Notebook 31 of 40
Every mark by hand, every night. The lesson plan waits until the pile is done.
PUPILTEACH · FOR YOUR STAFF ROOM
Your best teacher planned today’s lesson in the 7:40 bus queue.
Her evening went to forty notebooks. Give us one chapter and your timetable, and tonight PupilTeach drafts tomorrow’s brief, a plan and suggested marks. She edits, keeps or bins every word.
By 6 pm: tomorrow’s lesson, drafted from what didn’t land today.
Ms Rekha · Today (sample)
NORTH STAR
time returned this week · sample, seen only by her
periods today
notebooks scanned
plan to approve
THIS WEEK
7B Maths · brief readyOpen
Unit-test marks · 6 uncertainReview
Friday letter · draftApprove by 4 pm
Is this your starting point?
I’m and what hurts most is
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY
Teaching is the job. Paperwork is the day.
of government teachers’ time went to teaching, in a five-state NUEPA study
NUEPA (now NIEPA) study on teachers’ non-teaching work, released 2018 · deccanchronicle.com · NUEPA non-teaching study
of teachers across TALIS 2024 systems say administrative work causes them stress
OECD TALIS 2024 (India not surveyed) · ei-ie.org · TALIS 2024 summary
more teachers India’s schools need to meet pupil–teacher norms, 2021
UNESCO State of the Education Report for India 2021 · tatatrusts.org · No Teacher, No Class (PDF)
SOUND FAMILIAR?
Forty notebooks at 11 pm. Planning gets whatever is left.
Registers, report comments, parent WhatsApps and the notebook pile fill every evening. Planning shrinks to the gaps between. Tired teachers rarely complain. They just leave mid-year, and a class starts over with someone new.
Saturday’s report comments
Forty “good effort, can improve” lines, typed one by one before Monday.
The October resignation
One exit, three substitutes, and 7B starting chapter four for the second time.
HOW IT WORKS
Each evening’s paperwork, drafted. Every decision, still hers.
One app on any phone. It drafts; the teacher edits, keeps or discards. Nothing about her is scored.
1Today
One screen at 7 am: today’s periods, what’s due, and one thing to approve.
2Brief
Before each period: which idea didn’t land last time, and which children need what.
3Plan and mark
A 20-minute or full-period plan drafted; scanned notebooks get suggested marks the teacher confirms.
4Friday letter
The week’s class letter to families, drafted from what actually happened. She edits and sends.
PupilTeachWhatever didn’t land today is already waiting in tomorrow’s brief.
THREE WAYS TO START
Three ways to get the evening back.
Each one ends with a drafted lesson a teacher actually keeps. Start small, and go wider when your staff room says so.
For a principal or teacher who wants to feel it in one evening.
- 1Upload one chapter and the timetable
- 2Get tomorrow’s brief and lesson plan
- 3Scan ten notebooks, check the marks
- YOU’LL SEE IT
- By 6 pm
- WHAT IT TAKES
- Free, with no card and no sales call.
For schools that want one department running it properly, with a person alongside.
- 1A 30-minute call to choose the department
- 2We set it up within seven days
- 3Day 14: hours back, staff-room total
- YOU’LL SEE IT
- Day 2
- WHAT IT TAKES
- A short paid pilot, credited to year one
For owners who want every teacher set up, trained and supported.
- 1We load syllabus, timetables and rosters
- 2A coach trains teachers in the staff room
- 3A WhatsApp help desk, every week
- YOU’LL SEE IT
- Week one
- WHAT IT TAKES
- Set-up plus a per-teacher fee, quoted for you
WHAT YOU’LL SEE FIRST
Watch for 6 pm: a teacher opens tomorrow’s brief and finds the lesson already drafted from today’s class.
MAKE IT YOURS
A quiet coach in your best HoD’s methods.
ONLY AT YOUR SCHOOL
MentorBot, built from your senior HoD’s methods
Your most respected HoD shares her plans, worked examples and favourite fixes. MentorBot then coaches newer teachers in her methods — privately, when they ask, always labelled as AI. Only with her written consent; nothing a teacher asks is reported to anyone.
- Her written consent, revocable any day
- “In Mrs Hegde’s methods · AI” on replies
- Private to each teacher, never reported
MentorBot · in Mrs Hegde’s methods · AIreplies in your language · quiet after 8 pm
Friday
Reply, or hold 🎙 to speak
Your lesson-plan format
Plans drafted under your school’s own headings and template.
Your marking rubric
Suggested marks follow your rubric. The teacher has the last word.
Your Friday letter voice
Class letters in your school’s tone and your families’ languages.
WHY IT GETS BETTER EVERY TERM
Every lesson leaves the next one half-planned.
What didn’t land today shapes tomorrow’s brief. Plans teachers keep become your staff room’s own library, shared only when a teacher chooses. By the second term, planning starts from your school’s best, not a blank page.
It learns from your own classrooms, so each week’s drafts need fewer edits than the last.
- 1TeachWith a brief in hand
- 2MarkScan; the teacher decides
- 3Brief draftsFrom what didn’t land
- 4Plan draftsIn your school’s format
- 5Library growsShared by choice
- ↻ Your staff room’s plan library
WHERE IT LEADS
Once evenings come back, you notice where periods leak.
We suggest a next step only when your own staff-room numbers point to it — with the maths, and no pressure.
WHEN YOU NOTICE
Three in ten briefs say an idea didn’t land in class.
PupilLiveTHE MATHS · AN EXAMPLE
e.g. 15 sections × 4 re-teach periods avoided = 60 periods back a term
WHEN YOU NOTICE
Your teachers scan 500 or more scripts a month.
PupilAssessTHE MATHS · AN EXAMPLE
e.g. 3,000 papers × 4 minutes saved ÷ 60 = 200 hours back a term
WHEN YOU NOTICE
Six or more cover scrambles a week show up on Today.
PupilTeamsTHE MATHS · AN EXAMPLE
e.g. 6 cover scrambles × 20 minutes × 40 weeks ÷ 60 = 80 coordinator hours a year
BUILT BY A SCHOOL · BALLARI · SINCE 2001
We have a staff room too. Here’s what we sign.
PupilTeach comes from a school group in Ballari whose teachers have marked notebooks since 2001. Join as a founding school: founding terms, a direct line to the people building it, and a simple way out if your teachers don’t want it.
Founding-school pricing
Held for three years for schools that join now.
Never a teacher score
No rankings, no effectiveness index. It’s a clause in the contract.
Stop on day 14
If your teachers don’t want to keep it, stop and take your data.
Your staff room’s data
Nothing is shared or published without your written yes.
WHAT WE’LL TRACK WITH YOUHours back, staff-room totalBriefs opened before classPlans drafted and keptFriday letters sent
QUESTIONS
What your staff room will ask first.
Didn’t see yours? Ask on WhatsApp — a person replies, usually within the hour.
Ask on WhatsAppNo. Leaders see staff-room totals only. Each teacher’s hours, drafts and coach chats are hers alone — and that’s in the contract.
How much of tomorrow’s drafted lesson would your teachers keep?
Give us one chapter and tomorrow’s timetable. The draft will be ready by 6 pm — and your teacher’s edits will tell you.
No teacher scores, everDrafts only; teachers decideStop on day 14