A lot of teacher surveys ask how the new edtech is working. Very few ask how the teacher is actually doing. I said that out loud today during a conversation @boardyai set up for me with someone who works across EdTech and K-12. Saying it to a stranger made something I’d been wrestling with while we build the @evolvinginedu Educator Intelligence Layer much clearer. Schools collect a lot of feedback about tools: Did you like it? Did it work? Would you use it again? Those questions have value. But they don’t tell us much about workload, support, school climate, unmet needs, or the everyday reality of classroom experience. And that gap matters. Teachers are leaving the profession, while the pipeline of people entering it isn’t keeping pace. Educators are also the most significant in-school influence on student learning. When we support one educator well, the impact can extend to hundreds of students over time. That’s why we’re starting with teacher voice about overall needs, rather than asking teachers to rate another product. Our goal is a survey that takes about 5–7 minutes. Teachers already have enough on their plates. A feedback tool shouldn’t become another burden. But the conversation also highlighted some harder questions: Would this actually fit into a workflow teachers already use? Are administrators actively looking for a better way to understand these needs? We haven’t answered those questions yet. And honestly, that’s important. We don’t want to build something simply because we think it should exist. We want to understand whether it solves a real problem in a way that works for the people who would actually use it. We ask teachers to rate the tools. We rarely ask about the day they used them in. Educators, when was the last time a survey asked about your day? #TeacherVoice #EvolvingInEducation

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