We believe that the best way for schools to understand the benefits of our academic tracking software, the Athena Tracker, is to hear from other schools. So we asked a number of the schools currently using the software to describe why they signed up for it, how they use it, what benefit the school has had from it and how they have found working with us.
Hear from some of our customers below:
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.
Rachel O’ Connor
Principal of Ramsgrange Community College, Wexford
“Since we’ve started to genuinely and meaningfully track results using the Athena Tracker, attainment has absolutely improved across the board.”
Rachel also speaks on how the software is ‘incredibly easy to use’, which is incredibly important given how busy teachers are and how valuable their time is.
John Cronin
Principal of Castleknock Community College, Dublin
John believes, 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 talks about how the early stages of the Athena Tracker and 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’. He also talks about how the Athena Tracker allows Year Heads focus their attention on the students that most require their support, reducing the necessity of teacher-student one-on-one mediations.
Cormac Flynn
Principal of Inver College, Monaghan
Cormac encourages schools that are using the software to embrace it fully and put it at the centre 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 ‘gamechanger’.
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