Capture the evidence.
Boom reads the work students already do: exit tickets, quick checks, quiz items and short observation notes. It records exactly what each student wrote or said, and the conditions they had, like extra time or a read-aloud.
Evidence review · for teachers and support teams
Boom turns everyday classwork, like exit tickets, quick checks and what you notice at the table, into clear next steps for tomorrow’s lesson. Boom suggests. The teacher decides. Students get help while it still matters.
Fictional students and school. No sign-in, no setup.
What the student wrote
“1/3 + 1/4 = 2/7 because 1+1=2 and 3+4=7”Adds numerators and denominators as separate whole numbers.
Evidence: the answer is 2/7, and the student’s own explanation describes the add-across procedure.
Try it · fictional student, nothing sent
This is the whole loop, live. Boom reads the work and offers a guess with its reasons. You agree or disagree, pick a next step, and only then does anyone else see anything. Click through it.
What she wrote
“1/3 + 1/4 = 2/7 because 1+1=2 and 3+4=7”Adds numerators and denominators as separate whole numbers.
Evidence: the answer is 2/7, and her own explanation describes the add-across procedure.
Is Boom’s read right?
What happens next?
Audit trail
The problem
Students don’t fall behind all at once. It happens a little at a time: a fractions idea that never clicked, a word problem they couldn’t read, a reason they couldn’t explain.
Teachers catch these moments constantly, on exit tickets, in student journals and during small groups. But with 25 or more students and a stack of papers each night, there’s no time to sort through it all. By the time a benchmark test flags a student, they may have been stuck for weeks.
How it works
Click any step to watch that part of the loop happen.
Boom reads the work students already do: exit tickets, quick checks, quiz items and short observation notes. It records exactly what each student wrote or said, and the conditions they had, like extra time or a read-aloud.
For each response, Boom offers possible interpretations. Is this a common misconception, a careless slip, or a reading barrier hiding a math skill? Each one points to the exact part of the student’s work it’s based on.
Every interpretation shows its confidence level, the reasons it could be mistaken, other explanations, and the one question that would settle it. No mystery labels on children.
Boom suggests next steps, like a two-minute check-in, a small group with manipulatives, or a vocabulary support for the whole class. The teacher accepts, adapts, rejects or waits for more evidence. Nothing changes for a student until a teacher decides.
When a student keeps hitting the same barrier, that teacher-confirmed signal can reach your intervention or MTSS team. Teams start their conversations with what the teacher actually saw, not a single test score.
What makes it different
AI suggests, teachers decide. Boom keeps its suggestion and the teacher’s decision side by side, so leaders can see where Boom helps and where it misses, without evaluating teachers.
One exit ticket is one data point, and Boom says so. Every suggestion comes with what it doesn’t know.
Students are stored under anonymous IDs, never by name. Supports are described by what they do, like “read aloud,” never by disability or diagnosis.
Every record follows the Open Formative Assessment Evidence Schema (OFAES), a free, open format so evidence can move between tools. Your school’s data is never locked into Boom.
Who it’s for
Spend five minutes, not an evening, figuring out who needs what tomorrow, and keep the final say.
Decides every interpretationCatch the student who’s stuck in October, while a small fix can still work, and bring real classroom evidence to every meeting.
Teacher-confirmed signalsSee where students struggle across classrooms and grade levels, and how often teachers agree with the AI, before you scale anything.
Patterns and agreement rateOpen standard
OFAES is a free, openly licensed schema for classroom evidence. It covers what was observed, how it might be interpreted, how confident anyone is, what to do next, and what the teacher decided. Any tool can read and write it. Boom is one implementation.
We’re working with a small number of schools and districts to pilot Boom with real teachers. Start with one grade or one subject, keep your existing tools, and see what your teachers and support team learn in one term.
Questions
No. Boom helps teachers make sense of everyday practice work. It doesn’t assign grades or make placement decisions.
No. Every interpretation and suggestion stays a proposal until a teacher decides.
No. Benchmarks show where students are a few times a year. Boom helps with the daily decisions in between.
Boom is designed to work alongside the tools your teachers already use, so there’s no new platform to learn.
Records use anonymous IDs, store no disability or diagnostic labels, and your district controls what is shared with support teams.