How It Works
Social-Emotional Capacity with Digitability's Social Economy
Digitability Behavior Model
Connecting Choices to Real-World Outcomes
Students practice self-regulation, communication, problem-solving, and decision-making through real-world routines that help them understand how choices affect school, work, relationships, money, and independence.
Digitability's Social Economy uses the best, evidence-based practices for teaching workplace behavior.
Digitability’s Social Economy streamlines social and emotional skill development to teach self-advocacy, social skills, self-regulation, and problem-solving in the workplace.
Simultaneously, students develop financial literacy, while paying bills and maintaining a budget using the Digitability virtual currency and online banking system, Bankability.
Bankability's Social Economy helps educators teach self-regulation, workplace readiness, social skills, self-advocacy, and financial literacy through one integrated system students experience every day.
Using evidence-based practices and differentiated implementation pathways, Bankability helps students develop self-awareness, behavioral regulation, and decision-making skills that support success in school, work, and life.
What Students Practice
Each skill is taught through workplace language, classroom routines, reflection, and real-world decision-making.
Time-On-Task
Students practice staying focused, completing work, and understanding how attention impacts productivity.
Following Directions
Students connect listening, processing, and task completion to workplace expectations.
Impulse Control
Students learn to pause, reflect, wait, and choose replacement strategies before reacting.
Communication
Students practice expressive and receptive language through workplace scenarios and guided discussion.
Anxiety & Confidence
Predictable routines and repeated practice help students build confidence in a safe environment.
Self-Advocacy
Students learn to ask for help, identify strategies, communicate needs, and reflect on progress.
How the Model Works
1. Define
Students learn what the behavior looks like in school and work.
2. Practice
Students role-play and rehearse workplace-ready responses.
3. Earn
Positive workplace behaviors are reinforced through Bankability.
4. Reflect
Students review choices, outcomes, earnings, and strategies.
5. Grow
Students set goals and build independence over time.
Bankability Makes Choices Visible
Through earning, paychecks, deductions, budgets, bills, and account balances, students see how daily choices connect to real outcomes.
Students earn for workplace-ready behaviors.
Students review paystubs, balances, and patterns.
Students connect choices to outcomes.
Students set goals and try new strategies.
Help Students Practice the Skills They Need Most
Digitability helps teachers turn everyday classroom behaviors into teachable moments that build self-regulation, communication, workplace readiness, and independence.
Request a DemoDesigned by experts in the area of education, behavior and work-ready skills, Digitability’s Social Economy is built on a progression of skills that help students move from awareness to independence.
Bankability's Social Economy helps educators teach self-regulation, workplace readiness, social skills, self-advocacy, and financial literacy through one integrated system students experience every day.
Instead of teaching behavior, financial literacy, and workplace skills as separate subjects, Bankability connects them through meaningful real-world routines. Students earn, bank, spend, save, and manage their classroom dollars while learning how their choices impact opportunities, relationships, and outcomes.
Using evidence-based practices and differentiated implementation pathways, Bankability helps students build the self-awareness, accountability, and decision-making skills needed for success in school, work, and life.
What Are Some Common Workplace Social Skills?
Through daily participation in the Social Economy, students develop skills such as:
- Following Directions
- Self-Regulation
- Flexible Thinking
- Problem Solving
- Accepting Feedback
- Communication
- Self-Advocacy
- Accountability
- Workplace Readiness
Streamlining the Best, Evidence-Based Practices
Teachers who are trained in Digitability's Social Economy are empowered with research-based practices, without the need for more schooling or additional training.
Digitability's one-of-a-kind training and coaching helps teachers with all levels of teaching experience apply these practices simply and efficiently.
How Does Digitability's Social Economy Empower Students?
Students access technology to create media for their ideas and completed workplace tasks.
Students build confidence and self-efficacy by presenting their work and interpreting questions and feedback.
Students practice and internalize the ability to self-advocate and interview.
Teaching Boundaries and Social Skills for the Workplace, Along with Financial Literacy.
Simultaneously, students develop financial literacy while managing their earnings and classroom budget. Teachers use the Digitability Social Economy to monitor progress and measure outcomes.
Through Bankability's virtual banking platform, students earn classroom dollars for demonstrating workplace behaviors, receive paychecks, manage bank accounts, set financial goals, pay bills, and make spending decisions.
These financial routines transform abstract behavior lessons into meaningful learning experiences. Students don't simply hear about accountability—they experience it.
While these dollars are not legal U.S. currency, their real value lies in the skills they teach students. Students learn to interact within a real economy by paying bills for desk rent, internet use, and gym membership, as well as buy privileges like snacks and preferred activity time.
As students progress, their financial choices become opportunities to practice planning, budgeting, self-regulation, problem-solving, and decision-making in a safe and supportive environment.
The goal isn't to teach money.
The goal is to use money as a tool to teach independence, accountability, workplace readiness, and the life skills students need to thrive beyond the classroom.
The Social Economy provides the framework. Bankability provides the experience.
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