Train your teachers, then run it yourselves
We train one group of teachers centrally. They carry it to every branch.
Who this suits. A group large enough that us visiting each branch would never work.
- Could start
- Once at least one branch has run a full term
- What it asks of the school
- Moderate
How it runs
A small group of teachers — one or two per branch, or one per region — comes together for training with us. They build apps themselves first, because a teacher who has not built one cannot run the room.
They take back the exercises, the lesson plans and the answers to the questions students actually ask. We stay reachable for them rather than for every teacher in the group.
The teachers who ran the pilot train the next group. After the second round, the school group is teaching itself and we are support rather than staff.
What each side puts in
The school provides
- Two or three days of a small group of teachers' time
- Somebody at head office who owns the programme across branches
- A commitment to run it in more than one branch
The school gets
- Capability that stays inside the group and does not walk out with a vendor
- The same programme in every branch instead of twenty local versions
- Cost that does not rise with the number of branches
The students get
- A teacher in the room who has actually built one
- The same programme whichever branch they are in
- Answers on the day rather than after somebody emails us
How it is paid for
Training is charged once, per group of teachers, not per branch. Each branch then funds its own running costs through whichever of the models above it chooses.
There is no price on this page, and that is on purpose. What this costs to run depends on how it is taught — short exercises shared between a few students cost a fraction of what long solo projects cost — and we would rather measure that in your school than quote a number we cannot stand behind. Whatever follows a pilot is agreed in writing before the pilot begins.
The catch
This only works if head office owns it. Every group programme we have seen described that leaves it to each principal ends up as two enthusiastic branches and eighteen that never started. And we will not train teachers on a programme nobody in your group has run yet — the pilot has to come first, or the training teaches guesses.
Every model on the main page carries one of these, and the same page lists what we have not built yet. Everything we have not finished across the whole product is on our trust page.
Start with one class, one term, free.
Whichever model you end up running, the first step is the same: one branch, one teacher, one term, at no cost.
Talk to us about a pilot