by teachers for teachers
LISA's unique Teacher's Desk makes it simple for busy teachers to create and deploy writing activities and assessments.
Use one of the pre-existing activities or easily create your own in next to no time.
Save and students can access the work instantly.
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lisa from your desk
Concise Rubric
lisa has been carefully designed to teach and assess the mechanics of writing across four conventions.
These conventions, and their supporting sub-conventions, enable all staff to be teachers of literacy.
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IDEAS
Students write to share ideas and detailed information about them. Effective writing has central and supporting ideas, along with details such as statistics, dialogue, or stories that elaborate those ideas.
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VARIETY
Students use a variety of words, sentence types, language features, and the correct level of formality (register) to add impact and effect to their writing.
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ORGANISATION
Students organise their writing to help the reader understand them. This organisation must be appropriate to the purpose of their writing, e.g. to persuade readers to agree with something or take a specific action.
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ACCURACY
Students spell correctly, and use punctuation and grammar (syntax) accurately to help others understand their writing.
LISA aligns with different international curricula including the Common Core State Standards, the new Australian Curriculum, and the New Zealand Curriculum including the latest literacy changes.
Ai Principles
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ORIGINAL LEARNING
We design solutions that foster students' original knowledge, thinking, creativity, and effort.
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GUARDRAILS
We will design our AI with appropriate guardrails (including cultural awareness), and help schools teach students how to leverage AI positively - identifying and mitigating its misuse.
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TEACHER FOCUS
Our designs keep teachers at the heart of teaching and learning.
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SCHOOLS AS HUBS
Our work supports schools as social (human) hubs of teaching and learning.
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CONNECTED INNOVATION
We foster teacher-led innovation ... listening and adapting to AI opportunities and issues as we collaborate with teachers and school leaders.
Our Story
Add over 20 years experience in education at all levels and across the globe, to AI expertise in USA, Australia and New Zealand ... and you get teachplus.
Our vision is to support better teaching, by teachers, in the classroom and beyond. We do this by working with teachers and school leaders to design AI solutions that are 'crazy-easy' to use and enable teachers to spend more time on the high value parts of their work, such as interacting with students.
The power of formative assessment
Some people make a big deal about summative vs. formative assessment. But they shouldn't because both are the same tool used differently.
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Summative assessment is when we grade students' work to check that it's met a required standard ... and inform OTHERS such as higher grade teacher, a national qualification authority, or employers. This makes them high stakes.
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Formative assessment is when we grade students' work to check that it's met a required standard ... and inform STUDENTS.
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We use summative assessment to end a learning conversation and formative assessment to start one.
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That's the power of lisa!
Now any writing activity can be graded instantly and used to provide feedback to students ... without teachers giving up their evenings or weekends.​​​​
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Try it now with your students. Put lisa to the test!
SUMMATIVE assessment is a grade with one dot.
FORMATIVE assessment is the same grade with three dots...
Teaching for gen-ai
Tomorrow's teachers will be Gen-Ai teachers. Gen-Ai teachers combine traditional skills with technology and data literacy.
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KNOWLEDGE RICH
They're fluent with their learning area's content, and able to navigate it to match students' progress.
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RELATIONAL
They know their students well and adapt their teaching to meet students' individual needs.
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DATA LITERATE
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They understand data and use it effectively to inform their teaching.
Our Values
partnership
We collaborate with others to learn together and help each other to succeed.
fun
We love education, technology and business, and we want to enjoy them with others.
honesty
​We act with honesty and integrity.
simplicity & quality
We design solutions that are reliable and 'crazy-easy' to use.
people
We design and build solutions for people.
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We invest in our staff to see them grow and succeed.