Category: Yacapaca

  • How Saltash Community School uses Yacapaca to support DIRT lessons

    I had the privilege last week to interview Rachael Broad, HoD Computer Science at Saltash Community School in Cornwall. Rachael is a Yacapaca power user and our #19-ranked author. Rachael has a very clear articulation of how she uses Yacapaca. In her own words: Show clear gaps in knowledge (class based and individual student). Support…

  • Forthcoming webinars & CPD

    Yacapaca webinars run weekly on Thursdays at 4:00-4:30pm, UK time. They are designed to be of value to both SLTs making the strategic decision to adopt a formative assessment platform, and existing users who seek to extract more teaching & learning from the tool they already know and love. Because these events attract a mix…

  • How to support students at home during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Congratulations – you survived the lockdown and are now back at school. Mostly. For the moment.  It looks like we are set for up to a year of on-again off-again schooling for many of your students. The challenge has moved from how to teach 100% remotely, to how to teach some students remotely whilst still…

  • The great game: dodging blame for the 2020 A-level results train wreck

    The A-level results came out on August 13th. In the absence of exams, they were estimated from several data sources using a fairly intelligent algorithm. Results were well up on last year, yet there were such howls of anguish that the government was forced into a humiliating policy U-turn four days later. What on earth…

  • and if schools *cannot* open in September? This is Plan B

    The UK infection rate is already (Aug 2020) going up, and there is a significant risk it will explode into a savage second spike if we force 10 million school-age children into becoming active cross-infection vectors. So I think it’s time to write a Plan B, whether Boris wants one or not.