Kid Power
Product by Classroom Champions
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Our take (not a Learning Standard rating). This label applies to learning-science judgments throughout this overview.
Our take (not a Learning Standard rating)
Kid Power focuses on behavioral motivation and social-emotional learning rather than traditional academic instruction. It successfully uses prosocial rewards to encourage physical activity and brain breaks. While it promotes kinesthetic engagement, it does not explicitly teach core academic subjects using cognitive science principles.
Pros
- Connects physical activity to prosocial outcomes, leveraging intrinsic motivation for positive behavior reinforcement.
- Provides structured kinesthetic brain breaks that help reset student attention spans between academic tasks.
- Introduces fundamental social-emotional learning concepts through real-world global impact scenarios.
Cons
- Lacks explicit instruction or spaced retrieval practice for core academic subjects.
- Relies heavily on extrinsic rewards to drive ongoing user engagement.
- Does not provide individualized feedback or adaptive pathways based on student comprehension.
What Do We Know About Kid Power?
Kid Power is effective for building social-emotional awareness and encouraging physical activity, but it is not a tool for teaching traditional academic subjects. Your child will not learn math or reading here. Instead, the platform focuses on behavioral development and kinesthetic engagement. The core mechanism is a token economy linked to prosocial behavior. When your child completes exercise videos or brain breaks, they earn digital currency that translates into real-world therapeutic food packets for undernourished children. This connects immediate physical effort to global empathy. From a learning science perspective, these brain breaks are highly valuable. Brief periods of physical activity help reset cognitive load and improve focus for subsequent academic tasks. However, the app relies heavily on extrinsic motivation. While unlocking meals is a powerful initial hook, the novelty of this reward system may wear off over time without intrinsic engagement in the activities themselves. Because The Learning Standard has not yet fully evaluated this program in a classroom setting, we cannot confirm long-term engagement rates. Use this app as an energetic supplement to break up your child's study routine, rather than a primary educational resource.
How Does Kid Power Work?
Kid Power uses a prosocial token economy paired with kinesthetic learning videos to drive physical and social-emotional development. Your child selects from a library of short, active video modules designed to get them moving. These function as structured brain breaks. As your child follows along with the physical activities, the system tracks their participation. Completion of these modules triggers a reward loop. The platform converts your child's physical activity into digital coins and real-world impact metrics, specifically the funding of therapeutic food packets distributed by global charities. This explicit link between action and consequence is designed to build empathy and global awareness. The interface is highly visual, showing progress bars and impact trackers to visually reinforce the connection between the student's effort and the charitable outcome. There is no traditional assessment, quizzing, or spaced repetition. The instructional loop is entirely action-and-reward based, focusing on gross motor skills and behavioral reinforcement rather than cognitive knowledge acquisition.
Strengths and tradeoffs of Kid Power
Kid Power's biggest strength is its use of prosocial rewards to motivate physical activity, while its biggest weakness is the complete absence of core academic instruction or cognitive feedback loops. Connecting movement to empathy is highly effective. By linking physical exertion to real-world charitable outcomes, the platform gives students a tangible reason to participate. This prosocial framing taps into a deeper level of engagement than standard digital badges. Additionally, the platform provides excellent kinesthetic brain breaks. Cognitive science shows that interspersing academic work with short bursts of physical activity reduces cognitive overload and restores a student's capacity for sustained attention. However, the app lacks instructional depth. Because there is no retrieval practice, spaced repetition, or formative assessment, it does not build academic memory. Furthermore, the reliance on extrinsic reward systems can sometimes undermine a student's intrinsic desire to simply be active. Once the reward is removed, the behavior may stop. Finally, there is no adaptive difficulty. Every student experiences the same video content regardless of their physical baseline, meaning the platform cannot scaffold learning for individual needs.
Who Might Benefit From Kid Power?
Kid Power is best for elementary and middle school students who need structured movement breaks connected to social-emotional development. It serves as an excellent classroom or homeschool supplement when your child experiences screen fatigue or declining attention during traditional academic work. Educators and parents aiming to foster empathy and global citizenship will find the charitable reward system highly useful. It is not suitable for users seeking academic tutoring, mastery-based progression in core subjects, or individualized cognitive instruction.
Data Transparency
Does Not Meet Data Transparency Standard
Kid Power does not meet our data transparency standard. Its privacy policy does not document basic protections, including a commitment against targeted advertising, a COPPA or FERPA commitment and parents' right to delete their child's data.
14 of 35 checks passed
Evaluated September 2026
Privacy Policy →Level 1 · Basic protections
Does not sell data or target ads at students, limits sharing, and lets parents see and delete their child's data.
Not documented: a commitment against targeted advertising, a COPPA or FERPA commitment, parents' right to delete their child's data
Level 2 · Parent control (meets the standard)
Families can get their data out, know who processes it, and know how long it is kept.
Not documented: data export, a data retention timeline, self-service deletion
Level 3 · Direct data access
Families or schools can pull their own data through an API, in a stated format.
Not documented: an API for retrieving their own data, a named export format
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Parent Access3/8
Does the policy mention parents specifically?
“Parents and Teachers are examples of Account Holders.”
Can parents view their child's data?
“Outside of daily leaderboards, individual Participants’ data will not be publicly available, and instead will only be available to the Account Holder and any follower(s) of the Participant.”
Can parents modify their child's data?
The policy's correction rights cover Account Holders' own information and do not mention parents changing their child's data.
Can parents delete their child's account?
The policy does not say parents can delete their child's data or account.
Is there a dedicated Children's Privacy section?
The policy has only a "Note to Parents and Teachers" in its introduction, not a section headed as children's privacy or COPPA.
Does it reference COPPA compliance?
The policy does not mention COPPA.
Does it reference FERPA compliance?
The policy does not mention FERPA.
Is parental consent required for child accounts?
“Kids under the age of 13 years old (“ **Kids**” or “ **Kid**”) are not permitted to participate in Kid Power without your approval, as either their parent, guardian or teacher.”
Data Portability2/5
Can users access their personal data?
“If your Personal Information changes, you may correct, update, amend, ask to have it removed from our Services or deactivate it by making the change on your member settings page, by emailing our Customer Support at [hello@gokidpower.org](mailto:hello@gokidpower.org)”
Can users download/export their data?
The policy does not offer a way to download or export data.
Is there a self-service data access tool?
“you may correct, update, amend, ask to have it removed from our Services or deactivate it by making the change on your member settings page”
Is a specific data format mentioned for export?
The policy does not name any export format.
Is there an API for data access?
The policy does not mention an API for getting data.
Data Minimization4/6
Is data collection itemized?
“Personal Information we require may include full name, mailing address, email address, and phone number. This information is combined with year of birth, and additionally school name when registering a Kid Power School account.”
Can the app be used without a real name?
“We do not collect Personally Identifiable Information (PII) for minors.”
Can the app be used without an email?
“We do not collect Personally Identifiable Information (PII) for minors.”
Does it state collection is limited to what is necessary?
“We collect the minimum amount of information needed to provide a quality experience”
Is IP address anonymized or truncated?
The policy says it collects IP addresses and does not say they are anonymized or truncated.
Is location tracking explicitly excluded?
The policy does not rule out location tracking.
Third-Party Protection4/7
Does it explicitly state no selling of data?
“We will not sell or rent your Personal Information to a third party”
Are third-party providers named?
“- Google Analytics - Google Tag Manager - Hotjar”
Are providers contractually restricted?
“In addition, our employees and contractors who provide services related to our Websites or Mobile Applications are obliged to respect the confidentiality of any Personal Information held by us.”
No-targeted-advertising commitment?
The policy makes no promise against targeted advertising, and it lists advertising trackers such as DoubleClick and Facebook Custom Audience.
Is AI/ML data sharing addressed?
The policy does not address AI or machine learning.
Child-specific sharing restriction?
“Outside of daily leaderboards, individual Participants’ data will not be publicly available, and instead will only be available to the Account Holder and any follower(s) of the Participant.”
Cookies/tracking limited or opt-out?
The policy points to an opt-out but describes no actual tracking opt-out, and it says Do Not Track signals are not honored.
Deletion & Retention1/5
Can users delete their account?
“If you no longer desire our service, please contact customer service. We will respond to your request within 30 days.”
Self-service deletion mechanism?
The policy describes asking for removal and deactivating information, and it does not clearly describe a deletion tool that users run themselves.
Specific data retention timeline?
The policy keeps data for as long as the account is active or as needed, with no specific timeline.
Auto-deletion of inactive accounts?
The policy does not address automatic deletion of inactive accounts.
Post-deletion handling described?
The policy does not describe how data is handled after deletion, beyond keeping it as needed for legal obligations.
Advertising0/4
Advertising model explicitly disclosed?
The policy does not state whether the product has an advertising model.
Free from third-party advertisements?
The policy does not state that the product is free of third-party ads.
Children excluded from ad targeting?
The policy does not explicitly exclude children from ad targeting.
Ad-free option available?
The policy does not mention an ad-free option or say the product has no ads.
What This Means
The policy review did not meet our data transparency standard. The checks above show the documented findings and unknowns. A missing statement does not establish how the app handles data in practice.
About this evaluation: Based on automated analysis of Privacy Policy against 35 policy-disclosure questions, including questions adapted from the Common Sense Privacy Program's published evaluation questions. TLS is not affiliated with Common Sense Media, and this is not a Common Sense rating. Quoted text is copied from the policy; unquoted notes are our summary. Results describe what the policy documents, not the company's actual practices. Privacy policies can change: this review reflects the version we analyzed and does not determine legal compliance.
Sources and review method
TLS combines product information and editorial analysis to explain how Kid Power works, its tradeoffs, and the questions to ask before choosing it. Product features, an instructional rationale and evidence of learning outcomes are different kinds of information.
Formal Learning Standard assessment: not yet completed. Data Transparency findings are reported separately and do not establish learning effectiveness. Read our methodology.
Frequently Asked Questions About Kid Power
Is Kid Power free?
No, pricing requires contacting the vendor directly. Classroom Champions typically licenses this platform to schools and districts, so individual parents should check with their local school to see if a subscription is already available.
What does Kid Power teach?
Kid Power teaches social-emotional skills, empathy, and the importance of physical activity. It does not teach traditional academic subjects like math, reading, or science. The curriculum focuses on prosocial behavior and global awareness.
Is Kid Power good for elementary students?
Yes, elementary students are the ideal demographic for this platform. The direct correlation between their physical activity and helping other children is concrete enough for younger learners to grasp, making the prosocial reward system highly effective.
How does Kid Power compare to GoNoodle?
Kid Power and GoNoodle both provide kinesthetic brain breaks, but they use different motivational hooks. GoNoodle focuses on high-energy, entertaining content with silly digital rewards. Kid Power differentiates itself by linking movement to real-world philanthropic outcomes, fostering social-emotional development alongside physical health.
Has The Learning Standard evaluated Kid Power?
TLS has not yet completed a Learning Standard evaluation of how well Kid Power teaches. Its privacy policy has been reviewed for Data Transparency and does not yet document the basic protections (Level 1).
Is Kid Power COPPA compliant?
A COPPA reference was not found in the reviewed privacy policy. This does not determine whether the app complies with COPPA. Policy review note: The policy does not mention COPPA.
Is Kid Power FERPA compliant?
A FERPA reference was not found in the reviewed privacy policy. This does not determine whether the app complies with FERPA. Policy review note: The policy does not mention FERPA.
Does Kid Power have a children's privacy policy?
No dedicated children's privacy section was found in the reviewed policy. Policy review note: The policy has only a "Note to Parents and Teachers" in its introduction, not a section headed as children's privacy or COPPA.
Does Kid Power sell student data?
The reviewed policy states that the app does not sell data. This is a policy statement; actual data practices were not verified. Policy review note: The policy says Kid Power will not sell personal information.
Can you delete your data from Kid Power?
The reviewed privacy policy describes account deletion. We have not tested the deletion process. Policy review note: Users can ask to have their information removed and to end the service.
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