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Want to connect with what drives your learners?

SMATA helps you use small data to put relationships at the heart of learning.

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Observe more

Attune to what moves learners. Keep note of it. Have your actions informed by its insights.

Grow engagement

Write learning stories and help learners see themselves as capable learners.

Reflect more

Sit with learners and reflect together over meaningful evidence.

Understand the learner

Take a strengths-based approach. See the potential in all learners.

Build meaningful relationships

Celebrate with learners. Share meaningful stories of growth that motivate.

Uncover what matters

Interpret, unpack and respond to learning. Help learners see their power.

"It challenges and encourages you to be reflective - it's easy to miss crucial moments of play but with Smata you can record the data to affect change in your students"
Michelle McCracken, Year 5/6 teacher
“Smata is one of the best reporting tools I’ve seen for sharing NE/Y1 student individual goals with whānau in a Play-Based Learning environment”
Kathy Turnbull, NE/Year 1 teacher
"This small tool has had the biggest impact in my class this year hands down."
Craig Render, Year 7/8 teacher

WANT TO KNOW MORE?

Connect over evidence of engagement

Notice

Tune in to learners

Pay attention and notice what drives learners. Capture photos, video and audio as evidence.

Interpret

Get meaningful data

Harness your teacher superpower: use a strengths-based approach to link the evidence to the curriculum.

Reflect

See the small clues

Drill into the data to see what matters, and the opportunities for learning enrichment as a result.

Connect

Grow learning relationships

Reflect in partnership with colleagues and learners. Easily create and share learning stories.

Plan for responsive teacher action.

Supports a growth focused, learner centred pedagogy

Review observation data to inform responsive teacher actions

View either whole class or individual student graphs

Curriculum linked learning is recorded for the class and each student.

Generated spotlight questions highlight interesting learning trends

The SMATA Effect

On Teachers

Teachers who use SMATA become more

✔ Observant

✔ Reflective

✔ Responsive

On Learners

Learners whose teachers use SMATA feel

✔ Trusted

✔ Included

✔ Motivated

How it works

1. Add students

2. Capture an observation

3. Observation is graphed

4. Review student data