A school board can tell you how last year's cohort performed against a provincial benchmark. What it usually can’t tell you is whether the student who was placed in a small support group back in October is catching up by December.  The further [...]

Which students are actually responding to the support layered onto their day, and which aren’t?    That is the question facing district leaders and school principals across the US, who have a bird’s-eye view of dashboards, aggregate scores, trend lines and data points on a daily basis, but can struggle to [...]

Ravenswell Primary School doesn't fit neatly into one box, and that's rather the point.   It's a Catholic school under the local diocese, government-funded, home to around 450 students spread across three classes at every year level – plus two–three classes dedicated to supporting children with additional needs  – [...]

“We really, really do love Mathletics.”  Those words – spontaneous and genuine – came from Anna Jones, a Reception–Y1 teacher and maths leader at Bryn Awel Primary School in Rhymney, Wales. And throughout our conversation with Anna, those two words kept appearing together: “love” and “Mathletics.”  This sentiment [...]