Smart School Pro platform

Вопрос практики - How do we make a kindergarten different for every child?
Russia
Implementation country
Implementation period: 1 month
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от 1 мес.
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Practice description

Tasks:

The Smart School Pro platform is meant to solve the following issues:

  • cutting down on routine work, saving the pre-school facility staff time and resources;

  • setting up effective communications inside the pre-school facility and with the children’s families;

  • further professional training of the pre-school facility personnel, satisfying the demand for competent staff;

  • optimizing business processes.

Smart School Pro is a platform constituting an integrated solution for pre-school facilities, making them able to chart a custom development trajectory for each child.

The project’s target audience includes kindergartens, schools, as well as regional and municipal education management bodies.   

The platform users are kindergarten managers (principals), teachers, staff (psychologists, instructors, speech therapists) and the children’s parents (legal guardians). Various user categories on the platform have varying access rights:

— A manager (principal) can view all the pre-school facility’s modules and groups (current and archived data, analytics, communications, etc.); 

— A methodologist, in addition to the manager functionality, can set up teachers’ monitoring parameters and make group schedules;

— A teacher can view, add, edit data for their group, but not for other groups;

— A parent can see all the information pertaining to their child, and in some cases add new data like medical certificates, documents, manage representatives authorized to pick the child up from kindergarten, etc.;

— The facility administrator has the broadest set of rights, including the right to set up access for other users.


The platform collects in a single window all the group and child data, including:

  • Documents, contracts;

  • Personal schedules and daily reports;

  • Health information, limitations on diet and physical exercise;

  • Information on authorized persons who can pick the child up upon providing their ID;

  • Information on teachers working with child/group;

  • Diagnostics and monitoring results (pictures and video reports).

The platform can combine any groups or lists based on the input data, thanks to the filter function. The platform functions can be used in primary school.


Unique features

The platform has a unique function, i.e. psychological and physical development diagnostics for every child. The diagnostics are provided for 6 age groups (2 to 7 years) along 15 development vectors. More information about the diagnostics structure is available in Smart School Pro presentation.

After finishing diagnostics, the system draws up the conclusion and the development chart, and gives a chance to compare individual results against the age norm, similar to medical tests.  

Smart School Pro diagnostics gives a pre-school facility a real opportunity to chart a personal development trajectory for each child. Compare that to manual diagnostics that can only be done by qualified professionals that can’t always be found in each pre-school facility. The diagnostics earned praises from the professional community, and is in high demand among both teachers and parents.


Additionally, the platform helps us automate the teachers’ monitoring process, manage it, collect and analyze data for various periods, compare the performance of different methods and programs. A teacher fills in a group check-list, and the system generates a group conclusion and individual conclusions automatically, highlighting the children in need of extra attention in various activity types.   


The data received through diagnostics and monitoring can help chart children’s personal development trajectories, figure out their capabilities (resources), deficits and individual traits.


From the technical point of view, the platform is a cloud service with a modular structure (each facility can choose the modules they need). The platform uses integrated data entry; its technical functions allow management of other users’ personal settings. It’s easy to use, has an intuitive interface and convenient navigation system.

Practice result

Quantitative results of using the Smart School Pro platform

  • The actual time for the teacher to fill in the daily report (how the child ate, slept, what his mood was, etc.) reducedto 3-10 minutes (depending on the size of the group). The educator saves time on transmitting important information for parents and is less distracted by conversations with parents and chats. The information is not lost when the caregiver changes and accumulates in the child’s profile.

  • Diagnostics Smart School Pro saves the educator’s time (on average 2-3 hours per child) due to the lack of need to write a conclusion. According to surveys of users of the platform , the number of errors in information processing has decreased by approximately 25%.

  • Automation of pedagogical monitoring saves up to 4 hours of teachers' working time when creating a group conclusion and up to 1 hour when writing an individual conclusion for a child. In total, when monitoring a group of 25 children, at least 20 hours of working time are saved for processing information.  

  • As of December 1, 2020 more than 800 employees of private and public pre-school have been trained to work with the Smart School Pro platform: 480 employees took part in the testing and confirmed their level of proficiency with the capabilities of the Smart School Pro platform, 330 of them received a general profile certificate and 150 — certificate in the Diagnostics category.

Qualitative results of using the Smart School Pro platform

  • Regular use of Smart School Pro diagnostics (tests and observation protocols, detailed age profiles of preschoolers, links to recommended reference and in-depth methods) allows teachers to update their knowledge of preschool pedagogy and age psychology, increases their level of qualification.

  • The Smart School Pro tool allows eliminating the problem of a shortage of qualified personnel among the teaching staff of preschool educational institutions. For example, if there is no psychologist and/or speech therapist in a kindergarten, the educator can diagnose the child’s development using the platform.

  • Smart School Pro diagnostics allows identifying problems of children’s development in a timely manner (for example, early correction of problems of speech, cognitive, physical and socio-communicative development of children requires less effort and gives the best results). Thus, diagnostics of children’s development allows parents to timely identify strengths and weaknesses in the development of preschoolers and take this information into account when determining the prospects for professional and personal development of the child. Also, diagnostics allows bringing the positions of the preschool and parents closer.

Implementation cost: Up to 500 thousand ₽

Implementation stages

1 month

Подготовительный этап

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The project is implemented in two stages:

  • trial: organizational issues are resolved, staff training is conducted, modules to be used are selected, a PEE administrator is appointed, technical support is provided (the trial period is up to 1 month);

  • operational: the platform is used to conduct processes in the PSEI, technical support is provided (indefinitely, in accordance with the license agreement).