Teacher’s Sidekick is the classroom tool built by a coach who watched teachers quietly give up on behavior tracking — not because they stopped caring, but because it took too long.
A student does the right thing. You have about three seconds to acknowledge it before the moment passes and you’re back to teaching.
Most behavior tools ask you to unlock a phone, open an app, scroll a roster, find the child, choose a category, and tap. By the time you’re done, the moment is gone — and after a few weeks, so is the habit.
Sidekick uses a QR code. On the desk, on the badge, on the folder. Scan it, the point is logged, you keep teaching. That is the entire interaction.
A full plan in minutes instead of an evening — and when your class is screened in Advant, it plans from what those students actually can’t do yet, not from a grade-level guess.
Scan and log in about a second, without unlocking anything or hunting a roster. Fast enough that you actually keep doing it in March.
Enter your roster once. Generate the seating chart, the field trip groups, the allergy list, the party list, the reading groups — without retyping 24 names again.
Newsletters and messages home, drafted in your voice from what actually happened this week instead of from a blank page on a Sunday night.
There is no shortage of teacher tools. There is a shortage of teacher tools designed by someone who was in the room, holding the clock.
The part no other planner can do. Every AI lesson planner starts from a grade level and a topic. Sidekick can start from your screening results — so the plan accounts for the six students who can’t yet blend, rather than assuming a class that doesn’t exist. That connection is the whole point of building both.
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