captures
Every game is a psychomotor vigilance task (PVT) — a clinically-validated method for measuring sustained attention, processing speed, and impulse control.
Mean Reaction Time
Avg milliseconds from stimulus to response across all hits
Most sensitive indicator of cognitive load — correlates with sleep deprivation, anxiety & depression
⚠ >850ms or +200ms spike above baseline
RT Standard Deviation
Variability in response times — how consistent or erratic the student is trial to trial
High SD indicates attentional lapses — key marker for anxiety and ADHD-adjacent profiles
⚠ SD >250ms or rising trend
Hit Rate
% of valid stimuli correctly responded to (correct taps, catches, whacks on target)
Measures sustained attention and task engagement. Low hit rate signals fatigue or cognitive overload
🔴 Below 60% across multiple sessions
Miss Rate
% of stimuli not responded to within the valid window
Tracks with sleep loss and depressive states — student saw the stimulus but didn't respond in time
⚠ Above 30% or sudden elevation
False Alarm Rate
Responses made outside the valid window — too early or after expiry
Measures impulse control — high FA rate is a marker for trauma response patterns and hyperarousal
⚠ Above 20% or rising FA + falling hit rate
Session Completion
Whether the student finished all games, quit early, or skipped entirely
Withdrawal from structured activity is itself a signal — a student who stops may be experiencing acute stress
🔴 Incomplete 3+ days in a row
Personal Baseline Delta
After 10 sessions, each score compared to that student's own baseline — not peers or age norms
Eliminates the problem of comparing a naturally slower child to a faster one. Flags deviation, not raw score
🔴 >20pts below baseline, 2+ sessions
🔒 Privacy by Design
Students never see scores, ratings, or any performance data. All behavioral data is captured silently and surfaced only to authorized school personnel. No biometric data is collected. Compliant with FERPA and COPPA.
3. What If a Student Doesn't Want to Play?
Clicks randomly / rushes through
Low session duration + near-zero hit rate + elevated FA. System flags as low-confidence.
Two or more low-confidence sessions → WORTH NOTING flag
Refuses to start
Session recorded as incomplete / not attempted.
3+ missed sessions in a week → counselor alert
Completes normally, then suddenly stops
Streak break + incomplete session flag. Sharp delta from personal baseline.
One of the most important signals Rhythm surfaces — classic early indicator of acute distress
Performance declines gradually over days
Rising miss rate, falling hit rate, increasing RT mean and SD — all tracked against personal baseline.
The primary use case — catching this before any adult notices the change
💡 The Critical Insight
A student who refuses to engage is not invisible to Rhythm — they are one of the most visible students on the counselor dashboard. Non-completion is a data point. Withdrawal from a structured daily activity is a behavioral signal. In many cases, the students who most need a counselor check-in are exactly the ones who are hardest to reach through conventional means. Rhythm surfaces them.
4. How Counselors Use This Daily
The counselor dashboard is designed for a 2-minute morning review, not a deep dive. Here's the intended daily workflow:
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Sort by NEEDS CHECK-IN. These students get a hallway check-in or brief pull-aside today.
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Scan WORTH NOTING. Any student in this category 3 days in a row gets added to your check-in list.
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Review streak breaks. Students who completed 7+ days and suddenly stopped are flagged here.
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Check non-completers. Persistent non-completers deserve direct outreach — the absence of data is itself meaningful.
📊 What Rhythm Is Not
Rhythm is not a diagnostic tool. It cannot diagnose anxiety, depression, ADHD, or any other condition. A NEEDS CHECK-IN flag is not a clinical finding — it is a prompt for a conversation. The platform surfaces signals. Counselors, teachers, and parents provide the context, the relationship, and the professional judgment that turns a signal into support.
90 seconds of play. A year of daily signals. Every student, every day — including the ones who don't want to be seen.
rhythmmentalhealth.com
Elementary K–5 · Live Demo
Student Check-In Game
This is the actual 90-second Rhythm check-in experience students see every morning. Play it yourself — your results will appear on the Counselor Dashboard tab.
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Loading game...
Students complete this daily. Behavioral patterns feed silently to the Counselor Dashboard. →
Live Demo · Arroyo Grande Elementary
Counselor Dashboard
Results from completed student check-ins populate here in real time. Complete the Student Check-In tab to see your session data appear below.
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Session Complete
New session data has been received.
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Wellness Score
Students Today
847
↑ 12% vs last week
Your Session Score
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Complete check-in to see score
Active Alerts
3
Flagged this week
Class Avg Score
74
ON RHYTHM baseline
Counselor Alert Feed · Room 12 — Ms. Torres
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Student #1042 · Wellness score below baseline for 3 consecutive days
2 days ago
Student #2187 · NEEDS CHECK-IN — significant deviation from baseline
Every design decision in Rhythm was made with student privacy as the first constraint. Here is exactly what we do and do not do — with no ambiguity.
What We Measure
●Reaction time to interactive stimuli
●Task accuracy and response consistency
●Check-in completion patterns
●Deviation from each student's personal baseline
What We Never Measure
✕Keystrokes, screen content, or browsing history
✕Location data or GPS
✕Biometrics — no camera, no microphone
✕Social media, messages, or personal accounts
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FERPA Compliant
All student data is protected under FERPA. We are a school official under FERPA and handle data accordingly — with full contractual accountability.
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COPPA First for K–5
Our elementary product was built with COPPA as the foundational constraint. Parental consent flows, data minimization, and retention limits are all built in from the start.
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Data Minimization
We collect only what is needed to generate a wellness signal. No surplus data is stored. Aggregated classroom data has all individual identifiers removed before teacher delivery.
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Enforced at the Data Layer
Teacher-level privacy restrictions aren't just an interface choice — they're enforced in the API. Teachers cannot query individual student data even via API access.
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Right to Deletion
Parents and students (at the high school level) can request full data deletion at any time. Deletion is complete and permanent within 30 days, across all systems.
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Annual Audit
Rhythm undergoes annual third-party privacy audits. Audit results are available to district partners upon request. We believe accountability requires external verification.
