Education Impact founder Ken Wallace.
The mathematician started his school feedback platform in 2012 and over the past seven years has signed up close to 500 schools across Australia and the world, pushing towards the $2 million revenue mark.Schools pay around $8,000 a year for access to the platform, which lets students give teachers constructive feedback.
"It's expanding beyond the intellectual capital of the school, into the social capital of the school: student wellbeing and teacher wellbeing," Wallace says.. Startups like Educator Impact say there also needs to be a conversation around student experience in the classroom and welfare of schools beyond their academic results.
Businesses at the earlier stage of their growth journey believe the use of tech for tracking student welfare is only set to grow across the country.
MsEmmaK Haha “tech start-up.” The same people that brought your surveillance capitalism are now getting into schools. That will end well.