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Curriculum-embedded feedback for students, misconception-level insights for educators.
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Why School Systems Choose Glimmer
Boost math achievement
Glo, our AI math coach, identifies misconceptions from students' written work and fills in pre-requisite gaps with socratic questioning strategies aligned to your curriculum. Glo never gives away the answer, and never has a student blindly follow a procedure--instead, Glo builds students conceptual understanding and makes sure the cognition always stays on them.
Thanks for laying out your steps! I want to focus on your very first step. Can you walk me through how 7x - 5 became 7x?
Understand students' thinking, not just their answers
Glimmer makes the formative assessment cycle easy for teachers by probing student thinking and analyzing student work. Teachers get insights on how to respond to a student's underlying misconception, not just what they got right or wrong, with strategies for whole-class instruction, optimized groupings, and 1-1 student check-ins.
Implement your curriculum to fidelity, with coherent practice
Glimmer works with any curriculum to serve students questions directly from materials and generate additional aligned practice. Glimmer adds scaffolds for students who need them, and personalizes word problems to make math relevant and meaningful. Build practice aligned to your HQIM, that covers DOK 2 and 3 level skills.
Get a clear picture of how to target standards
Glimmer provides the most granular reporting on student progress across a building or district, showing not only where learning gaps are, but what solutions are working. Track student progress towards standards and target preparation for benchmark tests.
Where is Glimmer used?
Tier 1 Independent Practice
15 minutes twice a week at the end of class, to give students a chance to practice the day's content with individual support.
Tier 3 Intervention
During intervention periods, so Glo can support students on the individual standards they're struggling with.
Exit Tickets
A few exit ticket questions each day, so that teachers can easily understand student misconceptions.
State Test Prep
Throughout the school year to fill in gaps where students are weakest.
Testimonials from educators who love Glimmer
"Glimmer is the only screen time I'm using in classes this year because it elicits so much joy from my students"
"Seeing the common misconceptions in real time while I'm in the classroom is so helpful. I can actually change what I'm doing in the moment."
"Glimmer takes a huge stress off of my plate. It saves me a ton of time looking through data to personalize lessons, which allows me to then put more time into serving kids"
"Glimmer is much more helpful than traditional edtech platforms. It gives my teachers a daily action they can take, whereas with [other tools] it's hard to take data only a few times a year and use it effectively."
Our Story
Neel Rao
Co-Founder
Neel is a former high school math teacher and PM at IXL. He graduated from Stanford with a BS in Computer Science and an MS in Symbolic Systems, researching how AI can be used to better measure student learning. He started Glimmer to make it easier to be the kind of teacher he always wanted to be— able to reach every student in a classroom, regardless of where they're at.
Favorite part about teaching:
The handmade artwork I received from my students. Some of them are still framed in my living room!
Glory Kanes
Co-Founder
Glory is a former Microsoft software engineer and second-time edtech founder. She graduated from USC with a BS in Computer Science and a BS in Business, where she also taught Computer Science to elementary and middle schoolers in LA. She started Glimmer because a teacher's personalized help turned her from a failing math student into Math Team president. Now, she hopes every student can have that same opportunity.
Favorite part about teaching:
The big smiles when students realize they just built their own game from scratch – with code!
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