Our approach
Built for how children actually learn
Many students who struggle at school aren't struggling with the subject. They're struggling to get started, keep track, stay organized, or manage big feelings when work gets hard. WizdoBee builds help for those everyday skills into every task.
Designed by a collective
WizdoBee is built by a collective of educators, parents, students, clinical therapists, and neurodivergent experts. The people these decisions affect are the people making them. Every tool is tested with students, families, and teachers, and shaped by what works for them in real classrooms and homes.
Executive function, in plain words
Executive function is the set of skills we use to get things done. It has two sides:
- Getting things done: setting a goal, planning the steps, getting started, keeping track of time, holding information in mind, staying organized, and checking your work.
- Managing yourself: pausing before you act, handling frustration and big feelings, and adapting when plans change.
These skills develop at different rates in different children, and they're often hardest for students who learn differently. A student can understand fractions perfectly and still lose marks because they copied a number wrong, skipped a step, or ran out of time.
Why "careless" mistakes often aren't
When a capable student keeps making small mistakes, the problem is rarely effort. Attention might slip halfway through a problem, there might be too many steps to hold in mind, or they might rush to get started. WizdoBee helps teachers see these patterns in real work and suggests a support, never a label.
Support built in from the start
Instead of making a separate version for a few students, WizdoBee builds the options into the learning itself, the way a ramp works for everyone. We shape the setting around the student, not the student around the setting.
“When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.”
Take it in
Read-aloud with word highlighting, reading speed and word help, translation, and three levels of every task.
Plan it and show it
Small steps, planners and checklists, and answers by typing, speaking, drawing, photo, or recording.
Care about it
Rewards for effort and second tries, hints that never give the answer, and calm options for students who worry.
What it looks like in WizdoBee
The inclusion team switches these on in the Learner Passport. Each one then works in every subject and every task.
| When a student finds it hard to… | WizdoBee helps with… |
|---|---|
| Get started | The Bee Guide's "Where do I start?", tasks in small steps, and first-then prompts |
| Hold several steps in mind | A checklist of steps on screen, "Break it into steps" from the Bee Guide, and worked examples |
| Plan their writing | A paragraph planner that turns their plan into a paragraph they can edit |
| Check their work | A check before hand-in, and their own top three mistakes to look out for |
| Cope with maths worry | No visible timer, an easy question first, and a "Come back later" flag |
| Understand a word or question | A support bar with reading speed and word help, in Arabic too |
| Learn what works for them | "Which strategy helped?" after every task, shared with their teacher |
Coming next: a tonight planner, a pack-my-bag list, and project and study planners, shared with families.
A support, never a label
Every support in WizdoBee suggests what might help. None of them tells a student, a parent, or a teacher what a student "has". Teachers decide, and named people handle every concern. See what WizdoBee bases its suggestions on, and how we test it.
How we design
WizdoBee brings together what the collective knows from teaching, therapy, parenting, and lived experience of learning differently, alongside research on executive function and inclusive design.
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