Education

Student participation in class discussions is dominated by a few volunteers, and randomly calling on students leads to unpreparedness and no accountability.

AP teacher spends nearly an hour entering grades after each test across three class periods, so they built a custom tool to speed it up.

An elementary school elective teacher struggles to balance a relaxed, fun classroom environment with maintaining enough order to prevent disruptive chatter during independent work, and needs effective consequences for rude students.

Creating a multi-group summer camp schedule with constraints on student group counts, teacher availability, prep time, and subject allocation is a complex puzzle that requires manual trial and error.

A new teacher struggles to prepare daily lesson plans and decide what to say and how to teach multiple subjects, especially for students with low reading skills.

Math teacher pressured to achieve an unrealistic 70% student growth goal on NWEA assessments, which is tied to job evaluation.

Kindergarten students frequently ask to use the bathroom during music class, causing disruptive interruptions, and the teacher lacks an effective system to manage these requests without halting instruction.

Teacher struggles with an inadequate science curriculum but has limited time and resources to supplement it, resorting to multiple unreliable workarounds.

High school teacher needs better methods to detect and prevent student cheating, especially with fake phones.

Student teacher cannot assess individual student writing skills because supervisor requires copying from the board instead of independent writing.

Teachers need a strategy to help students independently spell words without relying on the teacher or a computer, but existing approaches like 'show me your best attempt' are not time-efficient or effective for building problem-solving skills.

Student finds manually creating flashcards and quizzes from lecture notes time-consuming

A teacher struggles to use 1-to-1 device textbooks effectively with below-grade-level students who cannot read well, and needs strategies to teach primarily from physical textbooks while accommodating low literacy and behavioral challenges.

Teachers want to create their own language course from scratch but lack a structured process, timeline estimate, and tooling for sourcing authentic reading/listening materials.

Teachers are asked to provide unpaid labor for student psych evaluations conducted by external psychologists.