How do you make formative assessments feel less like surveillance and more like scaffolding?
Too often, feedback comes too late to make a difference: graded papers days later, or dashboards that feel more like surveillance than support. EdLight sees a different path; what if the feedback lived in the work itself, shaping instruction in real time?
Their platform captures handwritten math problems, not just multiple-choice clicks, and turns them into actionable insights for teachers.
We’re teaming up to help pressure-test feedback loops that actually work for students.
Organization spotlight: EdLight
EdLight is rethinking what assessment looks like in math classrooms, making student thinking visible in real time.
At the core is EdLight’s AI math co-teacher, built on more than 300,000 student work samples—including hard-to-read handwriting that other tools often miss. By analyzing work as it happens, the AI helps identify misconceptions, group students by mastery level, and recommend next steps for instruction.
For students, this means feedback that meets them at their level, whether they’re catching up, building confidence, or moving ahead. For teachers, it means clarity and support without the burden of late-night grading, plus the ability to align instruction with IEP goals and other priorities. And for schools, it means every learner, regardless of background or ability, gets the support they need.
Behind this work is a simple belief: when student work is honored and acted on, classrooms become places where every problem carries the potential to move learning forward.
How we're partnering to make feedback work for students
Ahead of their back-to-school push, EdLight will be piloting new workflows in math classrooms—and we’ll be activating a youth feedback sprint to sharpen their approach. In Tandem Youth Partners will co-design and facilitate a two-week research run to explore:
- How students feel about their work being captured and analyzed in real time.
- What builds trust—and what breaks it—when student thinking is made visible.
- Whether EdLight’s framing resonates with how students actually learn and improve.
EdLight’s bet is simple but bold: make student thinking visible, and better teaching will follow. What matters now is whether that vision feels true to students themselves, a test In Tandem Youth Partners are helping run in real time.
Why In Tandem?
For a platform built on student work, the question isn’t just what is captured, but how it feels to the students themselves. That’s where In Tandem adds value.
Our role is to create space for students to share how feedback feels in practice—whether it motivates, confuses, or builds trust. By surfacing these perspectives now, not later, EdLight is shaping a tool that supports learning relationships instead of straining them.
This partnership positions young people not only as learners, but as co-architects of what meaningful feedback looks like in the classroom.
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