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ARE YOU STRUGGLING TO SHOW PUPIL PROGRESS?
B Squared products are all about showing the small steps of progress pupils with SEND make. They are designed to save time, reduce teacher workload, improve pupil outcomes, and support more meaningful communication with parents.
Our Connecting Steps assessment software makes teachers’ lives easier and saves them time, by helping them identify next steps and helping them show the progress the pupil has made in a variety of ways. The information Connecting Steps creates also supports more meaningful communication with parents.
Connecting Steps
Connecting Steps, our assessment software delivers all the information in a user-friendly format that schools need to improve pupil outcomes, free up teaching time and simplify reporting for senior leaders. It makes teachers’ lives easier by helping them to identify next steps and showing even the smallest steps of progress pupils have made in a variety of ways. Multiple inclusive assessment frameworks allow schools to track the progress of pupils with SEND all the way to age 25, as well as those working at Age Related Expectations across Early Years and Primary. The information Connecting Steps creates also supports more meaningful communication with parents.
Evisense
Evisense is a secure Communication Hub for connecting schools, parents, pupils andexternal professionals. A great way to increase parental engagement, Evisense bringstogether all your school communication into a single system. You can use it for letters, newsletters, reading diaries and so much more. It also enables teachers to easily and securely record and share evidence of learning. Photos and videos are a powerful way to showcase a pupil’s achievements and demonstrate small steps of progress. You can use Evisense with your school’s chosen mobile devices for evidence capture ‘on the go’, then share with parents to boost their engagement.
Capture and share the progress your pupils make
Using Evisense as an evidence of learning system
Simplify communication with parents
Using Evisense as a parental communication tool
Book an online meeting to find out how B Squared can help your school show small steps of progress.
Having worked with thousands of schools, the B Squared Team understand the challenges professionals working in SEND face. We created The SENDcast to support teachers, other professionals and parents. Keep up to date with best practice, policy changes and improve your knowledge around SEND with our free weekly podcast and CPD online training sessions.
What Do Schools Say?
Teachers’ workloads have decreased over time and more staff can play their part in assessing pupils
“Connecting Steps has decreased our teachers’ workloads over time and allows more staff within the school to play their own part in assessing pupils. Teachers are now more confident in being able to go into a pupil’s assessment area, look at the progress that they have made, and find areas that will meet outcomes linked to the curriculum that they are working on.”
Demonstrates all student progress, however small and helps improve learning outcomes
“We see B Squared’s Connecting Steps as a valuable part of our comprehensive assessment programme. We can now demonstrate all student progress, however small. It has also helped us to be secure in our judgements and improve learning outcomes as a result.”
Engages parents in what’s going on at school
“Using Evisense, photos and videos of the children’s progress can be easily and securely shared with parents. This really helps to engage parents in what’s going on at school and supporting their child’s learning at home.”
We can see the sustained progress our pupils are making from Early Years to Preparing for Adulthood
“Working with B Squared, we have found an assessment system that we can intrinsically link into our ambitious curriculum – from Early Years through to Preparation for Adulthood. This means we can now see the sustained progress our pupils are making.”
Enables us to personalise learning to individual needs
“Connecting Steps helps our teachers to accurately track children’s data and use it to inform their future planning. This has enabled us to personalise learning to individual needs, address barriers to learning and provide specific help where it’s needed.”
Stores evidence securely
“Evisense enables us to store evidence securely, share good practice, improve our whole school approach to assessment and track evidence against assessment outcomes.”
The SENsible SENCO’s Review
Check out Abigail’s reviews of B Squared.
B Squared Blogs & Videos
Check out our B Squared related blogs and videos.
Diving into Data: Tracking SEND Progress Effectively
Dale Pickles unpacks how to measure progress for SEND students, emphasising tailored assessments, engagement, and celebrating non-linear achievements.
Evisense Webinar: Boost Parent-School Interaction
Explore the functionalities of Evisense, an intuitive platform designed to increase parental engagement in education. Learn about its secure data handling and diverse communication features that make school-home interaction seamless and safe.
Balancing the Scale: Expert Strategies for Managing SENCO Workload
This enlightening webinar addresses the escalating workload faced by SENCOs in today’s challenging educational landscape. Our panel of experts shares invaluable insights and tips on reducing workload stress, enhancing coordination within the work space, and whether a high workload is indicative of a successful SENCO.
Revolutionising SEN Assessment: Streamline Your Process with B Squared
Unlock the potential of B Squared in making SEN assessment more inclusive and efficient. Dale Pickles shares insights on consolidating data and leveraging AI for comprehensive reporting, a must-attend session for SENCOs seeking to enhance their assessment strategies.
The Value of a SENCO’s Time and the Importance of Delegation in Supporting Children with SEND
This blog post highlights the value of a SENCO’s time in supporting children with SEND and emphasises the importance of delegation. Discover how schools can alleviate the workload of SENCOs while ensuring effective support for children with special educational needs through collaboration and resource allocation.
Monthly Newsletter June 23
We’ve taken a break from our normal monthly newsletter, we’ve let Dale and the team at B Squared loose and it seems they have had some fun. They included information on Autism, how doing stuff yourself is not always the best use of your time and how to gain the best outcomes for children with SEND. It’s a great read! Also a big well done to Rebecca Banks who is our monthly winner of the SENbooks £100.
Measuring Small Step Progress – B Squared
Dive into B Squared’s innovative approach to SEN assessment with Dale Pickles. Discover how Small Step Progress and Connecting Steps transform the tracking of pupil achievements, empowering educators and students alike.
B Squared for Measuring Progress- Abigail Hawkins reviews
B Squared is product that amongst other things measures small step progress. Abigail was given an account to test or break, and here she discusses the findings.
Discussing Progress for pupils with SEN with ChatGPT
In this blog article, ChatGPT delves into the progress of pupils with Special Educational Needs (SEN). Join the discussion and gain insight into strategies, support systems, and approaches that can be implemented to help students achieve their full potential.
Analysing Data for Pupils with SEND
Data should be useful, powerful, and used to improve outcomes for pupils. There are graphs and spreadsheets everywhere, but is it making a difference? Lots of people are not confident with data.
More from B Squared
Having worked with thousands of schools, the B Squared Team understand the challenges professionals working in SEND face. We created The SENDcast to support teachers, other professionals and parents.
A new episode of our award-winning podcast is released every Thursday. Each week we have a different guest, joining our host Dale Pickles to discuss an area they feel passionate about and want to share. The podcast has over 250,000 downloads and more than 160 insightful episodes covering all the latest topics in SEND.
A smarter way for schools to train staff around SEND. SENDcast Sessions provide in-depth content that schools can access forever, building a library of CPD that all staff can benefit from now and in the future. Over 100 high quality, 1-hour expert online training sessions across a wide range of SEND topics are available from our shop.