Case studies

Martina Donnellan

Principal, Fingal Community College, Dublin

“This tool compliments all elements of having study skills, setting targets, having ambition, getting the students to believe in themselves and for us to instil that confidence in them. The tracking of Athena helps us to streamline all of that.”

Rachel O Connor

Principal of Ramsgrange Community College, Wexford

Rachel O Connor, Principal of Ramsgrange Community College, says that since they have started to ‘genuinely and meaningfully track results using the Athena Tracker, attainment has absolutely improved across the board’. She also speaks on how the software is ‘incredibly easy to use’, and the importance of that given how valuable a teacher’s time is. She describes the customer support as ‘excellent’.

Niall McVeigh

Principal of Castleblayney College in Co. Monaghan

Niall McVeigh, Principal of Castleblayney College talks about how he thinks the Athena Tracker has replaced the old teacher journal, and at management level, replaced a “cumbersome approach”, by both saving time and being user friendly.

He also says that the Athena Customer Service Team guided them through the set-up making it “very accessible to school leaders”. Niall also made the point that having the Athena tracker in the school speeds up the process during Parent Teacher Meetings, tightening up conversations.

Dr. Orla Walsh

Deputy Principal of Mount Sackville Secondary School, Dublin

Dr. Orla Walsh, Deputy Principal of Mount Sackville Secondary School, says the Athena Tracker has allowed them to very clearly track progress of students and is key to them assisting “each student to reach her full God given potential.” She also brings up making the changeover from their own labour-intensive and time-consuming tracking system, to the Athena Tracker giving them patterns ‘right there and then’ after their uploads.

John Cronin

Principal of Castleknock Community College, Dublin

John Cronin, Principal of Castleknock Community College, says that as a company Athena Analytics “gets education”. He says that the Athena Tracker empowers teachers, and it supports the culture of teachers discussing potential with the students themselves. He describes their decision to use the Athena Tracker software to bring their academic tracking to the next level.

Pat Fleming

Deputy Principal of Mercy Secondary School Mounthawk, Kerry

Pat Fleming, Deputy Principal of Mercy Secondary School Mounthawk, talks about how he described the school’s academic tracking needs to us a number of years ago and how the software was built and has evolved pragmatically as a result of their feedback. Pat references how the software helps with the issue of focus sometimes falling on the higher and lower-achieving students, and how students in the middle band not achieving their potential ‘don’t pop out’.

Cormac Flynn

Principal of Inver College, Monaghan

Cormac Flynn, Principal of Inver College, encourages schools that are using the software to embrace it full and put it at the center of the assessment policy, not at the fringes. He brings up the benefit of using ‘tangible and empirical based evidence’ to help set students targets, and how presenting the Athena Tracker data to parents has been a ‘game changer’.