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…
Category: Essays
Argument from the classroom week: Shule ni Mwalimu, Plan–Teach–Assess, and what has to survive a Monday morning.
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…
