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The only platform you need to uplift student literacy capability
Cleverbean is an Australian K-6 lesson planning solution that enables the teaching of complex literacy skills with unbeatable teacher confidence - so you can worry less about leveling out teacher capabilities and focus more on the metrics that show where students require more support.
Stories from our partner schools
Following on from intense professional development, we needed practical classroom support for teachers
Megan contacted us after her school had recently invested in a three-year school-wide professional development program to enhance Visible Learning and teacher capability across the school. Given teacher capability is one of her most important goals, she needed to find practical ways for her staff to to continue practising and deepening their capability in these effective classroom practices. Megan loves how Cleverbean supports their existing professional development efforts. Her teachers are showing they have more confidence and are feeling more empowered to improve their practice.
Megan
APCI Leader
Northern NSW
300 students
Public school
The students who refused to write, now proud of their writing
Penny, a teacher from Brisbane, was challenged with a group of students who literally would not write anything. She reached out to us in excitement and disbelief. After using one of our narrative units of work, these students began to interact, discuss, and write, fully engaged and proud of their creations. Penny credits the lesson's creativity for sparking their interest and the explicit instruction for helping her set them up for success and gradually transition them to independent work.
Penny
Primary School Teacher
Brisbane
600 students
Catholic school
Our Team
Our team of teachers, creatives and technologists have two goals; to improve the progress and joy of learning in students, and to empower teachers to do their best work in the classroom. Students and teachers will both be developing their intricate knowledge of skills as they move towards mastery.
Lucy and Alina founded Cleverbean in 2019 when Lucy was fed up with the quality of support teachers were given for the classroom practice. Get to know Lucy and Alina more below!
Lucy
is a primary school teacher of 15 years, teacher mentor, committee member of ALEA in ACT and a huge advocate for keeping education organisations accountable for quality, being transparent in how they use what research to support schools
From very early in her career when struggling to engage students in their learning, she went on a quest to find the key principles that led to increased engagement, positive classroom behaviours and learning outcomes for every style of student, with any learning disability.
Lucy developed a blue print of lesson mastery for learning mastery, practicing this within her own classrooms, her peers classrooms and her graduates classrooms to refine her work which has become Cleverbean.
Alina
explores complex problems and designs experiences that delicately weave meaningful technology into real-life environments. After dedicating her career to doing this with some of Australia’s most recognised brands such as Qantas, Temple & Webster, and Sydney Opera House, she chose to redirect her skills to her area of passion, in education.
She found that teachers were limited by the tools on offer, many providing conflicting experiences that left them feeling redundant from the learning experience. Others while helpful, still required a lot of adaptation to meet basic needs.
She wants to create a paradigm shift in education, where we hero and empower the teacher as the most important asset in the classroom.
or email Lucy on lucy@cleverbean.co
What’s coming soon on Cleverbean - AI driven invisible assessment
Partner schools will soon have access to trial AI driven tools that improve student writing exponentially. This will give students real-time feedback on their writing, while translating their practice work into invisible assessment for teachers and schools.
This market leading transformation is carefully tuned to ensure high real-life classroom participation and extremely high visibility of insights for schools on where writing gaps are and how to address them.
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Frequenly Asked Questions
- Facilitating annual literacy programming for grades K-6.
- Bridging gaps in their curriculum where specific areas require additional student or teacher support.
- Enhancing phonics programs by providing memorable practice activities.
- Supporting writing initiatives or, in cases where there's no comprehensive writing program, breaking down writing into manageable components to boost student confidence.
- Assisting teachers in professional development related to writing, a complex skill to teach and provide effective feedback on.