Since 2019, HoloTracker has been piloting with a Singaporean public school. Over a 15-month period (last updated late 2020), approx. 13,500 observations were recorded by teachers, with teachers using the reports during parent-teacher meetings. A research survey administered by Prof. Damian Bebell at the Boston College Lynch School of Education, indicated that teachers found the tool most useful for the following*: Communication with parents (33%), Student Learning (22%) and Communication with other teachers (22%).

This insight was also echoed in our observations of teachers’ adoption of the tool (based on internal analytics). During the first months of trial, uptake of the tool was relatively slow, with only ~30 observational data points made by one teacher. However, the first parent-teacher conference proved pivotal: the teacher who had recorded these observations was able to use these insights to communicate more effectively with parents, inspiring other teachers to do the same. Then, we saw a radical uptake in number of observations, with teachers generating over 6,300 observational data points in the second half of the year, an average of 14 per student.

This prompted the school administration to broaden the programme to include more levels in the primary school. This expansion led us to a second milestone, where reports of observational data were printed and officially included in the school’s report card system as a “Values Behavior Profile”.

*The prompt “Using HoloTracker in my class changed my..” also included other indicators such as Communication with administration and leadership in my school, Student behavior, Student empathy, Student engagement, Student resilience, Student-to-student communication and collaboration, and Classroom culture.