Why This Matters

Reading is one of the most important skills a child will ever learn.
But teachers rarely have the time to sit one-on-one with every student as often as they’d like. Some students quietly fall behind. Others read accurately but don’t understand what they’ve read.

This project asks a simple question:

Can technology help teachers notice more, faster — while keeping human judgment at the centre?

What We’re Building

• A lightweight, teacher-friendly tool that listens as students read aloud
• It highlights pauses, substitutions, skipped words and other reading cues
• It can gently ask the student to retell or explain what they read
• Teachers get insight — not a score — to guide next steps

Why Open Source and Canadian-Hosted?

• Schools and ministries need tools they can trust, adapt, and host within Canada to meet FIPPA privacy requirements
• Open-source means this becomes a public good, not a commercial product
• Institutions can choose cloud hosting or local, school-controlled processing

This is not about replacing teachers.
It’s about giving them time back — and giving every student a chance to be seen.