“If you think it’s easy, you just haven’t been in a classroom lately.” Dr. VanDerHeyden compares a teacher’s day to flying a flight simulator with a million buttons while someone keeps throwing in emergencies. MTSS asks teachers to keep up intervention and progress monitoring on top of all that, but people rarely stick with hard new routines for long.
That’s why she built SpringMath to support teachers at every step. Teachers get the right materials at the right moment as printable PDFs, so there’s nothing to hunt for. The data is analyzed for them, so SpringMath points out which child needs individual intervention. Coaches and principals see live progress on a dashboard, and teachers get feedback as they go, so they can see their effort paying off. In her words, “The teacher is the surgeon. We are handing the teacher the right instrument.”
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