Interactive Health Technologies

🚨 Parents, we need your input!

We’re building something new to help families better understand their child’s stress, emotions, and emotional regulation through real-time heart rate data ❤️📊

Before we launch, we want to hear from YOU.

Your feedback will help shape a new tool designed to support:
✨ Emotional wellness
✨ Self-awareness
✨ Emotional self-regulation
✨ Stress management
✨ Stronger parent-child connection

It only takes a few minutes, and your voice could help us create something that truly makes a difference for families.

👉 Take the survey here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfkjAP3kV1Zm56LVvq029k2dE-jxbxMhpaOeW2exlc8ZvKu_w/viewform

Thank you for helping us build something better for kids and their families. 💙

We're excited to be at the SHAPE Iowa Convention today connecting with PE and health educators from across the state!

Stop by our booth to learn how the Spirit System helps teachers bring real-time heart rate data, student engagement, and meaningful wellness insights into their programs.

Every student has their own unique health journey. The Spirit System helps educators see what's happening beneath the surface by turning heart rate data into meaningful wellness insights.

Motivate students. Personalize instruction. Establish accountability. Demonstrate the impact of your PE program.

Maximize student engagement and class time with the IHT Classroom App. It’s just part of the reason why the Spirit System is a leading choice for educators.

Powerful heart rate monitor management made simple: https://ihtusa.com/iht-blog/iht-classroom-app-heart-rate-monitor-app/

Teaching PE remotely is hard. Grading it fairly? Even harder.

Without objective data, virtual PE accountability collapses into guesswork — self-reported logs, screenshot submissions, and a lot of hoping students are actually moving.

That's the problem the Spirit System was built to solve.

Heart rate data collected in real time, synced directly to the teacher, organized by student and session. No patchwork. No honor system. Real accountability, no matter where students are learning.

Read our latest blog post to learn more: https://ihtusa.com/iht-blog/virtual-pe-accountability-how-to-track-students-remotely/

Early signs of dysregulation often appear physically before they show up behaviorally. Monitoring those signals creates opportunities for prevention instead of reaction.

Schools using the Spirit System are seeing students pause, check their monitors, and self-correct … before the outburst, before the shutdown, before the referral.

Learn more about how schools are using heart rate data to help students recognize escalation before it becomes a behavioral incident: https://ihtusa.com/iht-blog/how-schools-use-heart-rate-monitors-to-help-students-self-regulate-their-emotions/

Renita Searcy, PE teacher at Whispering Pines Elementary in Humble, Texas, wanted heart rate monitors for her students but didn't have the budget. So she did something about it: she applied for and was awarded an American Heart Association grant, raised additional funds through Field Day T-shirt sales and her school's Turkey Trot, and built a program from the ground up for her 100 fourth graders. 🫀

Now, students who used to resist running are engaged. These young students can see their heart rate zones in real time, allowing them to understand what their bodies are doing and feeling.

“They can actually see what they’re doing,” Searcy said. “It’s such a game-changer. And it might even cut back on some of your behavior students or students who really are not the big PE kids. This is a new generation of kids who are all about technology. So bringing technology in, that’s what they love.”

If you're a PE teacher who's been wondering how other educators are funding edtech for their programs, Renita's story and her tips are exactly what you need. She even shares helpful tips about how to apply for AHA grant money.

Read the full blog post here: https://ihtusa.com/iht-blog/pe-teacher-used-american-heart-association-grant-to-bring-heart-rate-monitors-to-elementary-school/

A 9th grader walked into PE class weighing nearly 450 pounds.

By the next school year, he'd lost 52 pounds – not because of a fitness program, but because his PE teacher met him exactly where he was.

Using an IHT Spirit heart rate monitor, he could see his own data. His teacher gave him one goal every day: just make your body that much stronger.

"He started paying less attention to what others thought and was focused on himself," his teacher said. "And now he's got a physical difference to see for it."

This is how PE can transform a child’s life with the use of like the Spirit System.

Read more about this powerful story: https://ihtusa.com/iht-blog/high-school-students-focus-on-heart-rate-to-take-ownership-of-fitness-journey/

What if the secret to getting kids focused in class happened before they ever left PE class?

Eagles Elementary School PE teacher Tyler Hetland (in Fargo, North Dakota) uses party lighting + IHT’s heart rate monitors to help his elementary students calm their bodies and minds before heading back to class … and it's changing everything.

The result? Calmer kids, more focused classrooms, and teachers who notice the difference.

“Not only are the (heart rate monitors) and lights helpful from a classroom management standpoint, I think they are helping set our students up for a successful, healthy life further down the road,” Hetland said.

Read more about his innovative PE program: https://ihtusa.com/iht-blog/teachers-creative-pe-lighting-prompts-elementary-students-to-calm-bodies-and-minds/

🎯 Goal-setting. Safety. Independence. Self-awareness. These gains are possible when heart rate monitors are used in adapted PE. From tracking exertion to supporting IEP goals, the right can help students with disabilities thrive.

Learn more about how this educator transformed his Adapted PE class: https://ihtusa.com/iht-blog/adapted-pe-teacher-transforms-student-safety-fitness-evaluations-for-students-with-disabilities/