Today our guest is Steve Smith, CEO and co-founder of IntelliSpark. Steve shares how IntelliSpark helps educators get to know students as people — not just learners — by making it easier to capture, share, and act on student information across an entire school team in real time.

He also explains how the platform addresses two persistent gaps in schools: the friction of sharing critical student information between educators, and the lack of just-in-time support for teachers who encounter a student need but aren't sure what to do next.

In this conversation, Steve offers important reminders for educators and leaders:

• When educators know something personal about a student, even a brief conversation about it can shift the entire relationship and improve academic outcomes.
• Critical information about a student — a loss, a struggle, a win — too often stays with one adult instead of reaching the whole team, and that gap has real consequences.
• Most professional development is episodic, but the moments that require it are daily. Educators need tools and strategies available to them in real time, not just at the start of the year.
• Every interaction with a student can be a pivotal one, even when neither the educator nor the student knows it at the time.

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