School data · Abu Dhabi & online

In every school there is one row that changes the meeting.

I help K-12 teachers and leadership teams find it — and build the dashboard that keeps it in front of them, from the real files your school already keeps.

17+ yrs in K-12 11+ yrs running school data 100+ educators trained English & Arabic
17+ yrsIn K-12 classrooms
11+ yrsHead of data & ICT
100+Educators trained
<30 minWeekly reporting, after

The 7 p.m. problem

You're not afraid of Excel. You're buried by it.

The data your school needs already exists. It is just scattered across a dozen files that never agree with each other.

Evenings that disappear

Two to three hours most nights on manual reports — copied, pasted, re-checked, and still not fully trusted.

Meetings run on gut feel

Nodding along in the data meeting, then deciding on instinct, because nobody can read the numbers in time.

Problems found late

Attendance here, grades there, behaviour somewhere else. Struggling students surface after the window to help them has closed.

The change

From the night before the review — to walking in with the answer.

Before
  • Two to three hours most evenings on manual reports.
  • A stack of files that do not agree with each other.
  • Quiet dread before every academic review.
  • Parents receive marks, but no real picture of their child.
After
  • One dashboard that updates itself from the files your school already keeps.
  • Reporting finished in under thirty minutes.
  • A clear read on every class before the meeting, not after it.
  • The standing that comes with being the person who makes the numbers make sense.

The method

Built on your real files. Never on sample data.

Most Excel training hands you a clean practice workbook that looks nothing like a school. Every session here starts with the messy file you actually brought.

Understand first, then design

Before a single chart is drawn, we get clear on the question your school is really trying to answer.

Simplicity over complexity

If your team cannot run it without me, it is not finished. Everything is built to be maintained by ordinary educators.

Insight over information

Not more numbers — the right ones. One page that says what is working, what is not, and what to do next.

Two ways to work together

Start where your school is.

For schools & leadership teams

A 60-minute live working session on your own data, then dashboard systems and training your team can run without me.

  • One invoice, whole-team access
  • Built around your reporting cycle
  • Full handover — the school owns everything

The 8-week course

For individual teachers, coordinators and heads of department: eight live, build-along modules from first principles to a leadership-ready dashboard.

8 weeksLive build-alongTemplates included$497 · early bird $297
The next term review

This time, you walk in with the answer.

No frantic Sunday night. No conflicting versions. One page that shows exactly how every class is doing — before anyone asks.

Real results

What happens when the system changes.

4 hrs → 20 min

Every Sunday went to compiling marks from twelve separate files. One auto-updating dashboard later, weekly reporting takes twenty minutes.

School administrator

First tracker in 3 weeks

Started having never used an Excel formula. Three weeks in, built her own student performance tracker and presented it to the principal.

Classroom teacher

Earlier interventions

Academic decisions used to rest on guesswork. With a live dashboard, weak students were identified early and support plans were in place before the final exams.

School leadership team

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Your guide

Taught for 17 years. Ran the data desk for 11.

I am not a data trainer who learned about schools. I am a teacher who became the data department — and burned out building everything by hand before I built the systems that gave me my evenings back.

Two Master's degrees PhD candidate UK education award shortlist
Ready when you are

Bring your messiest file.

That is the whole entry requirement. Sixty minutes later, you will be looking at a working dashboard built from it — live.

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