For colleges and schools
Better teaching, made visible.
Move every teacher forward with one live, connected view of performance, built on notes that automap to standards. Best practice, recognised. Priorities, focused.
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Join thousands of educators
A track record teachers trust.
Raise is the third education app from our team of specialists.
AI planning and resources
Marking made manageable
Teacher growth, made visible
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Principles
Evidence-based. Student-centred.
Every judgement traces back to an observer, mentor or auditor note.
Every category exists because it improves learner progress.
Capture
Record evidence easily.
Jot evidence notes in plain English — whether you're in a lesson observation, a mentor meeting, or a desk audit. Raise reads it and maps it to the Teachers' Standards categories it touches, so you can confirm and move on. Just like that, the teacher's performance picture gets richer.
Audit trail
Comprehensive records. Live, and ready for anyone.
Every judgement rests on individual observation notes — who saw what, and when. Inspectors, governors and the teacher themselves all read the same trail.
Strong recap of prior learning before introducing new vocabulary. Pace held through the task.
Targeted questioning surfaced two misconceptions and resolved them without breaking flow.
Adapted task on the fly for two learners working below the level. Both reengaged within five minutes.
Scope
See the big picture instantly.
The same radar chart at every scope. A curriculum lead sees their department. A director sees their directorate. A senior leader sees the whole college — same shape, broader view, making cohesive self assessment easy.
Beacon teachers
Recognise your experts.
In every category, Raise surfaces the staff doing brilliant work — from the weight of their evidence. Then anyone in the college can learn from them.
- Adaptive TeachingBeacon
- Classroom DialogueBeacon
- Assessment & FeedbackBeacon
Before and after
What changes when you start using Raise
Scattered across various documents that need finding and extracting.
One connected view, live at every level.
Long-winded forms, one for each kind of observation.
One plain-English note, mapped to standards automatically.
Accountability-led. Two high-stakes observations a year. Inconsistent next steps.
Teacher-owned. Continuous evidence. A clear next step everyone agrees on.
A scramble to pull together evidence the week before inspectors arrive.
A live picture, ready any day, built from thousands of evidence points.
Best practice stays locked in individual classrooms.
Beacon teachers surfaced and shareable across every team.
Teachers can feel stressed by mixed messages and the prospect of unexpected judgements.
Teachers feel recognised, supported, in charge of and incentivised by their own growth.
Who built this
Hi, I’m Jamie.
I’ve worked in the education sector for more than twenty years — first as a teacher, then as a curriculum lead. I hold a Master’s in Education and have trained other teachers across the sector.
I also run Jigsaw, where we build software for teachers. First we built Schemely, an AI planning platform now used by over 40,000 teachers in 100+ countries. And now, Raise. I’m optimistic about how AI is changing learning, the world, and learners’ futures.
Teaching’s great, but hard. We’re rightly expected to assess and develop our students’ performance against clear, focused criteria. So it’s a bit ironic that our own effectiveness as teachers is often less clear. Development of teaching should follow evidence-based standards consistently. And when determining next steps for a teacher’s development, everyone should be on the same page. Is that the reality in your setting? Or do you get one or two high stakes observations a year, with little shared thread between them?
Managing and developing teacher performance is hard too. Trying to gain meaningful insights from hundreds of separate documents is… yeah. Imagine if you could see the quality of teaching, learning and assessment across your whole organisation — live, visible at all levels, built from thousands of pieces of evidence captured instantly.
This is why we built Raise.
We believe this platform empowers teachers and managers, supports staff wellbeing, and ultimately shapes better experiences and progress for students.
How can we make Raise better? Feel free to reach out and let us know.
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