Useful ideas for the work of education
Explore guides, insights, reports, essays and practical resources for education.
Browse teaching, competency-based education, assessment, education data, AI, school leadership and implementation resources. Follow the links to relevant products, guides and evidence.
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Use guides for school setup and practical routines, insights for education practice and reports for evidence discussions. Topic pages bring together AI, education data and implementation guidance. Start with the question you need to answer, then follow the links to the relevant product or school workflow for more context.
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Insights
Read field notes and analysis on teaching, assessment, AI and education implementation.
ExploreGuides
The guides on this page are the published CBC pieces: schemes of work, lesson plans, syllabus coverage and classroom records. The journal cards below are published essays. A programme pack that is not listed does not exist yet.
ExploreReports
Two studies and a film, each with its own date. A finding on one ledger is not a finding on the others.
ExploreGlossary
A guide to curriculum terms, Kurasa products and the language used in lesson planning and assessment.
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AI in schools
There is no essay on this topic yet. Published notes are on Resources.
ExploreEducation data
There is no essay on this topic yet. Data and methods is the page that keeps the measurements apart.
ExploreImplementation playbooks
The rollout a school actually follows: a named lead, a roster, one routine, a week, then families.
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Essays
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Essay
The thermometer of education: take the reading while it can still change
A first-person note from 2012 at Kenyatta University Primary School, published January 2024. Formative assessment as a thermometer — not the exam…
Essay
Shule ni Mwalimu: the classroom has to hold the record
The school is the teacher. If the person in the room cannot use it before first period, it is not Kurasa.
Essay
What formative assessment looks like in twelve minutes
A register-to-competency routine that does not swallow the lesson: strands, a small group, and evidence while the class is still in the…
Essay
From assessment data to a Friday staff meeting
How a school uses a PSL insight report to decide what to reteach next week — without reconstructing the term from paper.
Strategy
Why we built PSL Daily Challenge (and why it changes edtech economics)
School sales are slow and expensive. We asked what happens if families buy practice directly. Daily Challenge is the answer.
Strategy
From Kurasa 1.0 to Workspace 2.0: what changed (and why)
We rebuilt the platform in 2023. Not because the first version was wrong — because we learned what teachers actually needed. Here…
Papers
Dated, with a method note
Paper
The weekday record, 2026
A dated addendum to the 2023 impact report: 6,000+ teachers, 150k learners, 10M+ formative assessments — and a method note for what…
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How PSL reaches public schools: KEPSHA as the pipe, not the campaign
The Vihiga mechanism: zonal and sub-county chairs authorise schools; teachers then work in Workspace and PSL. Names wait for written permission.
