Why we built it

Every Friday, in child care centers across Georgia, a teacher sits down with a paper template and a binder of GELDS standards and tries to match a code to each activity she has planned. It takes two hours. She is paid for eight and worked ten. Most weeks the codes get written in on Monday morning, or the week before gets photocopied with a new date.

Then a Pre-K Specialist visits, opens the binder, and scores the plan against the IQ Guide for Planning Instruction. The activities were good. The children learned. The plan doesn’t show it.

And every August, children move up a room. What the last teacher knew — that this one needs a warning before transitions, that this one’s grandmother does pickup on Thursdays, how to actually say her name — is passed along in a hallway, if at all.

Those are two different problems with one thing in common: the knowledge exists, and the system loses it. That is all this product does. It keeps the codes attached to the work, and it keeps what a teacher knows attached to the child.

We are not trying to be your attendance system, your billing system, or your parent messaging app. Other companies do those well. We are trying to do the two things they do badly.